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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