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Good news! SWCIPC 2017 has been judged! We will be contacting the winners shortly and having an award evening on the 6th July at the usual venue to officially announce results after the usual checks and so forth have been done.

Why not come down and listen to judge Carole Baldock’s wise rulings and maybe pick up some tips for future poems?

Thank you a lot to all the many who entered, but sadly the comp is now closed for entries this year and the shortlist stack is being prepared ready to be mulled over by our chief judge Carole Baldock.

Results will be publicly available from late June, however if circumstances require extra judging time, we would appreciate patience. Each year we get entrants who get a bit excited by the thrill of the race and try to spur us on, but we would like to assure those people in advance that it is all being sorted and worthy winners will be announced when the time is right.

This years Joan Nicholson Internal Competition was a hard fought battle, but in the end, Barbara Marsh (top) won with her short story “When The Pipes Are Calling”, the trophy presented by our guest judge Carol Fenlon. Well done Barbara!