Prizewinners

Don’t be shy, let us know about your success.
Or tip us off; let us into your secrets.…

Entrants - what are your favourite writing competitions?
Any you would not bother with again?

Judges - what are you looking for in a winning poem?
What do you really not want to see, ever again?

Organisers - what is most maddening with entries that ignore the rules?
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Kudos Competition Winners

March/April

Overall Winner
Alx Phillips (Poem)

The Professionals

I listen for them. The squeak
of trainers in the corridor. A flush,
and in they thump; belly-first,
a grunting parade. ‘Oops!
mind the Mac, Bob,’ tossing
books from shelves.
Are these men professionals?
They do it all in the dark.
I know that one. I’ve seen him walk
two poodles on a split
leash. He lies down next to me
fumbling with his Zippo.
click, click his breath tickles as he repeats
repeats a jingle in my ear.
They take longer this time.
There are new ones among them.
I can’t complain, at least they’re
reliable. I listen for them to be beckoned
back by the beacon’s black beam.
Except that one: he always stays
to let the others in.

Runner up (poem)

Nicky Sharra

Beacon

You smoulder beside me. Flames
trickle through tinder, twigs crack
snap gather speed prepare to roar
across the valley. Men squint
through shadow for that tiny splash
of orange, curse fumbling fingers
striking flint to pass the disaster on.
We feel the menace lying in wait,
and remember the first spark
of discontent that flared in our bellies.
We see the story spread from beacon
to beacon and wonder where it will end.

1st (Story)

Helen Yurevich

Old Bailey

The court was packed. Judge Bailey took a sip of water. He had almost dozed off. How embarrassing would that be? The two men in front of him made point after point. It seemed interminable. He was losing interest.
How much longer? he thought and glanced at his watch.
“Deuce”.

Highly Commended
Derek Adams, Aidan Baker, Jack Horne, Sarah James, Elizabeth Loxley, Trish Nicholson, Michael Pedersen, Lynn Woolacott

January/February

1st: Poem

Carol Carpenter

Piano Keys and Peacock Feathers

– for Zena

The peacock’s beak vibrates
against the strings of chicken wire
as he pecks a tune up
and down the scales,
a piano concerto for 161 peahens.
The notes rush into the crowd,
settle on wing feathers,
stir the females’ grey-brown squawks.

The peacock arches his feet,
saunters along the keys,
a slow shuffle of ivory
and ebony as his blue-green
feathers glitter
against the dark and light.
He slides the sweet melody
into the hot August night.

A frenzy of notes now,
a flutter of sound loud,
louder.  The peacock screeches,
rattles his tail feathers,
dances on each key.  Sage green
hammerheads strike steel wires
as the peacock
sets sound free.

Runner up:
Harriet E. Rose:  ALWAYS WITH US

1st: Prose

HEADS & TALES

by Joyce Troughton

“Faustina Pia, Empress from 161 AD.”
That’s me. Unseen.
“Wife of Marcus Aurelius. Little known about her.”
If you knew … .
“Gold coin, good condition. Peacock on obverse … ”
Peacock - some protector!
” … consistent with royal females.”
Evil-eye more likely. Ten of my babies died.
“Let’s start the bidding.”
Caveat emptor!

Runner up

Holly Dawson: Chin-Mai Nursery Will Be Closed Today

Honorable Mentions

Aidan Baker; Tanja Cilia; Myfanwy Cook; John Green;
Oz Hardwick; Julie Noble; Jennifer Rossington

November/December

1st: Prose Poem

Sidekick by John Walsh

When I was a student, I played Kiro, Basho’s
gawky, little sidekick monk in Edward Bond’s
‘Narrow Road to the deep North’. I fitted the part
perfectly. Every night for a week I had to fake
hara-kiri. It’s the closest I want to come to death.

Joint runners up; 2 issues
Gabriel Griffin (Stork) and Oz Hardwick (A Child’s Atlas of Dreams)

1st: Short Story, a whole year of Orbis subs

Going Gently by Rosemary Badcoe

Misunderstanding the instructions, they’ve brought a goat, a rope round its gawky neck. They’re at the terminus, luggage intact, all kin accounted for. Was this the intent, to reach death cautiously? They move towards the waiting room. Seraphs descend; the Angel of the North raises arms in greeting.

