LISP 2025 Winners and Finalists!

Congratulations to LISP 2025 Creative Writing Winners and Finalists!

LISP 2025 Awards Lists

LISP 2026 is now OPEN! Featuring new prizes and a more compact schedule!

LISP 2025 Winners and Finalists!

Short Story Winner:

Derville Murphy - Artemis

Poetry Winner:

Laurie Bolger - Self Portrait as a Bull

Flash Fiction Winner:

Settit Beyene - The Last of Her Kind

Short Story Finalists:

Oscar Gabriel Adame Galeano - The Hanging Man

Deborah Bennison - You can't stay

Helen Rowlands - I am Shala

Nicky Denovan - Belongings

Ken Cohen - Party Peace

Janet Swinney - The Last Salon

Francisca Naranjo - non-deductibles

Mr David McVey - Poison Darts

An Vu - The Canvas of Darkness

Fabián Alarcón Parada - Hi Mr. Bayly.

DRAGANA KRŠENKOVIĆ BRKOVIĆ  -The Moon in Your Hand

Poetry Finalists:

Evalyn Lee - Among Other Things

Jennifer Watson – Sentence

Mark Bird - Council House Bricks

Rachel Desiree Felix - Han and the Ginkgo’s Whisper

Callanan Harris - Longpoint

Fleur Brown - to the bones

Ogechukwu Udeagha - Quell the doubts

Philippa Bowe - my great-grandfather was a saltwater crocodile

Flash Fiction Finalists:

Anne Thomson - Pig

Bob Thurber - Deluge

Bridget Goldschmidt - Cojimar

Charlie Swailes - Hangover

DC Restaino - Our Swarm a Plague Over the Water

Deborah Bennison - Harbinger

Gill O' Halloran - A Lad Insane

Helen Chambers - Symbiosis

Helen Kennedy - First Death On Shift

James  Woodard - A-No Flash_Fiction.

Keenan Sands - Zen and the Art of Appliance Maintenance

Lizzie Jayne - Clocking Off

Lorinda Boyer - Pretending I Don't Exist

Manu St. Thomas - Gunpowder and Candy

Mr David McVey - One Puff More

Sahara De Ville - Life Lessons from a Spider

Susan Gee -Mindful Photography

Tracey Brown - Bring Out Your Dead