After each reading all 65 entries to the SXB Write A Story Competition, the three judges began the challenging task of selecting the 20 short-listed stories and then determining the winners and runners-up in each of the four categories.
After a months’ deliberation, the judges provided the short-list to the Competition Committee, who announced the 20 short-listed stories to the public. The winners and runners-up, however, were kept under wraps until the first-ever Awards Ceremony of the SXB Write A Story Competition, which was held on April 15, 2014, at the Librairie Kléber in Strasbourg.
At the ceremony, before an audience of 100-plus attendees, the judges announced the following winners and runners-up in each category.
Winners and runners-up in each category
To read each winning story, simply click on its title.
Under 18, non-native speaker
- WINNER — “RUN” by Maylandie Kuntz
- RUNNER-UP — “The Shy Boy from Oran” by Deborah Celiento
Under 18, native speaker
- WINNER — “When Curiosity Almost Killed Kat” by Alice Neville
- RUNNER-UP — “The Exchange” by Naomi Littolff
18 and over, non-native speaker
- WINNER— “The Messenger” by Thobias Bergmann
- RUNNER-UP — “Somewhere East” by Stephanie Wildeshaus
18 and over, native speaker
- WINNER — “Stained” by Maria Clevy
- RUNNER-UP — “Death is Awaiting You” by Mark Neville
The Short-listed Stories
The Competition Committee and the judges would like to congratulate all 65 writers who entered this years’ competition, especially the short-listed writers listed below, for their contribution in making this first effort a success.
(in alphabetical order by writer)
Under 18, non-native speaker
- “The Shy Boy from Oran” by Deborah Celiento
- “Your Eyes” by Emilie Dauphine
- “Run” by Maylandie Kuntz
- “No Wonder in Land” by Inès Marzouk
- “When the Pool Becomes Home” by Alexia Muresan
Under 18, native speaker
- “Short Story” by Valerie Fieberg
- “The Exchange” by Naomi Littolff
- “When Curiosity Almost Killed Kat” by Alice Neville
- “The Secrets of the Night” by Matteo Righi
- “The Mourning of the Young” by Fergal Wraith
Eighteen and over, non-native speaker
- “The Messenger” by Thobias Bergmann
- “The Pen” by Snezana Jacevski
- “Bee Me!” by Stephanie Kovacs
- “Help” by Pierre Thierry
- “Somewhere East” by Stephanie Wildeshaus
Eighteen and over, native speaker
- “Man and his Daughters” by Angela Brewer
- “Stained” by Maria Clevy
- “Death is Awaiting You” by Mark Neville
- “Surfin’ the Net” by Bob Taylor
- “Reflections” by Theo Wels