Joint runners up, 2 issues
Sonia Hendy-Isaac (Burlesque)
and Karen Sands-O’Connor (Green is the Color of Escape)

Honorable Mentions,
Copy of current issue of Kudos
Derek Adams; Aidan Baker; Alexandra Benedict; Lynne Hackles; James Miller; Noah Tipton

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Winner of the Manga Jiman competition is Helen Buckingham  of Bristol.

Several people had similar ideas, but I felt this was spot on:

manga jiman
opening the comic
her eyes widen

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Kudos - for people who prize writing

You may know one of these winners, and you could be one of them
Many congratulations to our subscribers (Orbis and Kudos)

Roger Elkin: 1st, Diversity House Poetry Competition

Barbara Daniels: 1st,
Writer’s Bureau Poetry & Short Story Competition (poetry)

Julia Painter: 1st, Writeonsite

Jeremy Worman, 1st, Cinnamon Press Short Story Competition

Derek Taylor, 1st, Carillon Minisaga Competition

Gol McAdam, 1st,
Sussex Playwrights Club 2008 Television Screenplay Competition

Annette Keen, Winner of The Yeovil Literary Prize (novel category)

Oz Hardwick, Winner of the Dawntreader Poetry Award;
Alan Spencer, Joint Winner of the Indigo Dreams Booklet Competition

Look forward to your comments: send us your contest details, judge’s reports and success stories

Kudos Competiton 2 Results

1st: Prose Poem, a whole year of Orbis or Kudos subs

John Walsh: Sidekick

When I was a student, I played Kiro, Basho’s
gawky, little sidekick monk in Edward Bond’s
‘Narrow Road to the deep North’. I fitted the part
perfectly. Every night for a week I had to fake
hara-kiri. It’s the closest I want to come to death.

Joint runners up; 2 issues
Gabriel Griffin (Stork) and Oz Hardwick (A Child’s Atlas of Dreams)

1st: Short Story, a whole year of Orbis or Kudos subs

Rosemary Badcoe: Going Gently

Misunderstanding the instructions, they’ve brought a goat, a rope round its gawky neck. They’re at the terminus, luggage intact, all kin accounted for. Was this the intent, to reach death cautiously? They move towards the waiting room. Seraphs descend; the Angel of the North raises arms in greeting.

Joint runners up, 2 issues
Sonia Hendy-Isaac (Burlesque)
and Karen Sands-O’Connor (Green is the Color of Escape)

Honorable Mentions,
Copy of current issue
Derek Adams; Aidan Baker; Alexandra Benedict; Lynne Hackles; James Miller; Noah Tipton

September/October

Poetry

Essex Poetry Festival
1st: Tom Bryan (Kelso; Des Res)
2nd: Mick Wood (Strasbourg, France; Dog Mess)
3rd: Anna Wigley (Cardiff; Alchemy)
Highly commended
Brian Docherty; Frank Mcdonald; Laura Solomon

Fellows’ Poetry Prize
1st: Peter Cash (Maid with a Milk Jug)
2nd: Paul Sutherland (Red Candle Holder)
3rd: Rose France (White Rabbit)
Highly Commended
Adrian Burke; Will Eaves; William Palmer; Derek Sellen

Haddon Library
1st: Roger Elkin(His eightieth)
2nd: Mary Courtney (The story of 800)
3rd: Caroline Gill (Sleepover at the Museum)

Leicester Poetry Society
1st: Roger Elkin (Stoke-on Trent; There’s this memory): £200
2nd: James. D. Taylor (Rossendale; Castaways): £100
3rd: Kate Rhodes (Cambridge; Portrait of My Husband as a Silver Lining): £50
Runners-up
David Grubb; Gisela Hoyle; Charles Lauder; Lynn Roberts; Howard Wright

