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The News Box! 08/06/10 Updates! Many updates! This years poetry competition has ended (awaiting results) and the Short Story competition has been launched! Members will be happy to see our Joan Nicholson comp picture and results. Hopefully. ------ 25/02/10 Whee! Its another year as we have finally noticed, so in that spirit, a new draft calendar is available in the Annual Events section. there is even a black and white printer friendly version! Fancyness! ------ 15/02/09 Hello there! Members only update here - New poetry in forum section, new photos in pictures section, new competition in new photos. Enjoy members! ------ 16/12/09 There's no news like old news, the results from our 2009 Short Story Competition are now available! Also, some of the winners have kindly allowed their stories to be sloshed about these pages, so please go enjoy. Members, you get a treat too! if you go to the Forum section, a new bit has been added containing links to our various group photo sessions, so you can laugh at yourselves all over again. -------- 3/12/09 News! There is news! News is happening now! The 2009 Short Story Comp has been judged and the results will be available soon, plus the chance to read the winners. Arent we good to you? -------- 31/10/09 Greetings all, the main notable events in this update are: The end of this years short story competition, some additions to the external opportunties section and some other minor fixes nobody will ever notice. --------- 16/09/09 - Hello Writers, Speculators and Fancy-pants Artists! This is the instigation of the nice shiny News Box, keeping the world marginally more up to date about the goings on of the SWC group and site. Previous visitors may gasp in awe at our new-fangled look, with inkblot heading, colour scheme and this selfsame News Box, while others may be more interested in the addition of the Poetry Competition 2010 details and also a mysterrrrious link at the top to External Opportunities. What could it all mean? Stay tuned folks!

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First prize £200: Second prize £100: Third prize £50

Closing date 31st October 2010

Chief Judge: Gill Sanderson
Gill (aka Roger) is a noted Harlequin Mills and Boon romantic author and has had work translated into many languages worldwide. He has been interviewed for The Times, The Mail and the BBC as well as several other highly regarded periodicals. He is a member of the Romantic Novelists Association and believes strongly in the craft of writing.

Rules
• Your entry should be an unpublished, original story on any theme of up to 2000 words.
• Don’t put your name on your story but do give it a title.
• You don’t need an entry form. Send us a cover sheet for each entry with the story’s title, word count, your name, address, telephone number and e-mail address for results.
• The fee is £3.00 for each story. You can pay by cheque or postal order made out to Southport Writers’ Circle.

Copyright remains with the author but winning entries will be displayed on the Southport Writers’ Circle website for 12 months.

Send entries to: Short Story Competition
Southport Writers’ Circle
Flat 3
35 Saunders Street
Southport
Merseyside
PR9 0JH

If you have no e-mail please supply SAE for results.
Winners will be informed early in December.

Optional “green” entries – single spacing welcome!

Congratulations to the winner of our 2010 Joan Nicholson competition, Dorothy Burgess. The competition was set by our very own Kate Conlon, who gave us the chilling topic of 'Revenge!'. The standard of entries was extremely high and the styles were greatly varied - from poems to articles to a short play. Dorothy shone through however, deposing the previous years winner Dennis, who was presented with a small commemorative shield.

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