{"id":3298,"date":"2022-12-07T12:18:41","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T12:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cambridgewriters.org\/?p=3298"},"modified":"2025-02-10T16:15:34","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T16:15:34","slug":"coincidence-short-story-competition-anthology-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cambridgewriters.org\/?p=3298","title":{"rendered":"Coincidence &#8211; Short Story Competition Anthology 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cambridgewriters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Coincidence.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3299\" width=\"214\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cambridgewriters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Coincidence.jpg 324w, https:\/\/www.cambridgewriters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Coincidence-195x300.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Coincidence&#8217; &#8211; Short Story Competition Anthology 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>&#8216;Coincidence&#8217; <\/em>&#8211; A Great Christmas Gift<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Our latest anthology makes a perfect Christmas gift for the avid reader in your life. Packed with a wide variety of short stories, all written on the theme of coincidence, but all wonderfully unique. Our writers brought their individual interpretations to this theme, resulting in imaginative, amusing and poignant tales that will leave you thinking &#8216;oh I&#8217;ll just read one more!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A word from our judge, Professor Andrew Cowen<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;What impressed me overall was the level of technical accomplishment. These stories were clearly written by readers, very attentive readers, who understood how to shape a narrative, how to reveal a character, how to pace a story&#8217;s unfolding.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Huge thanks go to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridgewriters.org\/?p=88\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Les Brookes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridgewriters.org\/?p=41\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Siobhan Carew<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridgewriters.org\/?p=6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Thure Etzold<\/a> for their hard work designing, editing and publishing our anthology this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Contributors<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Les Brookes, Siobhan Carew, Blackthorn Donovan, Kathy English, Mike English, John Freeman, Liz Fullick, Harry Goode, Richard Gould, Christine Hawkes, Fran Johnstone, Rose Kavanagh, Stephanie Ledger, Rachel Levy, Tim Love, Karin Miller, Jane Phillips, Beverley Steffert, Francis Thompson and Josephine Warrior.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Reflections on <em>Coincidence<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Another enjoyable and refreshingly mixed collection of short stories from Cambridge Writers.&#8221; &#8211; Jane Wilson Howarth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/COINCIDENCE-Cambridge-Writers-Short-Competition\/dp\/1913410099\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=SH32KMK3F32N&amp;keywords=coincidence+cambridge+writers&amp;qid=1670412440&amp;sprefix=coincidence+cambridge+writers%2Caps%2C67&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Buy <em>&#8216;Coincidence&#8217; <\/em>&#8211; Short Story Competition Anthology 2022 here<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Coincidence&#8217; &#8211; Short Story Competition Anthology 2022 &#8216;Coincidence&#8217; &#8211; A Great Christmas Gift Our latest anthology makes a perfect Christmas gift for the avid reader in your life. 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