The collection with the short listed stories of our 9th eyelands international short story contest is now available in Greek bookshops (also directly through Strange Days Books) and all over the world via amazon.com.
The 9th International Short Story Contest's theme was Round Midnight and as always this is also the collection's title with a cover that made by Strangeland's team.
This year was the first time that the grand prize went to Africa thanks to the story ''Marvin
Baxter’s Background Music'' by Javi
Reddy / South Africa who won the first prize.
There were four more prizes (by submission order) : Midnight
shadows -David McVey /United Kingdom
At Last,
Goodbye -Wendy Craig /New
Zealand
The
Banshee’s Sister - E.
F. S. Byrne/ Spain
Crying all
the way to the bank - Karen Keeley / Canada
And the shortlisted stories:
Belonging -
Judith Diamond/ USA
One shot -
David Butler /Ireland
Memories
always start around midnight - Suzanne Elvidge/United Kingdom Huggas
-Mark Perfect/United
Kingdom
Red Beauty
or simply Dear - Christina Demertsidou /Greece
Hunter-
Mariam Syrengelas /Greece
Bouzouki
Magic," – Diane R. Ransdell /USA
5 2 12 -
Charles Osborne/United
KingdomThe black
wedding dress - Ilona
krueger/Australia
The Midnight
Show - Charles Venable/USA
Rick, the
Drummer is No More - Alan Kennedy/Spain
On the
Lookout for Bo - Kimberly Stammen /USA
Katy’s
Penance - David Mackinnon/United Kingdom
Undisclosed
Desires – Efi P./Holland
Blue Moon -
Rae Whitney/USA
When the
bikers blow into town - Regi Claire/United Kingdom
You can read them all in ROUND MIDNIGHT COLLECTION
from strange days books
