As we emerge from the cocoon of the Covid years, our LitLinks storytellers have shifted gears slightly, moving away from the intense focus on mental health and dystopia, although still featured, to a variety of culturally diverse, creatively-infused, imagination-stretching, unique story ideas. With a 41% increase in entries this year, the judges were faced with an extremely challenging task but it was an exquisite problem for us to have!

We congratulate and thank the student and teacher authors of 2024, for sharing their fiction with us, and through it, the themes which concern and interest them.

Click on the images and links to explore this year’s collection of stories.