of no more than 2,000 words built around the theme “A Crystal-Clear Crime.”According to a press release, “The competition attracted entries from all over the world …” From those, judges chose the winner and two runners-up.
The first prize of £1,000 goes to Brid Cummings, an Australian fictionist and occupational therapist, for “Halmeoni’s Wisdom,” described as “a dark tale of human trafficking, illegal trade, and a desire for freedom.” The two runners-up are “Teardrops” (“a story about a confession to murder and a need for retribution, born of revenge”), by Jennifer Harvey, a Scottish author based in Denmark; and “Auld Bride” (“about a lost soul returning to the island of her birth, where more than a new job awaits her”), by Judith O’Reilly, a Northumberland-based former political producer with BBC and ITN and a Sunday Times contributor.
“The overall winning entry,” explains that same new media alert, “will be published in the May issue of Scottish Field magazine (on shelf Friday 8th April). The runners’-up stories will also be published from 8th April online on Scottish Field magazine’s website ... You will also be able to read the winning story and the runners-up stories on the Glencairn Glass website ...from Monday 11th April.”
There were three judges of this inaugural short-story contest: Deborah Masson, author of Hold Your Tongue, the 2020 winner of the Bloody Scotland Debut Crime Novel of the Year award; Peter Ranscombe, Scottish Field’s longtime drinks columnist and author of the historical thriller Hare (2014); and Gordon Brown, Glencairn’s marketing director, who pens crime thrillers under the pseudonym Morgan Cry.
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