'Booboo' wins THIRD PRIZE in the Retreat West Short Story Competition

Delighted that my story ‘Booboo’ has won THIRD PRIZE in the 2020 Retreat West Short Story Competition. That’s £150 plus a place in their forthcoming print anthology. It’s all here.

This is what judge Peter Jordan had to say about ‘Booboo’ and his decision to award it Third Prize -

I chose ‘Booboo’ because the story is possibly the simplest with regards to both prose and story. In many ways ‘Booboo’ is the perfect template for a short story. Start late, leave early. Keep it simple. Have the surface story allude to bigger things — in this case, the mother’s new partner and how that affects her young daughter.