{"id":3207,"date":"2012-06-25T21:04:07","date_gmt":"2012-06-25T21:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crimeculture.com\/?p=3207"},"modified":"2016-06-22T18:11:55","modified_gmt":"2016-06-22T18:11:55","slug":"sherlock-holmes-flash-fiction-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crimeculture.com\/?p=3207","title":{"rendered":"Sherlock Holmes Flash-Fiction Competition Results"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Sherlock<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n

Winner<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n

‘The Problem of the Overtired Undergrad\u2019<\/a>,\u00a0Ari Scott-Zechlin<\/p>\n

[Read our interview with Ari…]<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Runners-up<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2018Iustitia\u2019<\/a>, Tara Coffin<\/p>\n

\u2018A Study in Iron\u2019<\/a>,\u00a0Thomas Pinder<\/p>\n

Short-listed<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

‘Nuremberg’<\/a>, Ros Ballinger<\/p>\n

‘Golden Blaze’<\/a>, Rhys Barter<\/p>\n

‘The Undead Detective’<\/a>, Rhys Barter<\/p>\n

‘Paul Wallace’<\/a>,\u00a0Sarah Borroum<\/p>\n

‘Desert Island Dicks’<\/a>,\u00a0Paul Chiswick<\/p>\n

‘One-Way Sherlock’<\/a>,\u00a0Dennis Mombauer<\/p>\n

‘Dear Mr Spade’<\/a>,\u00a0Charles Rzepka<\/p>\n

\u2018Ideal Holmes\u2019<\/a>,\u00a0Alex Watts<\/p>\n

The Sherlock Holmes Flash-Fiction Competition received over a hundred entries.\u00a0 We greatly enjoyed reading all of the stories submitted.\u00a0 Our judge, Sean Cregan, writes:<\/span><\/h4>\n

There are some good ones there! I had a hard time picking between ‘Iustitia’, ‘A Study In Iron’, and ‘The Problem Of The Overtired Undergrad’. I’m going to say ‘Undergrad’ just about takes it though.<\/p>\n

It was very, very tight, but ‘Undergrad’ just edged it for me on the style and quality of the writing – there’s a couple of lovely turns of phrase in there. The conceptual switch is a nice one too, like a modern (and more grown-up) update of ‘Young Sherlock’ minus the ambulatory cream cakes, told from an outside point of view (and you can’t go wrong with a sly Mrs Hudson reference). Very tight field, very hard to pick, but this one shaded it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Competition: \u00a0<\/span>Our Sherlock Holmes Flash Fiction Competition was part of an AudioGo<\/a> promotion. We asked that stories be no longer than 400 words and that they should\u00a0feature Holmes in another time and place or in a different genre, e.g. gothic, hardboiled, cyberpunk or sci-fi. The Crimeculture editorial team shortlisted a group of stories and\u00a0Sean Cregan<\/a>, author of explosive and brilliant cyberpunk novels\u00a0The Levels<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0The Razor Gate<\/a>, judged the overall winner and the runners-up. The shortlisted and winning writers will have their work published on the Crimeculture website during July. \u00a0The winning writer will be interviewed, published on Crimeculture and presented with a set of BBC Sherlock Holmes audiobook CDs; our two runners-up will also receive AudioGo prizes.<\/p>\n

Read more about our judge and the Audiogo promotion.<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

\"Audiogo<\/a><\/p>\n

In May – July, Crimeculture is featuring Sherlock Holmes and classic detective fiction. \u00a0See our front page links to some of our past articles on detective fiction, and our new contributions: \u00a0\u00a0Aysegul Kesirli’s \u00a0“Reading House M.D. as a Detective Drama,”<\/a>\u00a0which considers Gregory House in comparison to Holmes and to hard-boiled detectives; and\u00a0Ashleigh Prosser’s \u2018’The Genius Detective\u2019 in classical detective fiction,”<\/a>\u00a0which discusses Poe’s\u00a0Three Tales of Ratiocination<\/em>\u00a0and Doyle\u2019s\u00a0A Study in Scarlet.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Winner ‘The Problem of the Overtired Undergrad\u2019,\u00a0Ari Scott-Zechlin [Read our interview with Ari…] Runners-up \u2018Iustitia\u2019, Tara Coffin \u2018A Study in<\/p>\n

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