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WriteWords
Winners' Announcement
Our annual WriteWords competition is currently closed for submissions. Details of the 2023 competition will be posted on this page, and on our social media platforms, in due course.
Congratulations to the winners and runners-up of WriteWords 2022
Flash Fiction
Winner
Vertigo by Valerie Fox
Runner-up
He Doesn't Believe in Ghosts
by Geoff Mead
Poetry
Winner
Wild Weather by Tina Cole
Runner-Up
Cockpit Voice Recorder
by Germain Canon
Short Stories
Winner
Animal by Mary Francis
Runner-up
The Entertainer
by Kate O'Grady
The following entries made it onto the WriteWords 22 shortlist.
A Pilot’s Ponderings - Shari L Lane
Afterparty - Robyn Jefferson
Almost Like a Heart - Jason Jackson
Everything We Needed - Kate Bird
Holme Wood - Sam Saxton
Paired Corners - Rose Lennard
That book by the man that travelled - Ruth Brandt
The Barn - Kate O'Grady
The Miller’s Daughter - Sarah Carleton
This is what brave looks like - Anne Summerfield
Who could you stand to kiss - Nancy Connors
Wilfrid Fox, veteran physician and arborist, embarks again - Sarah Hill Wheeler
Wonky Syntax - Aneeta Sundararaj
Judges' comments will be published in our WriteWords 22 issue which will be online shortly