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Cardiff Writer's Circle: Annual Short Story Competition


It was a joy to return to Cardiff Writers' Circle to judge their annual Short Story Competition ...  Congratulations all! Here's their round up of the night:

Throwback to Monday 23rd June, when we were thrilled to have 12 attendees join us for the Adjudication Event of our annual Short Story Competition - the winner and runners-up were announced, received their prizes, and graciously allowed pics to be taken for posterity! 📸
A huge round of applause goes to our winner, Gordon Harrop, who is fresh to CWC competitions. Gordon's winning entry served up some diabolical black humour, with a dark twist. Congratulations Gordon, and thank you for submitting such an entertaining and well-written piece! 👏🏆🎉
Gordon was joined on the podium by two of our long-standing members, Steve Pritchard and Angela Edwards Rigby, who are no strangers to receiving CWC awards and prizes. It was wonderful to hear their competition entries - Steve's story a page-turning "will-they-won't-they" following two elite athletes in the run-up to career-defining events, and Angela's a comical slice of life and small-town conflict in a sleepy parish.
A massive thanks to our competition judge, celebrated writer Susie Wild, for her thoughtful and insightful feedback 🙏 Susie is the published author of an award-winning short story collection and poetry collections, and of flash fiction in Wales Arts Review. She is Parthian's publishing editor specialising in fiction and poetry, and editor of the New Welsh Review. Susie judged our Short Story Competition three years ago, and it was a joy to have her return - she is an exceptional facilitator, and her feedback was invaluable 💎


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