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LUIGI MARCHINI In aid of the charity Dementia UK

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SaveAs events

Saveas meets at the University of Kent

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Workshops on the third Monday of every Month from 7.00pm-9.30pm

saveas@hotmail.co.uk for details of venue

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

Thanks to all who attended the last Jolly Sailor evening and contributed to Luigi's Kilimanjaro hike. Total raised was £89. Please continue to support Luigi's fundraising efforts by attending the Quiz Night!

Entries are invited for a Creative Writing competition for short works of poetry or prose inspired, broadly or otherwise, by any character from a Charles Dickens novel. The competition is open to all writers and international submissions are welcome.

Deadline: August 15th 2012

Poems maximum length 50 lines; short stories maximum length 3,000 words
Entry fees - £2 per poem, £3 per prose piece

First Prize = £30 Second Prize = £20 Third Prize = £15

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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

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QUIZ NIGHT

Sunday 27th May

8pm

in aid of

dementia

Raffle, cash prizes, nibbles!

£2.00 per person

The Old Wine Vaults
75 Preston Street, Faversham
ME13 7PA

www.theoldwinevaults.com

Contact

luigimarchini@hotmail.com

Thanks to sponsors

Spice Lounge, Barley Mow

Gaslight Fish Bar

Jolly Sailor

Sunday 13 May

2012 at 6.30pm

Mark Akhurst

will read from his intriguing first novel

Zubin

and

a poetry reading in aid of
Dementia UK
by
Luigi Marchini
and
A BOOK RAFFLE

Please bring along any unwanted books
in good condition
to add to the raffle prizes and help to raise money for an excellent cause

Finally, there will be an Open Mic on the theme of CHALLENGES