© Thames Valley Writers’ Circle
Local Events
This page contains details of literary competitions and events run by TVWC and other local organisations such as the Berkshire Music and Arts Festival. The results, will be shown here. The entries to TVWC competitions are added to the Library (if we have them in digital form). Details of other local and national writing competitions brought to our notice are circulated to members by email. Two of our events are in recognition of the contributions of late members, to the TVWC. You can read about them on our In Memoriam page.24 Apr 2018
Iain Pattison Short Story Comp
Entries on the theme of “Anniversary” must be not more than 1500 words in length. Your entry (hard copy only) must be submitted to Sally no later than the close of the meeting on Tuesday 22nd May 2018. Your name must not appear on the pages of your entry. Instead, attach a sheet containing your name and the title of your entry. Sally will keep track of who wrote which story but Iain will not know the identities of the authors when judging. Iain is a well known judge of writing competitions. He will provide a written critique of each entry which in the past members have found very helpful. He will place the best three stories. Readings of the entries (and the critiques if members are happy to share them) will be on 19th June and Sally will then announce the winners. There were 15 entries to this year’s event… …and the winners were: 1. Act of Remembrance by David Burnell 2. Christmas and Birthday by Helen Collett 3. Magic George by Walter Jardine
2 Aug 2018
Summer Homework
A note from Les on this year’s competition. This year the theme is 'What a wonderful world, and funny too.' The word limit is 1250. I hope you have fun writing your story. Depending on the number of stories we will spread the readings over the first few weeks of our return, interspersed with other contributions.
26 Sep 2018
One Act Play Competition
Arthur Burke of Progress Theatre has changed the closing date for submissions to Nov 5th. He will attend our meeting on 13 November with critiques of the entries and will announce the first three places. Entries to be emailed to Arthur: arthurburke1@googlemail.com Rules remain as per the original email (TEN MINUTES MAXIMUM LENGTH etc).
5 Dec 2018
Arthur Redway Memorial Competition
The Results
1. Silent Night? A Different View David Baldock =2. Holes Nick Telepneff =2. Silent Night - or is it Sarah Cox The theme/title of the competition is ‘Silent Night’. Entries can be a short story or poem, any genre, maximum word count 1200. Send entries to Walter at webmaster@thamesvalleywriterscircle.org to arrive no later than 3 Jan 2019. You can also find this address on our website home page, near the top of the page. Please do not write your name on the actual entry. Everybody will then have until our first meeting back on 8th January 2019 to read through the entries - which will be uploaded on to our website Library page 2018 - and choose your favourites. Then email your votes for the top three in order of preference to Stuart on stuart@tilehurst.plus.com or intcoms@thamesvalleywriterscircle.org, and he will count up your votes. The top three stories will be read at the meeting on 8 Jan.
Feb 2019
Chris Mundy Memorial Poetry Competition 2019
Result:
1.
Majesty
Barbara O Smith
=2.
Some Higher Cloud
Les Willliams
=2.
Plastic Tears
Chloe Stoakes
Entries:
no more than 50 lines. The theme is The Kite.
Closing date:
email to Stuart by midnight of Sunday 10th March
Stuart will anonymise them before forwarding to Walter
who will upload them to the website.
Judging:
When you have read them all please email your
results(top 3 places) to Stuart by midnight 31st March.
Readings of all the entries will be on 2nd April, followed by the announcement of the winners and
presentation of the shield.
Barbara with the trophy
7 May 2019: Iain Pattison Judged Short Story Competition Announced
Requirements For This Year’s Event Length: Maximum of 1500 words. Theme: A modern take on a nursery rhyme or fable. Closing date: Hard copy to Sally no later than the meeting on 4 June 2019. Entry: On A4 paper, double spaced, 12pt font. Do not include your name on the story sheet(s). Instead, include a cover sheet with your identifying details (mouse- over/tap here to see a sample). Results: The results will be announced on 9 July, followed by readings of the entries and (optionally) the critiques. The readings may overflow to the following week’s meeting.
