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Flash Fiction Writing Competition 2009
Results
First Prize: How to Write for Competitions - and Win! course.
Five runners up received a copy of Cracking the Short Story Market
Thank you to all that entered our Flash Fiction competition. We had a fantastic response with entries making us laugh, cry and screw our faces up at the pure grisliness of the story. Some of you have very violent imaginations!
But finally we made our choices and we both agreed that Terry Prince should be the worthy winner.
Winner – Terry Prince
A nudge, a dip in the pocket – the mugs never saw me coming. Until I dipped Mad Ron. Didn’t recognise him. Big mistake. I miss my fingers.
Runners up
Amanda Hyatt
“Please,” she begged. Over the fence, she handed me her son. Aaron. A guard dragged her to the train. “Aaron? Not anymore,” I thought.
The poignancy of this one made it a ‘must’ for the runners up list.
RP Singh
A staunch believer in astrology, he was nearly 70 when he discovered his true date of birth. Whose life had he lived so far?
A very clever concept here!
Eileen Clifford
Engagement. Marriage.Hell. Divorce.
A story in just four words - we thought this was very succinct.
Sarah Stuart
FLASH, pain, lost limbs. Fallen mates, laughter stilled; my guilt, my shame. Your brave love, our baby’s cry; my salvation, my survival.
Several of you sent in entries with this theme - which is not surprising with war constantly in the news.
Mary Jones
Turning from the eyes that had wooed her so passionately to her anniversary present, a Hoover, her heart sighed away a million dreams.
... and this one brought a smile to our faces.
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AWARD WINNING WRITER 'So far, I have had eighteen novels published. The Writers Bureau helped make this possible for me. Within six months of enrolling on my course I was having work commissioned by editors and I still work regularly for magazines.' |
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Christina studied The Writers Bureau Comprehensive Creative Writing Course. |
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Sarah Leavesley 'Since starting The Art of Writing Poetry course, I have been published many times under my pen name Sarah James, won competitions and made money.' |
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"My short-term intention is to continue combining writing for newspapers and magazines with my current job. I'm enjoying my writing 'sideline' but I may find as time goes on that I want to make the transition to full-time writer." Cathal Coyle, Northern Ireland |
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'I always felt that I wanted to be a writer and write stories for children and novels for young adults. It was then that I did an enormous amount of internet research and discovered The Writers Bureau. In eight months, I had two books under publication!' |
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