Mere Festival
Open Section
1st: Norman Hodghton (Pilton; Penelope waits for Odysseus)
2nd:  Peter Gillott (Mere; Summer 1940)
3rd: Virginia Astley (Maiden Newton; Our Last Conversation )
Runners-up
Dawn Gorman; Irene James; Louise Wilford
Local
1st: Indranee de Silva (Frome; Painting David Hockney)
2nd: Colin White (Mere; Soldier of Misfortune)
3rd:  Crysse Morrison (Frome; Charity Shop Shuffle)
Juniors
11 Yrs. & Under
1st: Lottie Brownlow (Aslacton; Raddish the Gangster Hampster)
2nd: Isobel Webster (Tewkesbury; The Lie)
3rd: Ryan Hayes (Bexleyheath; Titanic)
12 -16 Yrs
1st:  Alanna Sargent (London; The Dentist Episode)
2nd:  Alyssa Browne (Trowbridge; The Storm)
3rd: Ramin Sabi (Finchley; The Storm)
Adjudicator’s Prize
Joshua Macksoni (Guernsey; The Big Issue)
Grace Wines Memorial Prize
Harvey Emby, Mere (Grand Slam 2009).
Poem in the Grove
1st:  Ken Dominey (Bruton; The Ice Cream Van on Old Ham Hill)
2nd: Kathy Butler (West Moors; Do Not Go Gentle)
3rd: Dawn Gorman (Trowbridge; In the Air)
375 entries

Northampton Literature Group
Free Verse
1st: Roger Elkin (Strange Harmony of Contrasts)
2nd: Samantha Newbury (Tea at Grannie’s )
3rd: Margaret Eddershaw (The Matter of a Counting Pig)
Highly Commended
Andy Humphrey; Sarah Leavesley; Ruth Smith
Shortlist
Sarah Leavesley
Mark Victor Rickman
Joanna Watson
Rhyming
1st: Andy Humphrey (Nobody Hurries in Harrogate)
2nd: Doreen Hinchliffe (The Newlyweds)
3rd: D A Prince (Beyond)
Highly Commended
Jan Clark; Paul Groves; Margaret Marshall
Shortlist
Valerie Calvert
Simon Smailes

Reach Poetry Magazine Readers’ Prize
132
1st: Pamela Trudie Hodge
2nd: Richard Bonfield
3rd: Susan Jane Sims
133
1st: June White
2nd: Glenise Lee
3rd: Caroline Gill / Pauline Hawkesworth

Scintilla
Short Poems
1st: Daphne Gloag (The Radio Clock)
2nd: Angela Morton (Between the Moving Shadows)
3rd: Meredith Andrea (Jug)
Commended
Janice Fixter; Kate Foley;Ted Walter; Heather Coffey; Pat Borthwick
Long Poems and Sequences
1st: Philip Gross (Praise Song for the Taff)
2nd: Clare Holtham (Walter the Tramp)
3rd: Rose Flint (Afternoon, a Spit from the Road)
Commended:
Mark Leech; Angela Morton; Jane Routh; K.V.Skene; Margaret Wilmot

Poetry Collections

Flarestack
Winning Pamphlets
Cliff Forshaw (Wake)
Selima Hill (Advice on wearing animal prints)
Anthology
D J Andrew; Peter Brennan; Tony D’Arpino; Di De Woolfson; Cliff Forshaw; William Gilson;
Richard W Halperin; Penny Harper; Caleb Klaces; Kath Levell; Gol McAdam;
Ian McEwen; Rosie Miles; Andrew Nightingale; Anne Phillips; Eluned Rees;
Jane Seabourne; Laura Seymour; K V Skene; Anne Stewart; Jason Watts;
Sarah Williams; Patricia Wooldridge

Templar Poetry Pamphlet Prizes
Nuala Ni Choncuir (Portrait of the Artist with a Red Car);
Paul Maddern (Kelpdings); David Morley (The Rose of the Moon);
Dawn Wood (Connoiseur)

Short Stories

Lichfield
1st: Adrienne Howell (Mere; Lucky Jack Cash)
2nd: Christine Genovese (France; Butterflies)
3rd: Bruce Harris (Seaton; Eyes Together, Eyes Apart)
Highly Commended
Pam Eaves; Brenda Ray
Commended
Sally Jenkins,
Short Listed
Janet Crouch; Rachel Crowther; Jo Derrick; Ruth Dugdall;
Clare Girvan; Anne Goodwin; June Hendon; Annette Keen;
Jacquelynn Luben; Nemone Thornes; Catherine Osborn

WriteOnSite
August
Sian Altman, Joanna Campbell (x2) Katie Carr and Raina Jones: £40
WriteInvite
Norma Buxton: £50

