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

1. Scribbling Sisyphus - Martin Bennett (Italy)

2. Storm - Rosa Beuzeval

3. Butterfly Blood - Mike Farren

4. In the Market Café - Mike Farren

5. Bufo Bufo - Jack Andrew Lenton

6. Melted Ice - Lisa Lopresti

7. Porpoise - Max Mulgrew

8. Pandora - Diane Myers

9. Cottonwood Sagas & Horse Latitudes - Mara Adamitz Scrupe (USA)

10. The Worst job in the Heavens - Phil Tuffin

Poetry longlist

1. Scribbling Sisyphus - Martin Bennett (Italy)
2. Storm - Rosa Beuzeval
3. Dice – Jennie Byrne
4. Minotauromachy- Claire Cox
5. Embla – Marilyn Donovan
6. Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir takes Thorstein Eiriksson’s Body back to Greenland – Marilyn Donovan
7. Lost for Words-Roger Elkin
8. Aphrodite, unobserved- Jen Emery
9. Butterfly Blood - Mike Farren
10. In the Market Café - Mike Farren
11. The Lost Encounter- Seth Finnegan
12. The Athena Legacy- Oz Hardwick
13. Like that Dude on Lemons – John Kelly
14. Bufo Bufo - Jack Andrew Lenton
    
15. Melted Ice - Lisa Lopresti
16. Distressed Finish – Jill Munro
17. Porpoise - Max Mulgrew
18. Pandora - Diane Myers
19. Elegy to the Ash – Marion Oxley
20. Merkind – Mark Rowan
    
21. Cottonwood Sagas & Horse Latitudes - Mara Adamitz Scrupe (USA)
22. The Physics of it- Steven Taylor
23. The Worst job in the Heavens - Phil Tuffin

Prose shortlist

1. Rose and the Daemons – Isobel Bond
2. Pruning Shears – Phoebe Bush
3. Red Hair and Fishing – Neil Foster
4. The Wrong Gods - Ellen Freeman
5. Water Baby – Maggie Holman (The Netherlands)
6. Labours of Joe - D.S. Kastle (Greece)
7. Three Sisters - Lizzy Lister
   
8. Aequidiale - Jay McKenzie.
9. The End of War- Patrick O’ Brien (Ireland)
10. Renegade - Geralyn Pinto (India)
    
11. The Boy Merlin - Fil Reid
    
12. The Threesome – a sketch for three voices – Greta Ross
13. Nothing Like Ice Cream during Ragnarok - Katy Wimhurst

Prose longlist

1. The Myth of Tarroo-Ushety  - Isabella Barton
2. Hersch McCleese and the Terror of the Nemea Neighbourhood Association -
3. Harley Bernard (Canada)
4. Rose and the Daemons – Isobel Bond
   
5. Pruning Shears – Phoebe Bush
6. The Handmaidens - Marie Eriksson (Sweden)
7. The Eye of Myth – Ellen Evers
8. Red Hair and Fishing – Neil Foster
9. The Auspicious Mrs Hunter- Mary Francis (New Zealand)
10. The Wrong Gods - Ellen Freeman
11. Persephone in Later Life – Frances Gapper
12. Water Baby – Maggie Holman (The Netherlands)
    
13. Labours of Joe - D.S. Kastle (Greece)
14. The Emporium of All Things Lost and Found, and Lost Again - Mark A. King
15. Recovery- Gillian Laker
16. Three Sisters - Lizzy Lister
17. Aequidiale - Jay McKenzie
    
18. The Saga of Yarg - David McVey
19. Somewhere Warm for the Winter - Val Melhop (New Zealand)
20. Pan and Psyche – Jane Montague
21. The End of War- Patrick O’ Brien (Ireland)
    
22. Exhibit M – Susan O’ Connor
23. Renegade - Geralyn Pinto (India)
24. The Boy Merlin - Fil Reid
25. The Seventh Magpie- Greta Ross
26. The Threesome – a sketch for three voices – Greta Ross
    
27. Theseus Inn - Owen Townend
28. The Princess of Inchcleith – Greg Williamson
29. Nothing Like Ice Cream during Ragnarok - Katy Wimhurst
30. Danae and her child – Ryn Winstanley

Deadline

October 31st 2022 (Now closed)

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