SaveAs Writers' International Writing Competition 2022
Myth
Celebrating the centenary of the publication of James Joyce’s Ulysses
SaveAs Writers invite entries of poetry and prose on the theme of ‘myth’
Results:
Poetry
First place: The Canterbury Christ Church University Poetry Prize, Bufo Bufo - Jack Andrew Lenton
Second place: Cottonwood Sagas & Horse Latitudes - Mara Adamitz Scrupe (USA)
Third place: In the Market Café - Mike Farren
Judges report
Prose
First place: The Canterbury Festival Fiction Prize, Three Sisters - Lizzy Lister
Second place: Labours of Joe - D.S. Kastle (Greece)
Third place: Pruning Shears – Phoebe Bush
Honourable mention to Renegade - Geralyn Pinto (India)
Judges report
Poetry shortlist
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Scribbling Sisyphus - Martin Bennett (Italy)
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Storm - Rosa Beuzeval
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Butterfly Blood - Mike Farren
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In the Market Café - Mike Farren
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Bufo Bufo - Jack Andrew Lenton
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Melted Ice - Lisa Lopresti
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Porpoise - Max Mulgrew
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Pandora - Diane Myers
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Cottonwood Sagas & Horse Latitudes - Mara Adamitz Scrupe (USA)
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The Worst job in the Heavens - Phil Tuffin
Poetry longlist
- Scribbling Sisyphus - Martin Bennett (Italy)
- Storm - Rosa Beuzeval
- Dice – Jennie Byrne
- Minotauromachy- Claire Cox
- Embla – Marilyn Donovan
- Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir takes Thorstein Eiriksson’s Body back to Greenland – Marilyn Donovan
- Lost for Words-Roger Elkin
- Aphrodite, unobserved- Jen Emery
- Butterfly Blood - Mike Farren
- In the Market Café - Mike Farren
- The Lost Encounter- Seth Finnegan
- The Athena Legacy- Oz Hardwick
- Like that Dude on Lemons – John Kelly
- Bufo Bufo - Jack Andrew Lenton
- Melted Ice - Lisa Lopresti
- Distressed Finish – Jill Munro
- Porpoise - Max Mulgrew
- Pandora - Diane Myers
- Elegy to the Ash – Marion Oxley
- Merkind – Mark Rowan
- Cottonwood Sagas & Horse Latitudes - Mara Adamitz Scrupe (USA)
- The Physics of it- Steven Taylor
- The Worst job in the Heavens - Phil Tuffin
Prose shortlist
- Rose and the Daemons – Isobel Bond
- Pruning Shears – Phoebe Bush
- Red Hair and Fishing – Neil Foster
- The Wrong Gods - Ellen Freeman
- Water Baby – Maggie Holman (The Netherlands)
- Labours of Joe - D.S. Kastle (Greece)
- Three Sisters - Lizzy Lister
- Aequidiale - Jay McKenzie.
- The End of War- Patrick O’ Brien (Ireland)
- Renegade - Geralyn Pinto (India)
- The Boy Merlin - Fil Reid
- The Threesome – a sketch for three voices – Greta Ross
- Nothing Like Ice Cream during Ragnarok - Katy Wimhurst
Prose longlist
- The Myth of Tarroo-Ushety - Isabella Barton
- Hersch McCleese and the Terror of the Nemea Neighbourhood Association -
- Harley Bernard (Canada)
- Rose and the Daemons – Isobel Bond
- Pruning Shears – Phoebe Bush
- The Handmaidens - Marie Eriksson (Sweden)
- The Eye of Myth – Ellen Evers
- Red Hair and Fishing – Neil Foster
- The Auspicious Mrs Hunter- Mary Francis (New Zealand)
- The Wrong Gods - Ellen Freeman
- Persephone in Later Life – Frances Gapper
- Water Baby – Maggie Holman (The Netherlands)
- Labours of Joe - D.S. Kastle (Greece)
- The Emporium of All Things Lost and Found, and Lost Again - Mark A. King
- Recovery- Gillian Laker
- Three Sisters - Lizzy Lister
- Aequidiale - Jay McKenzie
- The Saga of Yarg - David McVey
- Somewhere Warm for the Winter - Val Melhop (New Zealand)
- Pan and Psyche – Jane Montague
- The End of War- Patrick O’ Brien (Ireland)
- Exhibit M – Susan O’ Connor
- Renegade - Geralyn Pinto (India)
- The Boy Merlin - Fil Reid
- The Seventh Magpie- Greta Ross
- The Threesome – a sketch for three voices – Greta Ross
- Theseus Inn - Owen Townend
- The Princess of Inchcleith – Greg Williamson
- Nothing Like Ice Cream during Ragnarok - Katy Wimhurst
- Danae and her child – Ryn Winstanley
Deadline
October 31st 2022 (Now closed)
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