Playwriting
Sixth Windsor Fringe Marriott Award for New Drama Writing
1st: Kathleen Kiley (New York; Mr. Percy and King Lear)

May/June 2009

SHORT STORIES

Ballista
1st: Michelle Howarth (Ticked off ): £60
2nd: Natalie Donbavand (Equal Opportunities ): £30
3rd: Steve Richards (The sheeping pill): £20
Fish Short Story Prize
1st: Ian Wild (Ten Pint Ted)
2nd: Vanessa Gebbie (The Return of the Baker, Edwin Treagar)
3rd: Annemarie Neary (Painting over Elsa)
Runners-Up
Gerry Boland; Derek B. Donahoe; Kathryn Fletcher; Elizabeth Kuzara; Mair Masuda;
Dolores Walshe; Ann Ward

Turner Maxwell Books
Sue Burge (Diary of a Haircut);Ruth Dugdall (My sister the sea):
Clare Girvan (V for Courtly Love);Adrian James (The white valley);
Caireen Kelley (The Tree);Johanna Lipford (A person like that):
Jennifer McGrath (The black swan);Marcus Mcknight (Cherry Pie and Biscuits);
Colin & Heather Newby (Blood Relations); John Eamon O’Donovan (Polonia); Leela Devi Panikar (Destiny):Joanne Phillips (A Careful Man); Rebecca Hunt (Life is a war…); Rebecca Stonehill (Lena, me and the Artist): Sally Spedding (Final harvest); Sean Stockham (Cell 6); Steve Wade (Bullfighters and Baby-killers)

WriteInvite (March)
Julia Painter (Feeder)
WriteOnSite (February)
Della Galton (£50); Melanie Hammond (x2); Julia Painter

POETRY & SHORT STORIES

Writers’ Bureau
Poetry
1st : Barbara Daniels (Monmouthshire): £1000
2nd: Charlotte Gann, (East Sussex): £400
3rd: Pat Jackson (West Sussex): £200
4th: KV Skene, (Oxon): £100
Joint 5th (£50 each)
L. Goulding; L. Hitchen; M..Munzittu; H. Newby; D. Olley; H. Pedley
Stories
1st: Hilary Austin
2nd : Anna Freeman (Bristol) : £400
3rd : Cally Taylor (E. Sussex) : £200
4th: Bruce Harris (Devon): £200
Joint 5th (£50 each) : J. Haylett; S. Golden; F. Griffiths;
K. Marshall; S. Palmquist; B. Thomson

MULTI GENRE

The New Writer Prizes
Short Stories
1st Clare Girvan (Something To Tell You)
2nd Leslie Forbes (All Clay Has a Memory)
3rd Kerry Hood (Every Other Sunday And Where I Go)
Highly Commended
Angie Farrow; Kim Fleet; Adam Hays; Deborah Heslop; Karen Jones; Alison Key; Louis Malloy; R.S. Mann; Caroline Millar; Iain Pattison Tony Peake; Olivia Rana; Emma Seaman; Frank Talaber; Elizabeth Walter; Juliet West.
Runners-up
Sophie Coulombeau; Rachel Crowther; Miranda Doyle; Michael Dugdale; Lynda Fletcher; Maureen Hamilton; Aideen Henry; Sandra Jensen; Helen Kitson; James Lawless; Emma Lee; Shelagh Meyer; Jacqueline Moores; Shereen Pandit; Valerie Robinson; Dorothy Schwarz; Calum Stewart; Nemone Thornes; Chris Williams; Al Wright; Sharon Zink.
Novella
1st Alex Sheal (Lost in Kullu)
Poetry Collection
1st: Victor Tapner (The Limitations of Artificial Intelligence)
2nd: Cliff Forshaw (A Cabinet of Curiosities)
3rd: Pat Borthwick (In Praise of Hardware Stores)
Highly Commended
Clive Eastwood; Charlotte Gann; Rebecca Goss; Frances Anne King; Maitreyabandhu; Jocelyn Page; Kate Rhodes; Gordon Simms; Jocelyn Simms; K.V.Skene; David Underdown; Sarah Westcott
Single Poem
1st: Hannah Lowe (Sausages)
2nd: Pat Borthwick (Sold)
3rd: Louise Wilford Rattled
Highly Commended
Valerie Morton; Sheila Nichols; Juliet West
Essay/Article
1st: Lynn Bushell (Travels with My (Adopted) Aunt)
2nd: Ann MacLaren (In Loving Memory)
3rd: David McVey (In Highland Harbours with Neil Munro)

