Penned

Penned Micro-fiction Writing Competition: A story, in exactly 50 words

Why ‘Penned’? We love a play on words, and ‘penned’ has a lovely double-meaning for our purposes. Penned means both ‘to have written’ (‘I penned this short fiction’), and to be limited, or ‘penned in’.  

WINNERS OF PAST MICRO-FICTION WRITING COMPETITIONS


2023

 

JUDGES’ CHOICE

POPULAR VOTE

   

2022

 

JUDGES’ CHOICE

POPULAR VOTE

2022 SumitraSingam 2022 AdrianWeeks
2022 Lilly B 2022 Lilly B
2022 AllisonM 2022 LucyB
   

2021

 

JUDGES’ CHOICE

POPULAR VOTE

2021 KatharineMolloy 2021 SusanValenta
2021 Maya 2021 Charlotte
   

2020

JUDGES’ CHOICE Top three stories

2020 DaniNetherclift 2020 Joe Novella
2020 ChristineGordon