Newsletter

Hi everyone

Welcome to the latest newsletter from the team behind the Global Short Story Competition.


Honours go to writers from Australia and England in September competition
Judge Fiona Cooper selected her winners for the September Global Short Story Competition and writers from Australia and England took the honours.

The £100 first place prize went to Ruth Purdie-Smith, of Sydney, Australia, for Mother Nature. Our highly commended runner up was Yara Rodrigues Fowler, of London, England, who won £25 for The Story of Maddy Appletree.
The writers on the shortlist were:

Alexander Altman, Auckland, New Zealand

Jeff Taylor, Auckland, New Zealand

Siddhant VP, New Delhi, India

Anita Goodfellow, Marlow, Berkshire, England
Winning stories are posted on www.inscribemedia.co.uk You can enter the competition at the same address.





Honours go to Norway and New Zealand in August competition
Judge Fiona Cooper selected her winners for the August Global Short Story Competition and writers from Norway and New Zealand took the honours. The £100 first place prize went to Seth Townley, of Bergen, Norway, for Contemplating Breakfast. Sally Franicevich, of Auckland, New Zealand, was our £25 highly commended writer with her story Carole Anne.

The writers on the shortlist were:

Jonathan Elsom (for Blind Date)

Jonathan Elsom (for Many a Slip)

Philip Corwin, London, England

James Alexander Allen, Redhill, Surrey, England

Well done to all our successful writers.


Free stuff



There’s loads of free hints on writing at our blog at www.inscribemedia.co.uk and you can also check out our free writers’ toolbox, which can be downloaded off the home page at http://www.inscribemedia.co.uk/




Free flash fiction competition


We have launched our latest free flash fiction competition. It’s a real challenge - make us laugh or make us cry, make us feel wistful or make us feel angry, make us rebel or make us think, just as long as you make us feel something. And all in no more than 20 words. Deadline January 20, 2014. Prize £50. You can enter at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Inscribemedia/183385438479538




Poetry competition winner named
We named the winner of our recent free poetry competition also run on our Facebook page. The challenge was to stir emotions in no more than ten lines and the winner of the £50 prize was Chrissie Petrie.
　

Mentoring and courses



You can check out our new online writing courses and mentoring packages at http://www.inscribemedia.co.uk/writing-courses---bespoke-mentoring.html




Nurturing new talent through our e-books


A reminder that, as part of our efforts to support and showcase new writing talent worldwide, we have published seven e-books.



They include the two latest to be published:

Lost Souls by Roger Barnes When young women start to go missing in Africa, an International Strike Force is assembled to rescue them.

Harry’s Torment by Michael Beck Set in the fictional east coast port of Thirlston and centred on investigators tackling the heroin trade.


Previously published were:
Cyber Rules by Myra King. The novel by Australian writer Myra tells the story of a farmer’s wife in isolated rural Australia. Caught up on the addictive side of the Internet, she holds a secret which may prove to be deadly.

Global Shorts - an anthology of short stories taken from the early years of the Global Short Competition.

Vegemite Whiskers - a selection of some of the finest writing from Australian authors who have entered the Global Short Story Competition.

White Gold by Roger Barnes A thriller by Roger Barnes taking the reader into a world of intrigue and danger set amid the poachers of Africa.

Haghir the Dragon Finder by John Dean, a comic fantasy for older children. Haghir

and his hopeless comrades are dragon slayers seeking a new challenge.

All the titles can be obtained by keying their titles into the search field of the Kindle shop at www.amazon.co.uk Australian readers will have to purchase via Amazon US at www.amazon.com



* If you don’t have a Kindle, there is a free Kindle reading app for your PC at

http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000493771




* You can find more about the books on our website.


Contacting us



You can contact us as deangriss@btinternet.com




Thank you for all your support

John Dean

Inscribe Media