2012
Member Competition Winners
POETRY: HAIKU
Judge : Stu Bagby
1st | Annie Glancey | Night Things |
2nd | Tanya Gouws | Funeral |
3rd | Annie Glancey | Spring Time |
POETRY: FREE VERSE
Judge : Stu Bagby
1st | Rosa Gaete | To Ian |
2nd | Annie Glancey | Neither Here Nor There |
3rd | Margaret Mackie | Sea Mother |
POETRY: HUMOROUS
Judge : Stu Bagby
1st | Margaret Wilkins | Innocence |
2nd | Pauline Hayes | The Gardener |
3rd | Pauline Hoare | Taking the Plunge |
NON-FICTION: NEW ZEALAND SETTING
Judge : Judith Williams
1st | Marion Duncan | A Child of Destiny |
2nd | Betty Morgan | A School Day in 1940 |
3rd | Margaret Wilkins | Two on a Bicycle Built for One |
CHILDREN’S SHORT STORY: From the point of view of a minor character or an inanimate object (10-13 readers)
Judge : Merrill Lewis
1st | Marion Duncan | Taken in a Flash |
2nd | Margaret Mackie | Finding Great Grandmother’s Brooch |
3rd | Margaret Wilkins | My Story |
HC | Tanya Gouws | The Princess and the Pea, by the Pea |
HC | Gillian Henderson | Once Upon a Time, by Grumpy |
HC | Margaret Mackie | Cinderella’s Slipper |
HC | Annie Glancey | Life’s a Story |
HC | Nikki Davidson | I’m Soxy and I Know It |
DRAMA: OPEN
Judge : Nola Drake
1st | Tanya Gouws & Catherine Williams | Bon Voyage |
2nd | Neil Garner | All in a Name |
3rd | Gillian Henderson | Brief Encounter |
SHORT-SHORT STORY: OPEN
Judge : Graeme Lay
1st | Pam Smith | The Winged Cage |
2nd | Rosa Gaete | Footsteps in the Night |
3rd | Marion Duncan | We’ll be Ok |
HC | Neil Garner | Kindred Spirits |
HC | Ngaire Gee | In the Kitchen |
HC | Gillian Henderson | Curry |
ROSE TROPHY (Four Letters)
LETTER 1: Dear Prime Minister
Judges : Gillian Henderson, Sherie Crosby, and Rosa Gaete
1st | Neil Garner |
2nd | Pauline Hoare |
3rd | Margaret Wilkins |
HC | Gloria Trask |
LETTER 2: Dear Neighbour
Judges : Tanya Gouws, Catherine Williams, and Graeme Mackie
1st | Margaret Wilkins |
2nd | Gillian Henderson |
3rd | Marion Duncan |
HC | Betty Morgan |
HC | Neil Garner |
LETTER 3: My Excuse is…
Judges : Neil Garner and Pauline Hoare
1st | Betty Morgan |
2nd | Margaret Wilkins |
3rd | Marion Duncan |
LETTER 4: Love Letter
Judges : Marion Duncan, Pamela Bell, and Annie Glancey
1st | Gillian Henderson |
2nd | Neil Garner |
3rd = | Sherie Crosby |
3rd = | Betty Morgan |
HC | Rosa Gaete |
C | Margaret Mackie |