Writer of the Year Awards
Every year we run the writer of the year competition where you compete with other writers to be the best. See our posts below for past competitions
- 2017 Winning Entries - Prose 1st Saffire Joraides-Israel for ‘Broken Wings of Love’ and ‘Writer of the Year’ (Prose Section) 2nd Annemarie Allan for ‘Sweet Dreams’ 3rd Andy Strachan for ‘The Goat Herder’ Commended: Lorna Dickson for ‘Kaleidoscope’ George Cunningham for ‘Ash to Ashes’ Poetry 1st Mike Davenport for ‘Dottir’ and ‘Writer of the Continue Reading
- A Message from Brenda - This year we experimented with a D.I.Y. WOTY. It worked – we got about 15 prose and 15 poetry entries, which allowed a reasonable spread of people to assess the entries, and the winning entries are now being posted on the website. We congratulate them all! Whether it worked well Continue Reading
- Writer of the Year 2017 - WOTY 2017 Awards for 2017 will be made at the AGM on Monday September 11th in the evening in Dalkeith Library.
2016 – Winning Entries - 2016 - Winning Entries Poetry 1st Place: Time Travel by Anne Shivas; 2nd Place: Swift Sonnet by Jock Stein; 3rd Place: Two Whelk Forks and a Letter by Michael Davenport; Highly Commended: A Richt Coorse Loon by Mary Johnston; Commended: On a Retreat at Beech Hill by Jock Stein. Prose 1st Place and Continue Reading
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