2018 kicked off with a bang with news that my short story ‘F’s Fir Fingers’ made the Top 40 of the Women and Words prose competition! You can learn more about it here.
The national and East of England winners will be announced from the shortlist on the 8th of January. I’m just delighted to be there. Good luck to everyone on the list, I’ve posted their details below.
Each of Us Drowning at Sea – Fiction – Yvonne Battle-Felton
Si’s Chair – Fiction – Debbie Bayne
Where were you? – Non-fiction – Bibi Berki
End of Term – Fiction – Pippa Brush Chappell
And We Grew So Old – Fiction – Selma Carvalho
From the Soil – Non-fiction – Lucy Cash
Glasshouse – Fiction – Philipa Coughlan
Havoc Shore – Fiction – Maureen Cullen
Getting Shit On – Non-fiction – Niamh Curran
The Story Of The Good Little Girl Who Did Not Prosper – Fiction – M. J. Doyle
The Gift – Fiction – Jennie Ensor
Every Living Thing – Non-fiction – Sally Kerry Fox
Molly Lovelace – Fiction – Ledlowe Guthrie
The Sunbathers – Fiction – Kerry Hood
Absinthe – Fiction – Janet Howcroft
The Other Side – Fiction – Hedy Howe
Paul Newman Eyes – Fiction – Kate Jefford
That Something of Me – Non-fiction – Ingrid Jendrzejewski
Crane – Fiction – Avril Joy
Sebald and standing in the kitchen at a party – Non-fiction – Alice Kent
Life Buoy – Non-fiction – Kate Malcolm
The Going Nowhere Roads – Fiction – Maire Malone
F’s Fir Fingers – Fiction – Margot McCuaig
Four Days of Dying – Non-fiction – Kirstin McKie
The Once and Only First Lady Judge – Fiction – Margaret Meyer
Upon Return – Fiction – Carmen Morawski
Dress rehearsal – Fiction – Hannah Persaud
Age of Reason – Fiction – Anne Rabbitt
Loving Icarus – Fiction – Alex Reece Abbott
The Man Who Walked In Off The Street – Fiction – Rashmee Roshan Lall
We Begin In Many Ways – Non-fiction – Christina Sanders
Kindred Spirits – Non-fiction – Helen Stockton
Black Boy Winnings – Fiction – Janet H Swinney
Waiting Rooms – Non-fiction – Shelley Tracey
It Never Rains in Wycombe – Non-fiction – Jennifer Twomey
She Clown – Fiction – Hannah Vincent
The Anthropologist’s Feet – Fiction – Dominie Walters
In the Moment – Fiction – Clare Weze
Borrowed – Fiction – Melanie Whipman
The Little Detective – Fiction – Julia Wills
Margot McCuaig 