Nine to Noon Short Story Competition 2022 from Short Stories

In 2022 Nine to Noon on RNZ ran a Short Story Competition which generated a huge response with hundreds of entries received. After the massive process of reading all the stories entered, a shortlist of one hundred stories was drawn up and these stories were dispatched to the judges Rebecca K Reilly and Harry Ricketts. After the judge's deliberations, five winners were selected.

Choose Your Wave by Mark Curragh

21 Nov 2022

A story exploring a teenage boy on a surfing trip to the west coast with a friend and his older brother. Audio

Listen duration 14:13
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Collateral Damage by Barbara Else

21 Nov 2022

Sophie finds herself reluctantly drawn into competitive games between two blokey teachers. Audio

Listen duration 12:39
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Jamals Peach by Jacqui Wood

21 Nov 2022

An eight year old girl gets cajoled into helping Jamal stealing the next door neighbours perfect peach. Audio

Listen duration 10:55
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Blood Flowers by Sionainn Mentor-King

21 Nov 2022

Perfect days, in fiction, seldom end up turning out to be quite so perfect. Audio

Listen duration 13:30
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On Sundays by Shadi Salehpour

21 Nov 2022

What does it take for a refugee family to leave everything they know, cross the ocean and start a new life with nothing in a new and very foreign land? Audio

Listen duration 12:51
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Nine to Noon Short Story Competition 2022

Choose Your Wave by Mark Curragh

Collateral Damage by Barbara Else

Jamals Peach by Jacqui Wood

Blood Flowers by Sionainn Mentor-King

On Sundays by Shadi Salehpour