Results of the 2024 Rolys Competition

Here are the winning and highly commended entries in the 2024 Roly Sussex Short Story Competition.

To read a story click on its title. To read the notes, click on “Judges’ notes”.

 

Open Division

Equal First Prize

Roxeena Bidgood (Qld)

Music Played in a Cafe

Judges’ notes

Equal First Prize

Paulette Gittons (Vic)

Blue Is the Limit

Judges’ notes

Highly Commended

Daniel Fallon (Qld)

Howl

Judges’ notes

Highly Commended

Rachel Bowman (Qld)

Help for Kitty Hopkins’ Nerves

Withdrawn from publication at author’s request

Judges’ notes

Secondary School Division

First Prize

Isaac Round

Groves Christian College (Qld)

An Angel

Judges’ notes

Second Prize

Lori Adam

Downlands College (Qld)

Frontlines of War

Judges’ notes

Highly Commended

Isabella Van Heerden

Southport Secondary Independent School (Qld)

A Thousand Yards

Judges’ notes

Highly Commended

Jiaying Luo

Qld Academy for Science, Mathematics and Technology

Ouroboros

Judges’ notes

 

Click here to view the winning entries from 2023.

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