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Prizes, grants and awards

Tom-Gallon Award for a short story (past winners)

 

2007 Claire Keegan The Parting Gift
2006 Bethan Roberts An Elephant in the Thames
2005 Colette Paul O Tell me the Truth About Love
2004 Claire Keegan Men and Women
2003 Judith Ravenscroft As She Waited for Spring
2001 Paul Blaney Apple Tennis
1999 Grace Ingoldby The Notion of Deuce
1996 Leo Madigan Packing for Wednesday
1994 Janice Fox A Good Place to Die
1992 David Callard Reading the Signals
1990 Richard Austin Sister Monica’s Last Journey
1988 Alan Beard Taking Doreen Out of the Sky
1986 Lawrence Scott The House of Funerals
1984 Janni Howker The Egg Man
1982 Dermot Healy The Tenant
1980 Alan McConnell The Comrades Marathon
1978 Michael Morrissey An Evening With Ionesco
1976 Jackson Webb Vassili
1974 Neilson Graham Anscombe
1972 Kathleen Julian Catch Two
1970 A. Craig Bell The Nest / Aileen Pennington The Princess and the Pussy-cat
1968 No Award
1966 Gillian Edwards An Evening in September
1964 Peter Greave The Wonderful Day / Jean Stubbs A Child’s Four Seasons
1963 No Award
1961 No Award
1959 Harold Elvin God’s Right Hand Upon My Shoulder
1957 E.W. Hildick A Casual Visit
1955 Robert Roberts Conducted Tour
1953 Maurice Cranston A Visit to the Author
1951 Fred Urquhart The Ploughing Match
1949 Olivia Manning The Children
1947 Dorothy K. Haynes The Head
1945 Jack Aistrop Death In the Midst of What
1943 Elizabeth Myers A Well Full of Leaves