Winning stories to 'START' competition

http://erewashwriterscompetition.weebly.com/winners-2013.html


Winning stories to 'START' comp, judged by Dan Purdue, published on website  

RESULT for 'START' Flash Fiction Competition 2013

This information will also be posted to the competition website as soon as I am able to access it.  http://www.erewashwriterscompetition.weebly.com/
Problems with Weebly at present.

Our thanks to Dan Purdue  http://lies-ink.blogspot.co.uk/  for judging the competition entries and providing his book as part of the first prize Somewhere To Start From and you can find this on Amazon http://tinyurl.com/SoToStFr

You can read Dan's report for the three final entries on the competition website (will be posted there soon).

Winning entry - The Castle by Tony Oswick

Second Place   - The Weight of Stones by Jenny Long

The competition was to have provided first and second places only, but I'm pleased to say an
Honourable Mention has been awarded to You Start by Fiona Faith Ross.

SHORTLIST                                                                                                   

Bonds by Jane Connop
Bubby by Gail Aldwin
Caught Unawares by Jan McGeachie
Descending and Ascending by Tim Craig
Don’t Start by Brian Webster
Fresh Start by Barbara Hill
It Started with a Kiss by Keith Havers
Judgement Day by Jilly Gardiner
Room Nineteen by Jim Hamilton
Start by Steve Clough
Start by Esther Doel
Start by Joan Phillipps
Starting Over by Ros Collins
The Castle by Tony Oswick
The Darkness, Waiting by Sinead O'Hart
The Fright of their Lives by Rob Tye
The Leather-Clad Phoenix by Heather Price
The Portrait by Cathy Lennon
The Weight of Stones by Jenny Long
You Start by Fiona Faith Ross

LONGLIST

Don’t you Start by Lyndsay Fisher
Follow Me by Sadie Wikiel
 Fresh Start by Linda Hardy
Incendiary by Renay Allen
Over the Brink by Devika Rajeev
Riot by Lyndsay Warner
Start from Scratch by Julie Kilpatrick


Remember, you may not have won this competition but by entering it you have gained a complete story. I suggest you read Dan's report, read the winning entries and read your entry with a critical eye.  Ask yourself if your entry could be improved then either send it somewhere else, or expand on the idea to make a longer piece of work. 

We are currently inviting entries to the following competitions and would be pleased to receive your work.  Please see the links for full details, rules of entry and entry form:

http://erewashwriterscompetition.weebly.com/2013-burst-flash-fiction-competition.html

http://erewashwriterscompetition.weebly.com/2013-open-short-story-competition---maria-smith.html

http://erewashwriterscompetition.weebly.com/2013-full-stop-short-story-competition---helen-baggott.html

Entry form  http://erewashwriterscompetition.weebly.com/entry-form1.html

Thanks to all who entered this competition.

Kind regards,
Debbie

I is for I

I have decided I won't be posting in the A-Z Blogging Challenge anymore.

It's a fab idea, but I prefer to post once a week only.

Thanks to everyone who is following me, has commented and please keep visiting as I will be posting soon with some tips about entering competitions and other useful/interesting information. Hopefully I will also have learned how to post to my blog to offer some pictures too.

Cheery bye for now.

F is for Fun

Earlier today I began thinking about which 'f' word I wanted to choose.

Fabulous, I thought, and I was fuelled into a furiously frisky frenzy. So many flipping fantastic words flying around inside my noddle.

After frittering away fifty minutes frequenting my dictionary, I became frightened this activity would simply leave me a fraught, frustrated and fruitless figure.  I felt I had come to a full stop and considered fetching my friend, Helen Baggott, who is the judge for the free-entry Full Stop competition
http://erewashwriterscompetition.weebly.com/2013-full-stop-short-story-competition---helen-baggott.html

Then I remembered it was Friday.  Helen would be at the fish and chip shop where she chats up the fella with the frier in his fingers.

It was then I realised fear was holding me back from making a decision.

I chose freedom by forcing myself to face up to it. 

I'd had fun in making a selection but once the final countdown had begun, that was it.

Finito.


What would you usually be doing on a Friday if you weren't busy with the A-Z challenge?