March/April 2009

POETRY

Café Writers Poetry Competition
1st : Victoria Rose Poolman (The chicken that saved my children)
2nd: Anneka Williams (Mud)
Joint 3rd : Charlotte Gann (The radiologist and the consultant gynaecologist)
&  David Grubb (The woman who washed her hair in the orchard)
Jarrold Norfolk Prize
Caroline Gilfillan (Cousins)
Shortlist
Maitreya Bandhu; Dot Cobley; Mandy Coe; Megan Dunn; David Grubb;
Lisa Hitchen; Jo Kjaer; Christopher North; Andrea Porter; Simon Proctor;
Anne Reckin; Rosie Shepperd; Cameron Hawke Smith; Fiona Walker

Indigo Dreams Press Poetry Awards
1st: Mala Mason
2nd: J.S. Watts
3rd: Eileen Carney Hulme
Dawntreader Poetry Awards 2009
1st: Oz Hardwick
2nd: Vanessa Stafford
3rd: Mala Mason
Indigo Dreams Booklet Competition
Gill O’Halloran (This Seven Year Old Walks into a Bar)
Alan Spencer (The Lodger)
Jenny Hamlett (Walking Wild)

Segora Open Poetry Competition
1st: Christopher North (Alicante; Mike’s Word for the Day)
2nd: Leah Armstead (Aberystwyth; Welsh Man Singing Alone in Town )
3rd: Duncan Fraser (Perth, Scotland; Charlotte Place)

The Times/ Stephen Spender Prize
Joint 1st: Paula Alonso-Lalanda (Let’s Go to the Market! by Gloria Fuertes; Spanish)
and Scarlett Koller (Roundelay by Charles d’Orléans; French)
Commended
Henry Bishop (Sleep, My Child by Elalongué Epanya Yondo; French)
Thomas Hughes (Unsaid by Aliette Audra; French)
18 and Under
1st: Daniel Galbraith, Amores I.V by Ovid (Latin)
2nd: Iwona Luszowicz ( In Remembrance of Marie A.by Bertolt Brecht; German)
3rd: Rupert Mercer (Poem VIII by Catullus; Latin)
Commended
Arabella Currie (Eclipse by Archilochus and Cupid Does Not Have Wings by Eubulus; ancient Greek)
Daniel Galbraith (The Lay of Fáfnir from Poetic Edda anonymous; Old Norse)
Katharine Gray (First Love by Shimazaki Toson; Japanese)
Oliver Moody (Copa Surisca anonymous; Latin)
Michael Warner (Amores I.VI by Ovid; Latin)
Open
1st: Imogen Halstead (Amores I.I by Ovid; Latin)
2nd: Jane Draycott (extract from Pearl anonymous; Middle English)
Joint 3rd: Timothy Allen (extract from Broken Heart, New Lament by Nguyễn Du; Vietnamese) and Emily Jeremiah (Theorem by Eeva-Liisa Manner; Finnish)
Commended
Duncan Forbes (To His Soul by Hadrian; Latin)
Laura Napran (Snow by Cathal Ó Searcaigh; Irish)
John Richmond (Boaz Asleep by Victor Hugo; French)
Peter Rumney (Alone in Solitude by Petrarch; Italian)
The Rev Mervyn Wilson (extract from The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius; Latin)

TIPS Readers’ Vote  Summer Competition
1st:  Peter Davies (Suffolk; Brum! Brum! 1962): £25
2nd: Terence Reid (The House by the Sea)
3rd: Norman Bissett (Travellers in Kilts)
4th: Pamela Trudie Hodge( Blue Mouse)

