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Pick Your Prize Competition 2009

About the Competition

This is Writer’s Forum’s first attempt at running a competition and if successful you will see many more to come.

This was a poetry writing competition, with a slight difference. The winner had to choose his, or her choice of three prizes, the two runner ups will then choose from the remaining two prizes. All entries were judged and a shortlist created. The 15 shortlisted entries were all posted on the writer’s forum website and the winner was published in the newsletter. The competition was free to enter and ran from 3rd January to the 28th of February.


The Theme
For this competition, we asked you to consider a theme for your entries.

The theme was: inspiration.


'Pick Your Prize' Winners 2009

We would like to congratulate the following entrants whose poems are our prize winning entries.

1st Place: My Inspiration, by Grace Gant

2nd Place: Inspired by a friend - my hero, by Samantha Louise

3rd Place: The Poet's Creation, by Patricia Preece


'Pick Your Prize' Honorable Mentions 2009

We would like to congratulate the following entrants whose poems just missed out on the prizes.

Ingleborough, by Jim Bennett

and

Pong of Praise, by Hil Jennings (Removed by Request)


'Pick Your Prize'  Shortlisted entries 2009

We would like to congratulate the following entrants whose poems made the shortlist.


Eclipse, by Caroline Baldock


Inspired by the lay of the Land, by Jackie Grice


Childhood Dreaming, by Veronika Jordan


Dad, by Stephen Messham


Overlays, by Mandy Pannett


I wish I could write like Pam Ayres, by Elizabeth Stevenson


The Trouble with my Inspiration, by Joanna Harker


Inspiration is:, by Jeanette Cropper


What of the Wonderful Scenes, by Affia Mustafa


Inspired by Welsh, by Serena van Sickle

Your Comptition Here?

Do you or anyone you know run a creative writing competition?

Could it benefit from publicity here?

If so drop us a line at info@writers-forum.co.uk

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