The Rhys Davies Competition
2009 Rhys Davies Short Story Competition Winners
Click on the links below for a biography of each winner.
1st Prize Winner:
Siân Preece from Cardiff for her story Getting Up
(Click on the link above to read Getting Up in full)
Equal Runners-up:
Angela Graham from Cardiff for her story Life-Task
Craig Hawes from Briton Ferry for his story Zeina
Clementine Hollister from Newcastle Upon Tyne for her story July 1995
Robert Hunt from Caerphilly for his story Things in their Season
Mike Jenkins from Merthyr Tydfil for his story Members of the jury, what is your verdict?
Sam Kemp from Blackwood for her story If Those Who Have Plenty…
Dave Lewis from Pontypridd for his story Onions
Joâo Morais from Cardiff for his story The Mary
Jeb Loy Nichols from Welshpool for his story Sand
Sarah Wishart from London for her story Dammed
Click here to read the Judges' Adjudication
The Judges
Niall Griffiths was born in Liverpool in 1966 and has lived in Aberystwyth for many years. He is the author of several novels including Stump (Jonathan Cape, 2003) which won the Wales Book of the Year Award in 2004. Niall has also published three non-fiction books and more short stories, articles, reviews, radio plays and travel pieces than he cares to count.
Stevie Davies is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a Fellow of the Welsh Academy and Director of Creative Writing at the University of Wales Swansea. She is a literary critic, historian and novelist. Her novels have been long-listed for the Booker and Orange Prizes, and The Element of Water (Women’s Press, 2001) won the Wales Book of the Year Award in 2002.
Filter Judge:
Jon Gower is a freelance radio and television producer. His books include An Island Called Smith (Gomer, 2001) - about a disappearing island in Chesapeake Bay - and a collection of short stories entitled Big Fish (Gwasg Carreg Gwalch, 2000). Jon won the short story competition at the 2008 National Eisteddfod and his first Welsh-language novel, Dala'r Llanw, was published by Gomer in 2009.