'The 2^nd Annual Ted Walters International Short Story and Poetry Competition 2008'

The winning entries are as follows…         

Poetry Section: Winners!

 

1^st prize went to Mandy Coe from Liverpool, with 'Life is Simple.'

2^nd Prize went to James Bostock from Liverpool, with 'Romance.'

The two entrants who are the shared third place prize-winners are, Danny Margetts from Liverpool, with 'If Christ came from Liverpool' and also Alice Harrison from Rhyl, North Wales, with 'Judy.'

 

Poetry Section: Short Listed.

 

Martin Domeleo from Preston, Lancashire; with 'The Assessors.'

Florence Delaney from London; with 'Excise.'

Dorothy Nelson from Wigan, Lancashire, with, 'Afternoon.'

Shirley Buckley from Middlesex; with 'Anonymous in the City.'

Duncan Parkes from the Wirral, Merseyside; with 'Chemical Attack.'

Roger Darby from Ainsdale, Southport; with 'This Poem.'

 

Short Story Section: Winners!

 

1^st Prize went to Lynn Voyce from the West Midlands; with 'The day the Dunes caught fire.'

2^nd Prize went to Cassandra Passarelli from Guatemala; with 'The Lift.'

The two entrants who are the shared place prize winners are, Christopher Parvin from Ormskirk, Lancashire; with 'Vanilla Grave Dirt.' And Jackie Morrisey from Dun Loaghaire, Southern Ireland; with 'Better than a Cat.'

 

Short Story: Short Listed.

Paul McGuire from Southport, Merseyside; with 'Alice's Bones.'

Maria MacSweeney from Drogheda, Southern Ireland; with 'Rendezvous.'

Katie Myers from Liverpool; with 'Me Dad.'

Andrew Dutton from Derbyshire; with 'How we got where we are today.'

Sean Heslyn from Southport, Merseyside; with 'Snow Globe.'

Sian Hughes from London; with 'The Darras.'