Saveas Writers’ International Writing Competition 2017

‘Love & Freindship’

Poetry

1st place - 'Long Live the King' by Michele Rose Boylan (Australia)

Joint 2nd place - 'Unbecoming' by Nancy Graham (Northern Ireland)

Joint 2nd place - 'Frank Churchill' (in three parts) by Derek Sellen

3rd place - 'Pride and Prejudice' by Maya Peris

Shortlisted

'Long Live the King' by Michele Rose Boylan (Australia)

'When I Spoke of Susan' by Graham Burchell

'Jane Austen in a Skip' by Jade Craddock

'Britain’s Got Talent' by Angela Croft

'Unbecoming' by Nancy Graham (Northern Ireland)

'Austenobilia' by Roger James

'Leonard Cohen pays Jane Austen an accidental visit in Elysium' by Rosemary Mcleish

'Pride and Prejudice' by Maya Peris

'Frank Churchill (in three parts)' by Derek Sellen

Prose

1st place - 'Mary Bennet Admires the Mute Swans' by Miranda Darrow (USA)

2nd place - 'Ease & Exertion' by Jessica Woodward

3rd place - 'Lyme Revisited' by Jant Stansfield

Shortlisted

'Mary Bennet Admires the Mute Swans' by Miranda Darrow (USA)

'Ease & Exertion' by Jessica Woodward

'Lyme Revisited' by Jant Stansfield

'Agony Aunt Jane' by Pamea Twoney (Ireland)

'Honour Thy Mother' by Bettina Daniel (USA) - updated 21.03.18

Longlisted

'Mary Bennet Admires the Mute Swans' by Miranda Darrow (USA)

'Ease & Exertion' by Jessica Woodward

'Lyme Revisited' by Jant Stansfield

'Agony Aunt Jane' by Pamea Twoney (Ireland)

'Honour Thy Mother' by Bettina Daniel (USA)

'Pleas and Persuasion' by Kathryn Burke

'Soul Sisters' by Judy Dermott

'An Ode to Sensibility' by Anne Marie Dade

'Ice and Fire' by Ellen Evers

'Loosening the stays of Jane Austen' by Derek Sellen

'After Box Hill' by Caroline Wheeler

Judges

Poetry: Professor Jan Montefiore from the University of Kent

Prose: Victoria Grainger, writer and illustrator

Prizes

First: £100

Second: £50

Third: £25

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Workshop

Poetry Report

Prose Report