The winners and runners up for the 2016 SXB Write A Story Competition were announced at the Awards Ceremony, which was held at the Munsterhof in Strasbourg on Friday, April 28, at 6:30 p.m. As in previous years, the winners read their stories to the audience.
Winners in each category
To read each winning story, simply click on its title below.
Under 18, non-native speaker
- WINNER — “Saturday” by Anne CARBIENER
- RUNNER-UP —“The Artist” by Joshua DRANESAS
Under 18, native speaker
- WINNER — “The chipper flipper and the civil cynic save Sunnydale – sort of” by Hannah SMITH
- RUNNER-UP — “Acid Rain” by Estelle BRANNAN
18 and over, non-native speaker
- WINNER — “Do Panic. An Island Survival Guide” by Marlene JÄGER
- RUNNER-UP — “The End” by Jasmin HEISING
18 and over, native speaker
- WINNER — “Unexplored Territory” by Mary GORMAN
- RUNNER-UP — “The Tick” by Mike WRAITH
The Short-listed Stories
The Competition Committee and the judges would like to congratulate all 72 writers who entered this year’s 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 Beauty and the Moon” by Timothe DUNN
- “The One Sitting There” by Emilie FRITSCH
- “Into the Blue” by Mathilde KOCH
- “Moon Shadow” by Marine SABOURIN — RUNNER-UP
- “Path to Heaven” by Gaspar ZIMBREK TURKOVIC — WINNER
Under 18, native speaker
- “Do you want to see?” by Ciara NAGLE
- “Last Call” by Alice NEVILLE
- “Evil Innocent Beauty” by Felix OVEY — RUNNER-UP
- “War Games” by Masha VUCINIC WESTERVEEN
- “Musings on the White Throne” by Liam WRIGHT — WINNER
18 and over, non-native speaker
- “Love Sick” by Thobias BERGMANN — RUNNER-UP
- “A Brief Airplane Encounter” by Nicolas DOUCET — WINNER
- “New Shoes” by Korinna NAGY
- “Brandbreaking” by Andrei Ilie POPESCU
- “Screen of Smoke” by Tea de ROUGEMONT
18 and over, native speaker
- “Little Christmas” by Marise BOYLAN — RUNNER-UP
- “Jade Bracelet” by Mary GORMAN
- “Blue Cardigan, Pink Tights by John QUINN — WINNER
- “Watching Tennis in Alsace” by Paul SUAZO
- “Where did it all go wrong Tony Blair?” by Mike WRAITH