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Shortlisted for the Culture Awards 2013

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SaveAs Writers' Group

meets at the University of Kent. Workshops on the 3rd Monday of every Month 7.00pm-9.30pm

To read at sessions or join our mailing list please email saveas@hotmail.co.uk

ANOTHER GREAT SAVEAS WRITERS' COMPETITION

SHAKESPEAREAN WRITING

Closing date 24 August 2013

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*** Free Shakespearean Writing Workshop ***

for SaveAs Members run by Luigi Marchini

Monday 10 June, 7pm at the Jolly Sailor

THIS MONTH AT

THE JOLLY SAILOR, NORTHGATE,
CANTERBURY
Sunday 9 June 2013 at 6.30pm

Fiona Sinclair
who will read from her latest collection

Wonderland

An evening not be missed.

Come and share your own work
at the ever popular Open Mic!

more info here

SUNDAY 14th April 2013
6.30pm

LYNNE REES

Big thanks to Lynne Rees who returned to Canterbury to read from her latest collection Forgiving the Rain and her acclaimed début collection Learning How to Fall .

The evening was rounded off by a round of readings in the popular Open Mic. See you next time.

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SaveAs Writers'

2012 INTERNATIONAL
POETRY & PROSE COMPETITION

WINNERS
Awards Evening
10 February 2013 , The Jolly Sailor, Canterbury

PROSE

1st Prize: 'The Raft' - Gillian Laker read
2nd Prize: 'Baby Blue' - Fiona Scoble read
3rd Prize:'Homesick' - Sara Green

Highly Commended
'76' - Gary Studley read
'No Talking After Lights Out' - Geralyn Pinto read

POETRY

1st Prize: 'Four Square' - Roger James read
2nd Prize: 'i.m. E.F., who lived next door' - Alan Gleave read
3rd Prize: 'Goodbye Bengal' - Jenifer Kahawatte read

Highly Commended
'Insomnia' - Alan Gleave read
'Snipe' - Geraldine Aldridge

Big thanks to the judges
Abegail Morley (Poetry) and Sonia Overall (Prose)

and Luigi for his tireless work in organising the competition!

Judges' Reports
Prose - Sonia Overall
Poetry - Abegail Morley

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL WINNERS AND SHORTLISTED WRITERS

AND THANKS TO ALL WHO ENTERED.

And the Winner is ....

POETRY

1st Place: Louisa Gradgrind - by Roger James, Kent read

2nd Place: Flares, Grade II Listed Building - by Ralph Ockendon, West Midlands read

3rd Place: Flora Finching, Waking Up in 2012, is Offered a Library Book - by Jenny Dawson, Lincolnshire read

Shortlisted

For what we are about to receive - by Julia Deakin, Yorkshire read
His Last Hour - by Geralyn Pinto, India read
The Forgotten Nelly - by Nancy Charley, Kent read

Judges Report

PROSE

1st Place: The Final Words of John Steadman - by Nick Banks read

2nd Place: Little Wem - by Victoria Grainger read

3rd Place: Great Expectations Charles Dickens The Novel Factory - by Luke Melia

Shortlisted

sewing glass into velvet by Hannah Morley read
Nameless by Anne Armstrong read
Headstone by Katie Lumsden read
Convert by Monique Hayes read

Judges Report

Congratulations to the winners and shortlisted writers.

Big thanks to all who entered the competition and who attended the wonderful awards evening at the Dominican Priory in Canterbury.

And the winner is .....

SaveAs Writers 2011
Competition Awards Evening

11 March 2012, The Jolly Sailor, Canterbury

PROSE
1st Prize: 'A Tea Party' - Maria McCarthy
2nd Prize: 'Magnets' - Roger James
3rd Prize: 'Day Lilies' - Mary Anne Smith

POETRY
1st Prize: 'Meteor Shower, Isere' - Marilyn Donovan
2nd Prize: 'Gun' - Roger James
3rd Prize: 'Brontes' - Alan Gleave

with a special guest appearance by
Nancy Gaffield
reading from the prize winning, and very much acclaimed, collection Tolkaido Road .

Judges' Reports
Prose - Nancy Gaffield
Poetry - Sarah Jackson

SAVEAS WRITERS

Siege of Canterbury Millennial Competition Results

Prose competition

Winners:

1st: Marilyn Donovan Scriptorium 2nd Jo Field In the Enemy Camp.

3rd: Patricia Griffin For Love and Money. Honourable mention: Jeremy Langrish 1012: The Millers Arms; Backroom Banter, Others shortlisted; Marilyn Donovan Deliver us from Evil, Lorraine Hayward 2011: The Fall of the Spirit of Canterbury.

Adjudicator's Report (Prose): Luigi Marchini

Poetry competition

Winners:

1st: Derek Sellen The Siege of Canterbury 2nd: Sonia Overall Unready 3rd: Nicky Gould Valkyrie.

Honourable mentions: Gillian Laker Palm Sunday, Jo Field Gold is the Colour, Ron Ogilvie A Witness Worth of Words, Ruth Henderson The Siege of Canterbury

Adjudicator's Report (Poetry): Chris Hobday

Conversation Poetry

YOUR WRITING GROUP
NEEDS YOU!

SaveAs Writers' Group has been shortlisted for a prestigious award and the final selection is down to a public vote

"East Kent People’s Award" Category

"For a cultural organisation in East Kent which demonstrates engagement with its local community, popularity across the region and continuing efforts in developing existing and new audiences."

We are up against giants - and we think we're the only non-funded, voluntary organisation on the list. We need all the help we can get.

PLEASE VOTE

and please pass on the good news
to SaveAs Members old and new.

CLOSING DATE

FOR VOTING

Monday 11 June 2013 at 5pm