We are delighted to announce that our own Iris Anne Lewis has been named runner-up in the poetry section of the annual Gloucestershire Writers’ Network Competition.
There were more than 220 entries on the theme of journeys, and Judges Jane Bailey and Philip Rush
were impressed with the standard. Many congratulations to all the winners. You will be able to hear the winners and runners-up read their work at The Times and The Sunday Times Cheltenham Literature Festival on Sunday 8th
October from 7. 00 – 8.15 pm in the Regency Suite, Queens Hotel.
Winning Prose Piece There was an Old Lady who Swallowed a Horse Pill
by Stephanie Carty
Prose Runners-up Travelling with Mary by Sophie Carabine
The Sleeping House by Tim Jeffries
Pogácsca by Alex Wardrop
Highly Commended Embers of Memory by Catherine Awel
Mrs Brown’s Boys by Sue Jay Johnston
Running Free by Pam Keevil
Freight by Imogen Rae
Skin Deep by Marilyn Timms
Winning Poem Shift: self-portrait as a set of watercolour pencils
by Sarah Hemings
Poetry Runners-up From Artist to Model —- The Journey of Dorelia McNeill
by Iris Anne Lewis
Puncture Repair by Chris Hemingway
Her Husband by Pauline Masurel
Highly Commended Trans-Siberia in the April Thaw by Catherine Baker
Journey to Bukhara by Clair Chilvers
How to Mend a Broken Heart by Gill Garrett
These Hands by Carol Sheppard
Leavings by Mark Woods
Somewhere Else Writers Group 