Competitions   First Place: Silver Leaves for Judah Jones wins the 2008 Per Contra Prize and is published alongside work by John Updike 2007 Daily Telegraph Novel Competition (Judges, Sam Leith the Telegraph's Literary Editor, literary agent Antony Harwood, Novelist Louise Doughty and Commissioning Editor for Simon and Shuster, Rochelle Venables) 2007 Paddon Award, Exeter University (Judge, Rory MacLean) Charleston/Asham Small Wonder Festival Short Story Slam 2006 (Judges: The audience) Guildford Book Festival/BBC Southern Counties Short Story Competition 2006. (Judges: Elizabeth Buchan and Jane Wenham-Jones) Willesden Short Story Prize 2006 (Judge: Zadie Smith) Cotswold Writers 2005 (Judge: Katie Fforde) JBWB Spring 2005 (Judge: Jacqui Bennett) Cadenza Magazine Autumn 2005 (Judges: John Ravenscroft/Zoë King) Second Place/Runner Up Bridport Prize 2007 (Judge, Tracy Chevalier) 2007 Fish Short Story Prize (Judges Michael Collins and Fiona Kidman) Flashquake Magazine 'Less is More' Competition 2007 Fish Publishing One Page Story Competition 2006 (Judge: Angela Jane Fountas) Creating Reality 2006 Flash Fiction competition (Judge: Jane McNulty) Green Silk Journal 2006 Short Story Competition (Judges: Editors K D Hazlewood and Michael Powers Good Housekeeping 2004 (Judge: Alexander McCall Smith) Good Housekeeping 2003 Third Place Paddon Award 2005 (Judges: Exeter University panel) Momaya Press 2004 (Judges: Anna Von Pezold, literary agent; Jason Arthur, Editorial Director, Vintage; Lucy Alexander, writer, Times magazine.) Fourth Place/Runner Up Mere Literary Festival 2004 (Judge: Katie Fforde) Highly Commended Lichfield and District Writers 2006 Short Story competition Judge: Derek M. Fox Grace Dieu Writers 2005 Winchester 2005 (New Writer) (Judge: Richard Bell) Shortlisted Phillip Good Memorial Prize 2007. Willesden Short Story Competition 2007 (Judge: Zadie Smith) Fish International Short Story Competition 2007 BBC Southern Counties 'Write Hear! Write Now!' competition Fish International Short Story Competition 2006 Fish International Short Story Competition 2005 Asham Award for New Women Writers 2003 Cadenza Magazine Autumn 2004 Cadenza Magazine Spring 2004 Longlisted Bridport Prize 2006