Stringybark Open Short Story Award 2024
CLOSED
The Stringybark Humorous Short Fiction Award
2013
THIRD PRIZE
Windows
by
Chris Ringrose
SECOND PRIZE
God with an i
by
Harold Malley
FIRST PRIZE
The Very End of the Affair
by
Martin Lindsay
When my brother and I started belting each other in the testicles with sticks, as young Aussie males are destined to do, my mother would shout “Stop hitting each other in the Googlies.” Now, obviously, she meant ‘goolies’, since this is the well-known slang term for testicles. But she was a new Australian and, as mentioned, wielded linguistic fabrications like a machete in a crowded elevator.
— From Learning the Spin by Peter Court
Twenty-seven award-winning short stories from the Stringybark Humorous Short Fiction Awards will make you smile, snigger and guffaw. Navigate your way through a collection of clever and witty tales, via celebrity chefs, carpet snakes, iGods and other bizarre and not so bizarre plots to the very end of the affair.
HIGHLY COMMENDED
The Conquering Powers of Vegemite — John Ahern • Not Always the Bridesmaid — Desley Allen • Yes… yes… yes… — Louise S Allen • Lady Keep Your Hat on — Stephen Atkinson • I’ve had a Terrible Day — Stephen Atkinson • The Bard and the Bodies — Carmel Bendon • Tech-Know — Holly Bruce • The Many Roads to Joy — David Campbell • Classroom Heat — Catherine Cooper • A Weekend to Remember — Alan Cornell • Learning the Spin — Peter Court • A Letter to Lettuce — Chris Curtis • Lost Meditations — Wendy Gunthorpe • Above and Beyond the Call — Rusty Hunt • Fifty Shades of Green — Lorraine Jones • Life Changes — K.C. Lane • Vampire of Happiness — Harold Mally • The Slop — Harold Mally • That’s Inappropriate — Sarah Poloski • The Trouble with Patrick — Peter Rondel • Zippedy-Do-Dah — Barbara Stackpoole • The Job Interview — Susan K Sutherland • Fantasy Hotel — Rita Swain • His Perfect Obituary — Roger Wagstaff
Competition Closed: 24th November 2012
180 entries. $770 in prizes.
Judges: Margie Perkins, Judy Brooker, Grahame Krisenthal and David Vernon
Editor: David Vernon
Proof-reader: Jeanette Vernon
Cover designer: David Vernon
One Cover photographer: Justin Capolongo
Australian printer: Kainos Print (Canberra/Sydney)
27 published stories. One e-book and printed anthology, The Very End of the Affair.
edited by David Vernon, e-book — and paperback, Stringybark Publishing,
ISBN: 9781301589449
$14.95 includes postage within Australia. Discounts for multiple purchases.
Purchase E-book ($3.95 AUD)
