London Independent Story Prize 3rd Round 2024 Winners and Finalists!

London Independent Story Prize 3rd Round 2024 Winners and Finalists!

The quantity of high-quality writing has never been greater!

While congratulating our selected writers, we recognise the subjectivity of competitions. Please do not be disheartened if your work is not on the list; continue editing and sending it out into the world.

We cherished every moment of this challenging selection process as we were privileged to read remarkable stories and poems. We are eager to read the revised version of your stories, as well as your new work!

London Independent Story Prize 3rd Round 2024 Winners

Short Story Winner - The Thaw - Mary Ethna Black

Poetry Winner - The Silver Grey - Lizzie Holden

Flash Fiction Winner - Memories of a Tsunami Unseen - Molly Lanzarotta

LISP 2024 3RD ROUND SHORT STORY FINALISTS

Always Her Best Girls - Jean Roarty

Aroha - Anne Wilkins

The Roots of Things - Erini Loucaides

Table for Four - Dr Sophia T Skyers

Where the Light Had Once Been - Joe Wedgbury

Short Circuit - Koushik Banerjea

Salt - Perdita Stott

Malakai Can't See the Moon - Helen Kennedy

We'll Pay and We'll Go - Charlie Kite

Selva - Aneeta Sundararaj

LISP 2024 3RD ROUND POETRY FINALISTS

The Quiet Pleasure of Bathing Your Lungs - Christian Ward

Grief Across Realities – Kate Hawkes

Homeward Run - Peter Rizzardini

Slippers - TC Ferrers

St Enoch - Catherine Edwards

LISP 2024 Anthology Selection Finalists for submissions in 2024 (including all three rounds):

Silent Cry - Ali Seegar

A First Date - Robin Darker

Holding the Brevity - Fiona Dignan

After the Storm - Libby Grace Chandler

Sister, I need You - Jocelyn Watson

Past Sense - Herbert L. Colston

Combustion Reaction Zone - Libby Grace Chandler

LISP 2024 3RD ROUND FLASH FICTION FINALISTS

Alpha - Guy Arnold

The Baby Screams - Caitlin Magnall-Kearns

That Afternoon - Deborah Cleland-Harris

Nwt. The Woman who Holds All Things on the Last Day in the World.

A la table - Lisa Rebert

Auf Wiedersehen, Pet - Carol Caffrey

Before Calluses - Thomas Boone

Crossing the Ruse-i-con - Seán McNicholl

Flight of Fancy - Jane Alayne Broughton

Like Childhood, Like Magic, Like Memory - Dorothy Rice

Reunion - Mary Gilonne

The Healing Road - Joanna Miller

The Soloist - Gary Finnegan

When the Ink Dries On Your Life Story - Jaime Gill