SHORT STORIES

H.E. Bates Short Story Competition 1
st: Samantha Priestley (Sothall; The Handprint Child)
2nd: (& Best Northamptonshire Writer): Rosemary Sturge (Abington; First Love)
3rd: Fran Tracey (Ruislip; First Love)
Under 18s:
Rachel Kelby (Irthlingborough; The Feathers of Angels)
Shortlist
Wendy Burnett; Clare Girvan ;Angela Johnson; Rebecca Lloyd
Mike Pearson; Dawn Tebbutt
Under 18s:
Kasamira Czanik (Bath; The Red Sunhat);
Emily Hawkins (Grange Park; The Eyes)

Carillon Open MiniSaga Competition
1st: Derek Taylor (The DIY Gunpowder Plot)
2nd: Andrew Beardmore (An Eye For An Eye)
3rd: Andrew Knighton (Remember Remember)
4th: Barbara Featherstone (Plot 73)
Shortlist
Deanna Allan;Patrick Forsyth;Tom Greenwood; Ezna Lane; Sheila Lockett;
Christine Sutton; Tracey Waterhouse

Turner Maxwell Books Short Story Competition.
Sue Burge (Diary of a Haircut); Ruth Dugdall (My sister the sea); Ray Girvan
(V for Courtly Love); Rebecca Hunt (Life is a war…); Adrian James
(The white valley); Caireen Kelley (The Tree); Johanna Lipford A person like that); Jennifer McGrath (The black swan); Marcus Mcknight (Cherry Pie and Biscuits); Colin & Heather Newby (Blood Relations); John Eamon O’Donovan (Polonia);
Leela Devi Panikar (Destiny); Joanne Phillips (A Careful Man); Sally Spedding
(Final harvest); Sean Stockham Cell; Rebecca Stonehill (Lena, me and the Artist); Steve Wade (Bullfighters and Baby-killers).

POETRY & SHORT STORIES

Ascent Aspirations Magazine Fall 2008 Erotica Print Anthology

Prize Winners

First Prize for Poetry - $100 (CND) - Kim Goldberg for “Heart Drive”
First Prize for Flash Fiction - $100 (CND) - Cynthia Colby for “Ageless Desire”
Second Prize for Poetry - $50 (CND) - Jen Cooper for “visit to the librarian”
Second Prize for Flash Fiction - $50 (CND) - Craig Grant for “when first you meet the witch”
Third Prize for Poetry - $25 (CND) - Tara McDaniel for “Sea Secret”
Third Prize for Flash Fiction - $25 (CND) - Judith Millar for “The Libidinous Librarian”

Honourable Mentions for Poetry/Flash Ficton

Susan Cormier for “tongue”
Keith Garebian for “Dracula Shares His Secret”
John B. Lee for “At the Waterhole”
Bernice Lever for “I Want a Stud for a Week”
Rosemary McCallum for “Four Hundred Series Interlude”
J. S. White for “Epiphania”

Lymm Lines Writing Competition
Adults
Poetry
1st: Valerie Crookes (Lymm; Writer’s Block): £50
2nd: Penny Kimber (Lymm; Paper City): £25
Prose
1st: Elizabeth Brassington (Kettering; Dunce): £50
2nd: Geoff Kipling (Macclesfield; Eye Test): £25
Highly Commended
(£15)
Celia Dawson ; Penny Kimber (2); ‘Ellis Lloyd’; Kathleen Newell; Joan Willard
Children
Poetry & Prose
(£10)
Juniors
1st:     Emily Fell (Lymm, Year 3; Animal Poem): £10
Seniors
1st: Talitha van Biljon (Lymm, Year 9; Why Do I Need the Alphabet?): £10
Runners-up
(£5)
Emily Fell (Lymm, Year 3; An Alphabet Kennin)
Callum Mc Laughlin, Lymm, Year 9; A-Z of Lymm Festivals)

MULTI GENRE
BCSA Prize
1st: Clarice Cloutier (Prague; essay,  A Scottish Harvest in Bohemia – Edwin Muir’s Return to Hope): £300
2nd: Zuzana Demčáková (Worcester; short story, The Leander Bud): £100
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Congratulations to Kudos subscriber Mandy Coe (Liverpool),
Joint Winner of the Manchester Poetry Prize
(Mandy is also an Orbis contributor,
and was voted Joint 2nd, #140 Readers Award)

Congratulations also to Angela France, Abegail Morley and Gabriel Griffin,
all Kudos and Orbis subscribers

