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Contents

Introduction

Judges’ Profiles

1st Prize: Beyond the Blackout Curtain — Elizabeth Jane

2nd Prize: Alone in Bloemfontein — Mary Teague

3rd Prize: Malka — Inna Gertsberg

Last Man Standing — John V Breen

The Sand Doll — Andrew Bridgmont

Lee Ferrer’s Brother — Sara Browning

The Piano — Nino Caputo

End-of-Life Liaison — Ruth Davis

Old Fires — Tessa Edmondson

With Thy Fire Divine — Joanne Fox

Upwards, and Upwards, and Upwards — Andrew Graham

Pictures in the Dust — Craig Hawes

That Kind of Man — Jessie Ledbetter

One in the Eye for Chance — A.R. Petersen

The Final Whistle — Nick Rawlinson

The Casket Maker — Eira Reed

The Whiteladies Picture House — Sarah Regan

Second Degree — Marli Roode

Rule of Thumb — Amy Shuckburgh