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 |