Angela France (Cheltenham), 2nd, Torbay Poetry Competition: The Cost of Boys
Abegail Morley (Kent), winner of the Cinnamon Poetry Award:
How to pour madness into a teacup
which was the poem voted Joint 1st of the Orbis 142 Readers’ Award,
along with Angela France’s poem, The Florist Explains Mimesis

Gabriel Griffin (Italy), winner of the Scintilla Longer Poems & Sequences Section:
Winter Afternoon in Mottarone

And a big round of applause for our first round up of prizewinners:
well done to all these Kudos/Orbis subscribers and contributors:

Dawntreader/Indigo Dreams
K.V. Skene (2nd & 3rd)

Frogmore Poetry Prize
Gill Andrews (1st); Susan Richardson (2nd Runner Up)

Petra Kenney Prize
Mario Petrucci (2nd); Highly Commended: Pat Borthwick and Pam Galloway

Interpreter’s House
Runners-up: Merry Glover; David Grubb

Newark Poetry Society
Highly Commended: John Godfrey; Peter Johnson; Nick Pearson

Scintilla
Elizabeth Burns (3rd)
Commended: Pat Earnshaw; Roger Elkin; Edmund Matyjaszek;
Mandy Pannett; Roger Elkin; David Grubb

Silver Wyvern
Commended: Roger Elkin; Emma Harding; Gillian Nicholson; Mario Petrucci
Chris Preddle (1st, Short Poems)
Cath Nichols (Runner up);Commended: Carole Bromley; June English
Margaret Eddershaw (2nd, Formal Verse)

Slipstream
Roger Elkin (3rd)
Highly commended: Pat Earnshaw; Roger Elkin; Jean Harvey; Wendy Webb

Ted Walters
Poetry: 1st: Mandy Coe
Roger Darby (Shortlisted)

Ware
Commended
Mike Barlow and Laura Sheridan

The Welsh Poetry Competition
Specially Commended
Roger Elkin; Graham Burchell

And well done to the following Orbis contributors/subscribers, whose work appears in the current Forward anthology: Richard Marggraf Turley, Pat Borthwick, Paul Groves, Maggie Sullivan, Anna McKerrow
and last but by no means least: J P Dancing Bear

2008

Poetry

Deal and Dover poetry competition
1st: Lesley Quayle (Broth Weather)
2nd: Keith Shaw (Little Devils )
3rd: D.H.W. Grubb,M.Ed (Pig Days in Bedfordshire)
Highly Commended
Maria McCarthy; Alison Parkin
Commended
Rosmary Fisher; Katherine Gallagher ; Josephine Howard; Mandy Pannett; Gabriel Griffin

Blue Butterfly
1st: Richard W. Halperin (For Victor Gollancz)
Runners-up
Mary Hodgson; Chris Sparkes; Wendy Webb
Best of the Rest
Hilary Allen; Norman Babbage; Virginia Balchin; Patricia Batstone; Denise Bennet; Norman Bissett; Sheila Garwood; Celia Gentles; Eve Jackson ; Sean Kinsella; Sheila Longman; John Miller; Peggy Poole

Petra Kenney
General Category
1st: Caroline Gill (The Figure at the Phoenix Mine)
2nd: Mario Petrucci (‘S’ is for Snow)
3rd: Daphne Schiller (Mistletoe)
Highly Commended
Pat Borthwick; Pam Galloway; Micheline Maylor
Young Poets
1st: Josh Evans (Looking Back)
2nd: Kelsey Harbord (My Sister’s Favorite Bear)
Comic
Doreen Hinchliffe (All Their Yesterdays)

Nottingham
1st: John W. Clarke (Grey Mullet)
2nd: Janice Fox (Villanelle for Pat)
3rd: Fay Garrison (And So To Bed )
Merit Winners
C.J.Allen, Carl Chamberlain, A.F.Harrold, Wendy Klein, Gillian Knibbs,
Diana Pooley, Daphne Schiller, Michael Swan, Anna Wigley, Michael J. Woods
Runners Up
Norman Bissett, Tom Dowling, David Olsen

