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TICK TOCK
HELENA AEBERLI - Runner-Up of the Summer 2021 ORB Short Fiction Competition, judged by Larissa Pham.
Jul 24, 20218 min read
The Birthday Cake
RUPA WOOD - Winner of the Summer 2021 ORB Short Fiction Competition, judged by Larissa Pham.
Jul 17, 20219 min read
On the Nature of Being Ella
EVA HIBBS – Second runner-up of the Spring 2021 ORB Short Fiction Competition, judged by Amit Chaudhuri.
Apr 11, 20214 min read
Feathers
ANNA COOPER – Runner-up of the Spring 2021 ORB Short Fiction Competition, judged by Amit Chaudhuri.
Apr 9, 20216 min read
My Venus
CHARLIE KITE – Winner of the Spring 2021 ORB Short Fiction Competition, judged by Amit Chaudhuri.
Apr 7, 20215 min read
Christmas Cards from Marla
LAURA HANKINS – Runner-up of the Autumn 2020 ORB Fiction Competition, judged by Monica Ali.
Jan 22, 20218 min read
Three Lovely Boys
ROSE MORLEY - Winner of the Autumn 2020 ORB Fiction Competition, judged by Monica Ali.
Jan 15, 20218 min read
The Box on the Shelf
LUKE BATEMAN - Winner of the Summer 2020 ORB Short Fiction Competition, judged by Daisy Johnson.
Dec 16, 20207 min read
Rising
ROWAN WILSON - Winner of the Spring 2020 ORB Fiction Competition, judged by Will Eaves
Apr 1, 20208 min read
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ADAM HUSAIN - 'Amid the mud of the shore, which is rich and deep, we (once) saw a half-submerged thing. It was mud-covered too, bluish-gray'
Mar 30, 20207 min read
In Haedeki
SHANLEY MCCONNELL - ‘If everyone were this sad on the outside, the world would be silent and lonely.’
Mar 25, 20207 min read
The Nabob of Chipping Dean
WILLIAM HUTTON - As the world went awry around him, Roger Press, lay in bed, eyes blinking up toward the ceiling
Mar 21, 20208 min read
Things As They Are
HUGHIE ROGERS-COLTMAN - Examining 2019's finest examples of the resurgent genre of nature-writing
Jan 1, 20209 min read
Thought Patterns
GEORGE RUSHTON - In Ted Chiang's latest short story collection, meaning emerges through patterns, structure, and movement,.
Jan 1, 20206 min read
Milk Tray
MAYA LITTLE - The winner of this term’s fiction competition, judged by Julia Armfield
Dec 16, 20196 min read
The Violence of Woman
BETHAN JAMES - Women behaving badly against the backdrop of the sea.
Jul 27, 20195 min read
A Journey Home
YUQING WENG -The winning story of this term's ORB fiction competition, judged by Patrick McGuinness.
Jun 28, 20197 min read
The Funeral
Let me tell you about the whole affair. I remember it well: it was the early summer of thirty-nine, when Tunis started to become...
Jun 10, 20197 min read
Leftovers
Brennig Davies’ ‘Leftovers’ is the winning entry of the HT19 ORB fiction competition, adjudicated by award-winning author and journalist...
May 25, 20198 min read
The Lure of Mimicry
JAMES MCNAMEY -Carolinn Hughes' translates all the sensations of her verse into her autobiographical debut novel
Nov 15, 20188 min read
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