2016
Member Competition Winners
POETRY: BALLAD
Judge : Michael Watson
1st | Marion Duncan | Denniston |
2nd | Anne Hollier Ruddy | Songs of the Islands |
3rd | Diana Tormey | I Would Climb Inside the Sky |
HC | Margret Wilkins | The Ballad of the Briny Brew |
POETRY: FREE VERSE
Judge : Michael Watson
1st | Anne Hollier Ruddy | Landscape |
2nd | Vincent Maire | The Guardian |
3rd | Margaret Wilkins | Butterflies at the Beach |
HC | Diana Tormey | Flowering Trees |
C | Rose Hala | Dementia |
DRAMA: 15 MINUTE SKIT
Judge : Richard de Luca
1st | Tanya Gouws | Lip Service |
2nd | Cheril Clarke | An Episode |
3rd | Vincent Maire | The Great and the Good |
CHILDREN’S SHORT STORY: OPEN (13+ readers)
Judge : Judy Lawn
1st | Margaret Wilkins | Double Dipping |
2nd | Marion Duncan | League of Life |
3rd | Gill Henderson | Enemies |
HC | Tanya Gouws | Sarah’s Midnight Stroll |
HC | Cheril Clarke | I Need to Know |
HC | Cheril Clarke | School is a War Zone |
HC | John Trayes | Ten Dollars |
HC | Annie Glancey | Life’s a Story |
C | Allison Clark | Young Love |
SHORT STORY: CRIME/MYSTERY
Judge : Frances Housden
1st | Tanya Gouws | Forbidden Fruits |
2nd | Cheril Clarke | What’s Happened to Anna |
3rd | Rose Hala | Complexity |
C | Allison Clark | Sun Burnt |
SHORT-SHORT STORY
PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD (Judged by HCW Members)
1st | Annie Glancey | Roimata |
2nd | Anne Hollier Ruddy | Incident |
3rd | Vincent Maire | Benny Loves Barbara |
HC | Cheril Clarke | The White Cliffs of Dover |
HC | Margaret Wilkins | Never Too Late |
HC | Marion Duncan | Heaven |
C | Rose Hala | Sunday Bloody Sunday |
C | Nicky Barbour | Please Don’t Go |
ROSE TROPHY (Faction)
Judge : Evan Andrew
1st = | Gill Henderson | The Game |
1st = | Rose Hala | Tower Talk |
2nd | Tanya Gouws | Good Charlotte |
3rd | Marion Duncan | The Knotted Cord |
HC | Annie Glancey | Daddy’s Little Girl |
HC | Cheril Clarke | Trapped |
HC | Kelly Jeromson | The Hunger Winter |
C | Chris Curtis | Birth Pangs |
C | Margaret Wilkins | Bush Bride |
C | Allison Clark | The Alps Adventurer |