Competition Results and Christmas Goodies

Tuesday saw the writing group's end of session for 2016 and a good time was had by all those who managed to attend the Christmas meeting. As always, there were plenty of yummy goodies to eat and the only problem was knowing when to stop!

We have two competition results to mention - congratulations to all the winners and thanks to all who entered.

Memoir Competition - Adjudicator Brian Whittingham

Highly Commended     The Lamplighter by Myra Duffy
                                     This is About Me by Morag Moffat

Third                             Crocodile Tears by Hilary Stevenson

Second                          Missing by Joan Fleming

Winner                          Birthday party by Kate Gordon


Short Story Competition - Adjudicator Alex Gray

Commended                 Hilary Stevenson

Highly Commended     Elspeth Munro

Third                             Elizabeth Gillespie

Second                         Wilma Ferguson

Winner                          Judith Vallely


Have a great Christmas and we look forward to seeing everyone ready to start writing again on January 10th 2017.

Short Story Competition

We had a very interesting story adjudication from Betty McKay, a well-published short story writer who also has great success in Woman's Weekly, which is notoriously difficult to get right.

Betty gave a full overview on writing short stories and everyone learned something new.

The results of the Short Story Competition are:

1st:     Marc Sherland
2nd:    Elizabeth Gillespie
3rd:    Myra Duffy

Commended: Joan Fleming

Well done to all,
Rosemary