At The Bay

The 2025 Katherine Mansfield Sparkling Prose Competition

By Ōtepoti He Puna Auaha | Dunedin UNESCO City Of Literature | Posted: Friday Sep 05, 2025

Warmest congratulations to all the 2025 Katherine Mansfield Sparkling Prose Competition shortlisted writers

Winners announced mid-October

SHORT LIST

An adaptable man by Hayden Pyke

A Cigarette at Taurua Stream by Anna Scaife

Double Helix by Elizabeth Kelsey

Father figures by Jemma Richardson

Inside by Tim Saunders

Janus-faced Survival Mode by Sharni Wilson

Meatless by Shelley Burne-Field

Minotaur by Lee Hana

One Week to Live by Michael Botur

On the Couch by Cristín Leach

Subterranean by Renee Liang

The Drowning by Jessica Le Bas

The Nawken by Lorraine Carmody

The Whale by Kirstie McKinnon

Untethered by Tania Norfolk

Waiting for a Real Da by Emily Macdonald