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Botchan Literary Award ぼっちゃんぶんがくしょう

Edition 18 (2021)

NovelShort short story

Winners

6 people
椿あやか つばき あやか grand prize

A short-short that layers cinema and nightfall, letting memory and imagination melt into each other.

Screenlight slowly illuminates a single memory.

330 pages
ショートショート映画記憶
知花沙季 ちばな さき honorable mention

A short-short that traces things delivered again and emotions that keep crossing paths, all in a light tempo.

Each redelivery changes the shape of feeling a little more.

330 pages
ショートショート再会すれ違い日常
藤原あゆみ ふじわら あゆみ honorable mention

A slightly unsettling short-short that turns bodily marks and memory into lingering atmosphere.

An indelible mark quietly draws the outline of the past closer.

330 pages
ショートショート身体記憶余韻
中乃森豊 なかのもり ゆたか honorable mention

A short-short that overlays family memory with the image of fossils, watching time accumulate in layers.

Something still moves deep inside the fossilized memory.

330 pages
ショートショート家族記憶時間
石原三日月 いしはら みかづき honorable mention

A short-short that uses humor to capture the wobble of not being able to settle on either side.

The feeling moves forward while the answer remains on hold.

330 pages
ショートショート選択揺れユーモア
伊藤見桜 いとう みお honorable mention

A short-short that uses a single dislike as a starting point to lightly trace the gap between self-consciousness and the world.

The watermelon that cannot be eaten somehow defines the self most clearly.

330 pages
ショートショート自己意識食べものずれ