Christmas Cards from Marla LAURA HANKINS - Runner-up of the Autumn 2020 ORB Fiction Competition, judged by Monica Ali.
Three Lovely Boys ROSE MORLEY - Winner of the Autumn 2020 ORB Fiction Competition, judged by Monica Ali.
The Box on the Shelf LUKE BATEMAN - Winner of the Summer 2020 ORB Short Fiction Competition, judged by Daisy Johnson.
1 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'
In Haedeki SHANLEY MCCONNELL - ‘If everyone were this sad on the outside, the world would be silent and lonely.’
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
Things As They Are HUGHIE ROGERS-COLTMAN - Examining 2019's finest examples of the resurgent genre of nature-writing
Thought Patterns GEORGE RUSHTON - In Ted Chiang's latest short story collection, meaning emerges through patterns, structure, and movement,.