The cold weather did nothing to keep prize-winners for this year’s Wight Fair Writers Winter Writing Competition away from Newport last night.
Around sixty people gathered in the Castlehold Baptist Church (which was kindly loaned for the evening) for the Winter Writing Competition grand prize-giving.
Entries tripled in 2010
This year, the Wight Fair Writers’ Circle received three times as many entries to their competition, making judging all the harder.
However, winners had to be chosen, so the judges worked their way through the many anonymous entries.
Handing out the prizes on the night were authors Pauline Rowson, Wendy K Harris and Diana Kimpton.
And the winners are ….
Congratulations to everyone who took part. Stories by the winners of the three main categories will all be published right here on VB over the next couple of days.
Adult category
1st Alison Trappitt – The Penpal
2nd Catherine Thorp – Thank You So Much
3rd Sandra Singleton – In The Pink
Runner-up Roger Scott – The Broom Handle
Runner-up Margaret Richens – A Christmas Guest
Runner-up Janet Tait – The First Crime Of The Year
Runner-up Chris Sullivan – That Was Then-Now Is Now
Runner-up Kay Burridge – House Of Cheer
Under 18s category
1st Jonty Parkes – Prickly Packages
2nd Laura Beckett – Passers By
3rd Ellie Staley – Journey Of The Little Robin
Runner-up Heidi Hamilton – Alone
Runner-up Eleanor Ness – Perspectives
Runner-up Lily Cooper-Harden – A Christmas Wish
Runner-up Katie Churchill – I Call Him ‘Winter’
Runner-up Euan Perkins – Winter Story
Under 12s category
1st Joe Davies – Cold Fear
2nd Matthew Guelbert – Holly Thorn
3rdBen Rayner – Santa’s Last Delivery
Runner-up Kirra Bell – Okiano
Runner-up Reuben Leal – The Big Freeze
Runner-up Summer Pelosi – The Magical Snowman
Runner-up Jack Powell – The Mystery Gift
Runner-up Molly Frost – Arabella
Wight Fair Writers’ Circle Award Shield
In addition, the Circle ran an internal competition for the ‘Wight Fair Writers’ Circle Award Shield’.
Congratulations to Margaret Norris who snapped up the first prize and to Maggie Jones for taking 2nd and 3rd Prize.
Margaret and Maggie’s entires will also be published on VB.
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