Steph's Storyville: Recent Episodes
Molly Doitt
This story won the January 2024 monthly micro competition from Retreat West. The theme was bark.
Long listed for walk-listen and create. With the theme of 'Healing Trees'.
https://urbantreefestival.org/writing-competition-top-24/blog-post-title-four-e4hpr
A flash story published in the 4th edition of Westword Journal. The theme was 'Hope'.
You can read it here:- https://westword.substack.com/p/germinating-a-tiny-hope
You can access the full edition and the other 8 stories here:- https://westword.substack.com/p/edition-4-december-2023
This piece was the winner of the first Kettering Litfest short story competition.
The theme of the contest was, 'Change.'
This short story was long-listed in Flash500 competition and then with further editing, reached the shortlist of Farnham Flash Fringe Competition July 2023.
A prose poem recently published in Kith Review Magazine. https://janfortune.com/kith-review/
Songs for Recovery is a personal poem which was begun after my husband was recovering from an illness which put him on a life support machine. Thankfully he is now well. But I believe the process of writing this poem helped me to get through some difficult times and realise how important nature is to our well-being.
A festive short story which was short listed for the Retreat West Christmas Competition
One of the selected stories for 'Turning Point'...an anthology of life changing moments from Exisle Publishing.