Scintilla 12
Short Poems
1st: Chris Preddle (Cattle Console Him)
2nd: Pat Borthwick (In Praise of the Oologist’s Art)
3rd: Susan Wallace (The last station stop)
Commended
Heather Coffey; Kate Foley; Sue MacIntyre; Susan Anne Moore; Robert Seatter
Long poems and Sequences
1st: Myra Schneider (Drought)
2nd: Margaret Wilmot (November Journal)
3rd: Christine McNeill (Martha’s Reverie)
Commended
Heather Coffey; Daphne Glaog; Anne Ryland; Dilys Wood; Lynne Wycherley

Poetry for Children

The Belmont Poetry Prize
1st: Sally Bowles (OKAY): £400
Runners-up (£50 each)
Janeen Brian; James Kirkup; Trevor Parsons; Jill Townsend: £50 each
Commendations
Jessica Barrah; Sarah Bryson; Atar Hadari; Denise Nardone; Emma Purshouse; Rachel Rooney; Payal Talreja; Catriona Tippin
400 entries

Short Stories

Arts Council YouWriteOn Book of the Year Awards 2008
1st: Trilby Kent (Dorset; Smoke Portrait)
2nd: Barbara Galvin (A Penny on the Tracks)
3rd: Patricia J. DeLois (Penguins in Amsterdam)
Children’s fiction award
1st: W.L. Mo (Tiger-Mouse)
2nd: David Wardale (Get Santa)
3rd: David Wardale (The Scream Park)

Frome Festival
1st: Joanne Ford (Solihull; The Power of Purple): £300
2nd: Vee Swindburne (Leighton Buzzard; Marcel’s Last Wave): £100
3rd: Rosemarie Rose (Torfaen, S. Wales; Anosmia – The Pros and Cons): £50
Commended
Sheila Corbishley; Kari Royden; Rachel Ward
Local Winners
1st: Geraldine Munns (Frome; Issy Remembers)
2nd: Kerry Hood (Bristol; Allow Me to Arise You)
Joint 3rd: Stella Goorney (Bath; From a Great Height)
& Magnus Nelson (Bath; Trisha’s Dream City-Break)
4th: Ruth Mallon (Frome; The Dog on the Mantelpiece)
Highly Commended
Veronica Birch; Jason Jackson; Rachel Ward

Poetry & Short Stories

City of Derby
Poetry
1st: Kate Rhodes (Portrait of my Husband as a Light Bulb)
2nd: C.J. Allen (The Other Side of Everything)
3rd: Noel Williams (Another’s Lilac)
Highly Commended
Kathleen Bell; Roger Elkin; David Grubb; Phil Powley; Ron Scowcroft
Stories
1st: Maria Goodin (Nutmeg)
2nd: Joel Willans (Buy Ma Biscuits or Kiss Ma Fish)
Garry Pope (Too Late?)
Highly Commended
Douglas Bruton; Alexandra Fox; Lesley Lodge; Martin Pevsner; Derek Taylor; Richard Walsh

Multi Genre

The New Writer
Short Stories
1st: Louis Malloy (Dillinger)
2nd: Cathy Whitfield (Backwater)
Joint 3rd: Alexandra Fox (Warble and Peach: Home from Home)
+ Elizabeth Janzen (The Farm)
Novella
1st: David Winston Lee (Maxim and Jazz)
Poetry Collection
1st: Alesha Racine (The Maynes)
2nd: Rebecca Goss (Details)
3rd: Anna Woodford (Birdhouse)
Single Poem
1st: Noel Williams (On the Verge of the M40)
2nd: Clare Jay (Trapdoor)
3rd: Ryan Scott (Pink Hat at Place des Vosges)
Essay/Article
1st: Ann Stevens (Snapshots)
2nd: Julia Anderson (Eight Things a Writer will Learn …)
3rd: Anita Loughrey (From Crime Thrillers to YA Books)

Time out: write Up your street
Under 16s
1st:Jemma Leech
2nd: Andrew Boardman
3rd: Ellie Warrow
16 and Over
1st: Elaine Cusack
2nd: Jane Bradley
3rd: Wendy French
Commended
Under 16s
Charlotte Buchan; Harriet Chambers; Conor Crooks; Ashanti Darby; Dorinda Kusi; Nancy Netherwood;
Hayley Simon
16 and Over
Tim Dooley; Linda Jones; Robin Shrubsole; Ben Singleton
1600+ entries

Other

Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook Blog Competition
James Whitworth: £500