Iain Pattison
Iain is a full-time author, creative writing tutor
and competition judge. His short
stories have appeared in
numerous women’s
magazines, UK and US
anthologies and been
broadcast on BBC Radio 4.
We are very grateful to Iain
for his continued support of our
efforts to improve our writing.
© Thames Valley Writers’ Circle
Local Events
This page contains details of literary competitions and events run by TVWC and other local organisations such as the Berkshire Music and Arts Festival. The results, will be shown here. The entries to TVWC competitions are added to the Library (if we have them in digital form). Details of other local and national writing competitions brought to our notice are circulated to members by email. Two of our events are in recognition of the contributions of late members, to the TVWC. You can read about them on our In Memoriam page.
24 Apr 2018
Iain Pattison Short Story Comp
Entries on the theme of “Anniversary”
must be not more than 1500 words in
length. Your entry (hard copy only) must
be submitted to Sally no later than the
close of the meeting on Tuesday 22nd
May 2018.
Your name must not appear on the pages of your entry.
Instead, attach a sheet containing your name and the
title of your entry. Sally will keep track of who wrote
which story but Iain will not know the identities of the
authors when judging.
Iain is a well known judge of writing competitions. He will
provide a written critique of each entry which in the past
members have found very helpful. He will place the best
three stories.
Readings of the entries (and the critiques if members
are happy to share them) will be on 19th June and Sally
will then announce the winners.
There were 15 entries to this year’s event…
…and the winners were:
1. Act of Remembrance
by David Burnell
2. Christmas and Birthday
by Helen Collett
3. Magic George
by Walter Jardine
2 Aug 2018
Summer Homework
A note from Les on this year’s competition. This year the theme is 'What a wonderful world, and funny too.' The word limit is 1250. I hope you have fun writing your story. Depending on the number of stories we will spread the readings over the first few weeks of our return, interspersed with other contributions.26 Sep 2018
One Act Play Competition
Arthur Burke of Progress Theatre has changed the closing date for submissions to Nov 5th. He will attend our meeting on 13 November with critiques of the entries and will announce the first three places. Entries to be emailed to Arthur: arthurburke1@googlemail.com Rules remain as per the original email (TEN MINUTES MAXIMUM LENGTH etc).
5 Dec 2018
Arthur Redway Memorial Competition
The Results
1. Silent Night? A Different View David Baldock =2. Holes, Nick Telepneff =2. Silent Night - or is it, Sarah Cox The theme/title of the competition is ‘Silent Night’. Entries can be a short story or poem, any genre, maximum word count 1200. Send entries to Walter at webmaster@thamesvalleywriterscircle.org to arrive no later than 3 Jan 2019. You can also find this address on our website home page, near the top of the page. Please do not write your name on the actual entry. Everybody will then have until our first meeting back on 8th January 2019 to read through the entries - which will be uploaded on to our website Library page 2018 - and choose your favourites. Then email your votes for the top three in order of preference to Stuart on stuart@tilehurst.plus.com or intcoms@thamesvalleywriterscircle.org, and he will count up your votes. The top three stories will be read at the meeting on 8 Jan.
Feb 2019:
Chris Mundy Memorial
Poetry Competition 2019
Result:
1.
Majesty
Barbara O Smith
=2.
Some Higher Cloud
Les Willliams
=2.
Plastic Tears
Chloe Stoakes
Barbara with the trophy
7 May 2019: Iain Pattison Judged Short Story
Competition Announced
Length: Maximum of 1500 words. Theme: A modern take on a nursery rhyme or fable. Closing date: Hard copy to Sally no later than the meeting on 4 June 2019. Entry: On A4 paper, double spaced, 12pt font. Do not include your name on the story sheet(s). Instead, include a cover sheet with your identifying details (mouse- over/tap here to see a sample). Results: The results will be announced on 9 July, followed by readings of the entries and (optionally) the critiques. The readings may overflow to the following week’s meeting.
Iain Pattison
Iain is a full-time author, creative writing tutor
and competition judge. His short
stories have appeared in
numerous women’s
magazines, UK and US
anthologies and been
broadcast on BBC Radio 4.
We are very grateful to Iain
for his continued support of our
efforts to improve our writing.
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