Latest Dark Tales Contest Winners

Latest Result (December 31st deadline)
Over My Dead Body by Valentine Williams
Send in the Clowns by Stef Hall
Under the Canopy by Gordon Speed

You can read Valentine's story In the Penguin Colony in Dark Tales: Volume XIII.
Stef and Gordon are to be published in Dark Tales for the first time.



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Here is a comprehensive list of shortlisted and winning stories from Dark Tales short story competitions during 2009:


Abaddon 
by Sen Threadgold
Castillian Twilight by Michael J. Howe
Billy Boys by Amanda McAleese

Slightly Higher Status by Carl Chrystan

After the Party by Philip Parkin
The Whole World to Swim In by Nemone Thornes
Missed Call by D Gavin Guddi

The Sunflower Seed Man by Priya Sharma
Priya Sharma is a Dark Tales veteran (you can read The Lady, Eve in
Volume 10 and Screaming Purple Psychosis in Issue 9).
The Rock by Rachel Amphlett
Mrs Ely by Andrew Stockton
White by Richard Anthony
The Scoop by Lesley Grint
Hands in Healing by Jean Thewlis
The Beekeeper by Christina Derbyshire
In Munro House by James Ward
The House on Melton Street by Stef Hall
Fifty One by Chris Barnham
The Wraiths of Winter by Kevin Chant 
Seventeen Mouths, None to Feed by Nemone Thornes

Descension by Steven Maxwell
The Ordinary Course of Events by Michael Law
A Presence in the Spring by Graham Andrews

The Head Gardener by Bruce Currie
The Puddle by Richard Smith
The Illustrated Dreams of the Ancestors by Georgina Bruce
Read Georgina's Touch, Typing in Dark Tales: Volume XIV.
The Paper Garden by Sally Quilford
Indefinity by Richard Findlay
Joe's Pet Store by Austin Hackney
Mira by Iain Paton
Lullaby by Susan Everett
Die Küche by Benjamin Mitchell
A Loving Son by Iain Grant
Sporefall by Jean Dorricott
Seized by Nymphs by Diane Waters
The Wolf Runs in the Barley by Kate Measom
Be Seeing You by Keith Melton
The Existence of Purple by Shirley Golden
Blackout by Paul Johnson-Jovanovic
Interaction by Katherine Spink
The Red Vortex by Priya Sharma