Tales from the Sydney Hammond Memorial Short Story Competition 2021.
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Genre: Fiction | Short Story Competition Winners
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This year’s Sydney Hammond Memorial Short Story competition yielded 203 entries, and forty seven winning short stories, that spoke about the theme “courage”. Judges were spoilt for choice and thank all entrants for the excellent stories offered.
The collective stories in Jump: The Time is Now offer a cultural representation of the human experience of 2020/2021.
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Courage
Hawkeye Director, Carolyn Martinez said she commended all 203 entrants because it takes a great deal of courage to send those agonised-over stories out into the world to be judged by others.
Entries did not disappoint our judges who were again spoilt for choice. With covid the relentless cloud of 2021, the story of courage is one most readers will easily relate to.
Stories in Jump: The time is now
- Wildlife by N. M. Taylor, Victoria, Australia
- Accept, Deal, Repeat by Helen Booth, Victoria, Australia – Short-listed (Open)
- When the Grass was White by M. S. Bhatia, South Australia
- The Giant Killer by Andrea Campbell, Victoria, Australia
- Dirty Bastard by Pamela Baker, Victoria, Australia – Short-listed (Open)
- Time Machine by Dienece Darling, Victoria, Australia
- Black and Blue by Riley Walter, South Australia
- Deadly Alliance by Jo Skinner, Queensland, Australia
- Cardamom Coffee by Andrey Panevin, Tasmania, Australia
- Cratered by T. L. Ransome, United States – Short-listed (Open)
- Five to Ten by Paul Blanksby, New South Wales, Australia – Short-listed (Open)
- A Room in Time by Lilian Grace, Queensland, Australia
- Becoming by Maddison Greer, Victoria, Australia
- Hedwig Eva by Kathryne Aye, United States
- Betrayal by Gillian Brown, France – Short-listed (Open)
- The Visitor by Georgina Horsburgh, New South Wales, Australia
- Transatlanicism by Elaine Mead, Tasmania, Australia
- Greenthing by Deborah Huff-Horwood, ACT, Australia
- Character Actor by Ben F. Blitzer, Western Australia
- Brown Beret Man by Lyndal Weightman, Daglish, Western Australia
- Gold Rush by Zachary Pryor, Victoria, Australia – Short-listed (Open)
- The Unfurling of Frances Simmons by Jackie Morris, Great Britain
- A Lesson in Life by Helen Manias, Queensland, Australia
- A Courageous Boy by Mira Nguyen, New South Wales, Australia (junior entrant)
- The Gully by Rebecca Douglas, South Australia
- Background Noise by Ross van Brink, Victoria, Australia
- 6th of September 2018 by Mulay Sangeeta, Great Britain – Short-listed (Open)
- Lest We Forget by Aimee Sargent, Western Australia
- Another World by Yannis Ho, New South Wales (junior entrant)
- Dumpster Zone by Jane Turner Goldsmith, South Australia – Short-listed (Open)
- The Treehouse by Sarah Marchant, Western Australia
- Brad and Janet by Karen Lethlean, New South Wales, Australia
- Faithy’s Shillelagh by Kathleen Hastings, Queensland, Australia – Short-listed (Open)
- Fitting In by Cynthia Bolton, Queensland, Australia
- Courageous Carl by Rosalie Enstrom, Queensland, Australia
- Courage by Rosalie Enstrom, Queensland, Australia
- 21 Days by Georgios Goris, Victoria, Australia
- Ailish and the Phoneline by Bridget Hertaeg, Victoria, Australia
- Cover Talk by Maggie Veness, Tasmania, Australia – Short-listed (Open)
- A Primordial Struggle by Daniel Yuen, New South Wales, Australia
- The Dragon Egg by Owen Huang, 11-years-old, New South Wales, Australia
- One Boy, One Planet by Sol Zivkovic-Kennedy, 11-years-old, South Australia
- Bravery is Not Blind by Artemis Langlois-Euripides, 14-years-old, Western Australia – Short-listed (Junior)
- The Last Teacher in Fairfield by Charlotte He, 9-years-old, New South Wales, Australia – Short-listed (Junior)
- Curing Kanser by Olivia Pryor, 12-years-old, New South Wales, Australia
- The Storm We All Go Through by Georgia Fenwick, New South Wales, Australia
- Mouse Holes by Devika Warrier, 10-years-old, New South Wales, Australia – Short-listed (Junior)
Another big congratulations to the Winners of the Sydney Hammond Memorial Short Story Competition!
WINNER: Gold Rush by Zachary Pryor (Open Category)
WINNER: The Last Teacher in Fairfield by Charlotte He (Junior Category)
2021 competition winner: Zachary Pryor (Open Category) 2021 competition winner: Charlotte He (Junior Category)
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Further News on the Sydney Hammond Memorial Short Story Competition 2022:
- Read the Long-List Announcement here.
- Read the Winners’ Announcement here.
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3 comments to “Jump: The Time is Now”
Helen Manias - May 4, 2022
Hi Carolyn, Just wanted to say a huge thank you for my copy of Jump! It’s been a thrill to read all the wonderful stories, and to see my story in print – thank you so much!
Carolyn Martinez - May 5, 2022
Thank you Helen. One of my favourite parts of our job is enjoying winners’ reactions. We appreciate you contacting us! Your terrific story deserved its place in the anthology. All the best with your future writing.
Gillian Brown - May 16, 2022
I just wanted to let you know that my copy of ‘Jump’ arrived. It’s brilliant and I’m enjoying reading all the other stories and very chuffed to have my own story ‘Betrayal’ in there. Thank you! Best wishes,