Rob McInroy's writing

Rob McInroy, author of Cuddies Strip, a novel based on true crimes in Perth in 1935


Rob McInroy has won or been placed in a number of short story competitions in the past few years, including:




Phoenix on the Orange River was published in A Dark Phantastique edited by Jason V Brock in 2016 under the pseudonym Tom Conoboy

(In My Way) (flash fiction) won second prize in the Flash 500 Short Story Competition in August 2017

Man Walks Into a Bar (flash fiction) won the Hissac Flash Fiction Competition in October 2017. The judges described it as “a hugely impressive piece of work. Rarely will you read a piece of Flash Fiction that gets so much into such a short space.”

Whisky Night won first prize in the Writing Magazine competition in February 2018. The judges described it as: “a tour de force of accumulated impressions and heightened perceptions that convey the way death changes everything and nothing: Ash's world reshapes itself in its new form as the story is being written.”

Joss’n’Jules Forever was shortlisted in the Writing Magazine competition in February 2018

Burials won the Chipping Norton Literary Festival Short Story Competition in May 2018, judged by Rachel Seiffert, who said it was: "A dark and very well-crafted mini thriller, with a finely-drawn detective protagonist, who must seek to understand the disturbed mind of her main suspect in order to solve the crime."

Taking Tea With the Other Woman was shortlisted in the Ruth Rendell Short Story Competition 2018
 
Stakes was published in Storgy in April 2018
 
The Birth of God won second prize in the Segora Short Story Competition in July 2018

Joss’n’Jules Forever was shortlisted in the Brighton Prize in October 2018

Peewit (flash fiction) won third place in the HISSAC Flash Fiction competition, November 2018

Sequela was highly commended in the HISSAC Flash Fiction competition, November 2018

Fresh Watter was shortlisted in the Exeter Story Prize November 2018

Taking Tea With the Other Woman was shortlisted in the 1000 Word Challenge in December 2018.

The Gamekeeper’s Telling (flash) was Highly Recommended in the London Independent Story Prize in December 2018.

Cuddies Strip (novel) was a winner in the Bradford Literary Festival Northern Noir crime fiction competition in December 2018.
 
The Jasmine Orchestra played Auld Lang Syne was shortlisted by Writers’ Digest in December 2018.

Joss’n’Jules Forever won First Prize in the Bedford International Writing Prize in January 2019

The Weight of Snow was shortlisted in the Bedford International Writing Prize in January 2019.



The Difference Between Love and Iniquity was shortlisted in the 1000 Word Word Challenge in March 2019.

Memento Mori (flash fiction) was published in Flash: The International Short Story Magazine in May 2019

The Silent Approach of Eternity (flash) won second prize in the Shady Grove Flash competition in March 2019
 
The Entertainer was a winner in the Enizagam Writing Competition in April 2019

Momma won third prize in the Flash 500 flash fiction competition in May 2019

The Brightside Brothers and the Loss of the 1953 FA Cup Final was short-listed in Writers’ Forum in July 2019

Harbinger (flash fiction) was published in Palm-Sized Press, volume 1, in July 2019

Not Here, Swimming, was Highly Commended in the MTP Short Story competition in August 2019

Some Kind of Lovemaking (flash fiction) was shortlisted in the Flash500 flash fiction competition in August 2019

Oysters and Ink was shortlisted in the Segora Short Story competition in August 2019

The Birth of God was shortlisted in the To Hull and Back Humorous Short Story Competition in September 2019

Cloudland won the Darling Axe Novel First Page competition in October 2019

And the Byzantium Orchestra Played Clair de Lune won an honorable mention in the Texas Observer Short Story Competition in October 2019

Zoroman’s Cave was runner up in the Raven Short Story Competition in November 2019

Oysters and Ink was shortlisted in the Writers’ Forum Competition in November 2019

Fair Near A Riverside Town was a finalist in the London Independent Story Prize competition in March 2020

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