On
Monday 3 March a large group of members gathered to hear the results of
our first competition for 2014 - producing a short story from a given
first paragraph. The competition had also attracted a record number of
entries, despite many members saying they found the task difficult.
Our judge was up-and-coming thriller writer James Carol, who had also
set the paragraph we had to work from. He had been impressed with the
quality of the entries, and interested to see that some had used the
paragraph to write a 'big' story, about cataclysm and disaster, and
others to produce a 'small' more domestic drama.
The
eventual winners were, in joint fourth place, Stephanie Gaunt with 'The
Choice', and Jill Fricker with 'Falling to Earth'. New member Linda
Blackhall was third with 'We are the People', second was Mike Walsh with
the 'Wasteland', and our winner was Roz Balp with the mesmerising 'The
New Order'.
We were also pleased to welcome two prospective members at the meeting.
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