Wednesday 22 November 2017

Adjudication and Readings of the General Short Story. 21/Nov/2017 -

A change to the syllabus – Feedback from the SAW Conference is put back until 17 April 2018.

Myra provided details of the Glasgow Herald - McCash Poetry Competition. Due date 31st December 2017

Fifteen members were present including a returned Sandra McGruther who was able to tell us of success with her “Still Dark” paper backs. They have been available in the main supermarkets since 3rd November and sales are up relative to comparable figures from 2016. Sandra also provided anecdotes from her promotional tours in North America.

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Ann MacKinnon had selected her ‘first five’ from the fourteen entries for the 2000 word General Short Story Competition. For the first time, the Erskine and SAW selection of 2000 as the numbers of words coincided; These same entries are therefore also available to enter competitions at the Scottish Writers Association Conference in March 2018. As a result of that, no details of the authors, titles or subjects are being included in this blog.

The five stories were read out in order of:- commended, highly commended, third, second and first.
With readings and comments, there was only sufficient time for those five entries. If the quality of the first five is anything to go by, we can still look forward to hearing the remainder at another time.

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