21st Nov 17. - Adjudication and Readings of the General Short Story.
A change to the syllabus – Feedback from the SAW Conference
is put back until 17 April 2018.
Fifteen members were present including a returned Sandra McGruther
who was able to tell us of success with her “Still Dark” paper backs and provided
anecdotes from her promotional tours in North America.
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Ann MacKinnon had selected her ‘first five’ from the fourteen
entries for the 2000 word General Short Story Competition. For the first time,
the Erskine and SAW selection of 2000 as the numbers of words coincided; These
same entries are therefore also available to enter competitions at the Scottish
Writers Association Conference in March 2018. As a result of that, no details
of the authors, titles or subjects are being included in this blog.
The five stories were read out in order of:- commended,
highly commended, third, second and first.
With readings and comments, there was only sufficient
time for those five entries. If the quality of the first five is anything to go
by, we can still look forward to hearing the remainder at another time.