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

　
Honours go to writers from England in competition
Judge Fiona Cooper has selected her winners for the May Global Short Story Competition and writers from England have taken the honours.

The £100 first place prize goes to Bernadette Keeling, of Leeds, for Street Cornered, of which Fiona says: “This astonishing story has more twists and turns than a corkscrew, all deftly executed and convincing. Somehow, the writer has managed to cover what, on TV, would be a double episode of suspense. It is rare to find such a pacy and densely packed tale, where atmosphere and character crackle to life, and the tension is completely sustained throughout. Excellent.”

Our highly commended runner up is Esther Newton, of Thatcham, Berkshire, who wins £25 for A Special Friend. Fiona says: “Well, talk about tugging heartstrings! This is a beautiful and clearly written story, evocative in some ways, of The Lovely Bones. Saying that, the plot is original and unique and engages the reader from the first challenging sentence. Adult wickedness is a true and abhorrent reality and the effect it has on a child is different in each case. Here, there is no judgement or unnecessary dwelling on detail, just the simple truth, and one of the best endings I’ve ever read. It does tug the heartstrings, but ultimately makes a joyous melody.”
The writers on the shortlist are:

Jack Frey, Westfield, New Jersey, United States

Juliet Hill, Madrid, Spain

Paul Freeman, United Arab Emirates

Charlotte Soares
Winning stories will be posted on www.inscribemedia.co.uk Well done to our successful writers. You can enter the July competition at the same address.

Free flash fiction competition launched
The team behind The Global Short Story Competition has launched its latest free flash fiction competition. The challenge to writers is to produce a story capturing ‘one of the best things in life’ in no more than 100 words.
The deadline is September 1, 2014. Prize £50 and you can enter at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Inscribemedia/183385438479538 The team at Inscribe Media, who run the competition, will judge it.

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/

Facebook
You can check out our Facebook page with its news, views and free competitions at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Inscribemedia/183385438479538

Mentoring and courses
For information on our 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

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. You can also check out our ebooks on Pinterest at http://gb.pinterest.com/inscribemedia/

Contacting us
You can contact us as deangriss@btinternet.com

Thank you for all your support

John Dean
Inscribe Media