The Game
TOM ANDERSON - Runner-up of the Michaelmas Term 2022 ORB short fiction prize judged by Natasha Brown.
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Ultraviolet Dreams
URSULA BRUNETTI - Winner of the Michaelmas Term 2022 ORB short fiction prize judged by Natasha Brown.
Action Figure
LAURA LYNES - Winner of the Summer 2022 ORB short fiction competition judged by A.K. Blakemore.
Charmed
THOMAS SANDERS, Charmed, runner up of the HT22 Short Fiction prize judged by Brian Catling
Forced Reflection
OLIVIA KATRANDJIAN - Runner-up of the Summer 2022 ORB Short Fiction Prize, judged by A K Blakemore.
The Ancient News of the World
ANNABEL ROGERS - Winner of the Spring 2022 ORB Short Fiction Prize, judged by Brian Catling.
A Little Language, under which is Love
KATE ÖZEL — Runner-up of the Autumn 2021 ORB Short Fiction Prize, judged by Bart van Es.
The Summer of the Floating Fish
CAITLIN WILSON - Winner of the Autumn 2021 ORB Short Fiction Prize, judged by Bart van Es.
I Don’t Know How the Mirror Broke
ION D. SÎRBU - a new translation of his short story 'I Don't Know How the Mirror Broke' by Andreea Iulia Scridon
TICK TOCK
HELENA AEBERLI - Runner-Up of the Summer 2021 ORB Short Fiction Competition, judged by Larissa Pham.
The Birthday Cake
RUPA WOOD - Winner of the Summer 2021 ORB Short Fiction Competition, judged by Larissa Pham.
On the Nature of Being Ella
EVA HIBBS – Second runner-up of the Spring 2021 ORB Short Fiction Competition, judged by Amit Chaudhuri.
Feathers
ANNA COOPER – Runner-up of the Spring 2021 ORB Short Fiction Competition, judged by Amit Chaudhuri.
My Venus
CHARLIE KITE – Winner of the Spring 2021 ORB Short Fiction Competition, judged by Amit Chaudhuri.
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.
Rising
ROWAN WILSON - Winner of the Spring 2020 ORB Fiction Competition, judged by Will Eaves
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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'
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,.
Milk Tray
MAYA LITTLE - The winner of this term’s fiction competition, judged by Julia Armfield
The Violence of Woman
BETHAN JAMES - Women behaving badly against the backdrop of the sea.
A Journey Home
YUQING WENG -The winning story of this term's ORB fiction competition, judged by Patrick McGuinness.
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...
Leftovers
Brennig Davies’ ‘Leftovers’ is the winning entry of the HT19 ORB fiction competition, adjudicated by award-winning author and journalist...
The Lure of Mimicry
JAMES MCNAMEY -Carolinn Hughes' translates all the sensations of her verse into her autobiographical debut novel
Not Them
At one or two or three in the morning all you see are the faces. They stare from walls and windows, trees, street lamps, subway signs....
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