FLYING HIGH
The winners of
the 1993 Ian St James Awards
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Figure of Eight © Min Dinning 1993; The Spirit of the Times © Jude Jones 1993; Drawing from the Figure © Cynthia Chapman 1993; Berlin Story © Philip Sealey 1993; Karmic Mothers – Fact or Fiction? © Kate Atkinson 1993; The House with the Horse and the Blue Canoe © Cheryl Nyland-Littig 1993; The Wee Man © Lorraine Lorimer 1993; The Birthday Treat © Linda Pitt 1993; The Olive Tree © Hilary Waters 1993; Black Lizzie Black ©Jenny Maguire 1993; Good Neighbours © Stephanie Egerton 1993; Nobody We Know © Carey Jane Hardy 1993; Moira Flaherty ©Juliet McCarthy 1993; Richard Remembered © Leonard Tyler 1993; Someone to See You © Isa Moynihan 1993; Northern Light, Southern Comfort © Sheila Kelley 1993
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Contents
Min Dinning
Jude Jones
Cynthia Chapman
Philip Sealey
KARMIC MOTHERS – FACT OR FICTION?
Kate Atkinson
THE HOUSE WITH THE HORSE AND THE BLUE CANOE
Cheryl Nyland-Littig
Lorraine Lorimer
Linda Pitt
Hilary Waters
James Maguire
Stephanie Egerton
Carey Jane Hardy
Juliet McCarthy
Leonard Tyler
Isa Moynihan
NORTHERN LIGHT, SOUTHERN COMFORT
Sheila Kelley
The sixteen stories that you are about to read emerged from over three and a half thousand entries for this year’s Ian St James Awards.
There have been several new developments in the last twelve months: the introduction of a shorter category of fiction under five thousand words alongside the established category of up to ten thousand words; for the first time this year, we opened our doors to writers in the English language from outside these shores and this volume contains stories by writers from New Zealand and the United States; the launch of Acclaim, a bimonthly magazine featuring stories by shortlisted writers in these Awards. Acclaim will publish sixty-four stories in six issues and include writers from Namibia and South Africa. All the activities associated with these Awards are co-ordinated at The New Writers’ Club. In the summer, the Club organized its first Short Story Workshop as part of the 9th Birmingham Readers and Writers Festival. There will be more to come.
Every writer who enters the Ian St James Awards – and they have to be over eighteen without a published work of full-length fiction to their name – receives an appraisal of their work. The success of this operation can be measured by the receipt at The New Writers’ Club of only eight letters consigning (a few of) our readers to the darkest depths. Not a bad ratio from such a large entry.