Report of the Competitions’ Secretary to the Annual General Meeting 2025

 

Annual Competitions 2024.

I am pleased to report we had sufficient entries for these competitions, to be able to run all five competitions.  The total number being 74 up by 12 on the previous year.   Many thanks to all who entered.  The winning and placed entries have been included in our Anthology 2024. All members should by now have received their free copy. Thank you also to Gill and Martin for all their work in producing the anthology, also for sponsoring the £50 prize for the cover photo competition once more.

 

Open Flash Fiction Competition 2024

 This competition was again well supported with a total of 90 entries being received, despite incorrect details being published in Writing Magazine.

The winner was Jean Celine Blakely with “Parting”. A member of LAA.

 All details including several finalists’ 100 word stories were published on the LAA website and the winning story in the LAA Anthology. 

 Our thanks go to Compass Fostering for their sponsorship of the £100 prize.

 Dialect Writers Please note

 I was delighted to receive 18 entries for possible inclusion in the 2024 anthology. As agreed the Scholes Cup was awarded to the member whose dialect item was chosen, Sally James.  All submissions were considered by an independent adjudicator of dialect. As this was not a competition in the full sense of the word, no prize was given. However as more than ten submissions were received then in 2025 we are running a dialect competition for the Scholes Cup. The winner of that competition will be included in the anthology 2025.

 

Olive Riley

 

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