It is with great pride that I bring you the final round-up for the 2016 SA HorrorFest Bloody Parchment short story competition.
Taking first place, we have
Blaize Kaye, with "Remains of an Old World".
Runners-up are
Brett Rex Bruton, with "The Out of Place"; and
Lester Walbrugh, with "For Better or Wors".
Our finalists, who have the option of going into the anthology, as well as receiving some extremely useful editor notes to help improve their story-telling overall, with guidance from an editor, include
Aito Osemegbe Joseph, Shaun van Rensburg, Erhu Amreyan, Jessica Liebenberg, Toby Bennett, Stephen Embleton, Livingston Edwards, William Burger, Mignotte Mekuria, and
Janine Milne.
A very big congratulations to all of you!
We would like to thank this year's judges:
Cat Hellisen, Dave de Burgh, Diane Awerbuck, Efemia Chela, Lauren Smith and
Sarah Lotz, who had the difficult task of evaluating the short list.
