Congratulations
to Deborah Arnander who has won our new national prize for women writers over
40 in our prose competition this year and Melissa Fu who has won our regional
prize for women writers living and working in the East of England. Deborah won for her fantastic story The Wife,
and Melissa won with her elegiac non-fiction piece Suite For My Father.
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| Deborah Arnander |
Deborah was born in
Northumberland but spent her childhood in Thailand. She has a PhD in French literature, and works
as a translator. She won an Escalator
award in 2010, when she began her first, soon to be completed novel, The Cinderella Watch, which was
shortlisted in 2014’s TLC/PEN Factor competition. She has published stories in Unthology One and Words and Women One and Three,
all with Unthank Books, and poetry in the webzine Ink, Sweat and Tears. She is
married with two children.
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| Melissa Fu |
Melissa grew up in Northern New Mexico and lives in
Cambridge. Her work appears in Words and Women:Two, Bare Fiction, Envoi, Right
Hand Pointing, and other publications. With backgrounds in physics
and English, she spent many years working in education, both as a teacher and a
consultant. In 2014 Melissa combined her loves of writing and teaching to
start Spilling The Ink, a
small business offering creative writing courses and coaching.
Deborah wins £1,000 and a month long writing retreat,
generously sponsored by Hosking Houses
Trust, and Melissa wins £600 and a mentoring session with Jill Dawson of Gold
Dust. Both will have their work
published in our fourth
anthology Words And Women: Four
published by Unthank Books, which
will be launched at our International Women’s Day celebration at the Nunns Yard
Gallery in Norwich in March. (We will release more details about our
celebration at the end of this month.)
There are also 22 other writers whose scripts will be published in our
anthology.
Our guest
judge for this year was Naomi Wood,
author of The Godless Boys and the
bestseller Mrs. Hemingway. All entries were judged anonymously
and the unveiling of the names of the winning writers at the end of the process
was very exciting! ‘The chosen stories,’ says Naomi, ‘are fresh and clever and dynamic.’
Over the next few days
Words And Women will be posting photos and short biographies of all of our
successful writers. Also Words And Women will be busily editing and shaping the
anthology for publication. More news about this will be posted on our blog in due
course.
Finally, Words And Women
would like to say thank you to everybody who entered the competition. The
quality of work, as always, was outstanding.
The winning entries:
NATIONAL PRIZE FOR WOMEN
WRITERS OVER THE AGE OF 40 OF £1,000 & ONE MONTH’S WRITING RETREAT
SPONSORED BY HOSKING HOUSES TRUST and PUBLICATION IN WORDS AND WOMEN: FOUR = Deborah Arnander for her short
story The Wife.
REGIONAL PRIZE FOR WOMEN
WRITERS BASED IN THE EAST OF ENGLAND OF £600 & A MENTORING SESSION WITH
JILL DAWSON OF GOLD DUST and PUBLICATION IN WORDS
AND WOMEN: FOUR = Melissa Fu for her non-fiction piece Suite For My Father.
PUBLICATION IN WORDS AND WOMEN: FOUR =
Jamilah Ahmed - Leaving The
Home That Made Me – Non-Fiction
Kate Harmond Allan - Sunday
Tea – Memoir
Margaret Callaghan - Pull of
Distance – Fiction
Tricia Cresswell - Future
Perfect – Fiction
Louise Dumayne - The Bear –
Non-Fiction
Kate Feld - Dear Shadow –
Non-Fiction
Lilie Ferrari - Sorry
Business – Fiction
Pia Ghosh-Roy – A Tree Full
of Ghosts – Non-Fiction
Guinevere Glasfurd - The
Last Card – Fiction
Sara Gowen - Wedad –
Non-Fiction
Anna Metcalfe - A Punch Up
At The Wedding – Fiction
Clare Morgan - Thiruvega –
Fiction
Helen Morris - There’s a Wee
Bomb Upstairs – Fiction
Shiona Morton - The Boy in
The Bivouac – Fiction
Nasrin Parvaz - The Time of
Assassinations – Fiction
Marianne Picton - Memory
Thief – Fiction
Ronne Randall - The Talent
Show – Non-Fiction
Kate Robinson - Komodo Dragon – Non-Fiction
Cherise Saywell - Private Parts
– Fiction
Victoria Shropshire -
Beauregard’s Last Walk – Fiction
Penny Simpson - Winter’s Map
– Fiction
Mary White – Some Adjustment
Required - Fiction
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