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“tightly functioning, beautiful writing, that is very affecting and incredibly well observed - tense, confessional, and brutally honest…with absolutely killer lines” Sarah Hall.

Letty has an MA in Creative Writing from SHU, and her literary accolades include The Fish Short Story Prize, a Northern Writers Award, The Bridport Prize, The BPA Pitch Prize, Mslexia, The Letter Review Prize, Bath Flash Fiction, New Writers Flash Fiction Prize, Flash 500, The Fish Flash Fiction Prize, Retreat West, Periscope Literary, Silver Apples, Reflex International, Cranked Anvil, The Funny Women Awards & SHU Creative Writing Award.

Below are some of her award-winning short stories.

 
the rabbit hole I fall down at 3.07am - by Letty Butler

the rabbit hole i fall down at 3.07am

3rd place in Bath Flash Fiction (2026)

wants to say that thing you've never said - by Letty Butler

Ways to say that thing you've never said

1st Prize in Flash 500 (2025)

Vietnam - by Letty Butler

Vietnam

Winner of The Fish Short Story Prize 2023 & shortlisted for The Bridport Prize, 2022. 

catch there's always one  - by Letty Butler

Catch

1st Prize Retreat West Micro Fiction 2023 & Shortlisted for The Bridport Prize 2022. 

Astronaut  - by Letty Butler

Astronaut

Shortlist Cranked Anvil Short Story Prize 2022

Hung  - by Letty Butler

Hung

Finalist Mslexia Flash Fiction Competition 2021

Winner  - by Letty Butler

Winner

Shortlisted, Reflex Fiction, 2021

breath & bone - by Letty Butler

breath & bone

3rd Prize in Fish Flash Fiction Award (2025)

Elvis is alive and he lives in Belfast  - by Letty Butler

Elvis is alive and he lives in Belfast

Winner of New Writers Flash Fiction Prize 2022 and Shortlisted for Reflex Writing Prize.

swan song  - by Letty Butler

Swan Song

Third Prize Retreat West Micro Fiction 2023

spanners, a story about love  - by Letty Butler

Spanners

Finalist Mslexia Flash Fiction Competition 2022

Shindig  - by Letty Butler

Shindig

1st place Cranked Anvil Short Story Prize 2021

Bedfellows - by Letty Butler

Bedfellows

Highly Commended, Silver Apples, 2021