Results from previous years:
2007 Poetry Competition
2006 Short Story Competition

2006 Poetry Competition
2005 Short Story Competition
2005 Poetry Competition
2004 Short Story Competition
2004 Poetry Competition

Competitions

cafe writers open poetry competition 2008

Many thanks to all entrants to our 2008 competition, and to
Penelope Shuttle for reading and adjudicating over 1250 entries.

Results:

1st Prize:            The chicken that saved my children:
                             
Victoria Rose Poolman

2nd Prize:            Mud:                          

                        Anneka Williams 
Joint
3rd Prize:   The radiologist and the consultant gynaecologist:
                             
Charlotte Gann
  
                     The woman who washed her hair in the orchard:
                              
David Grubb

Jarrold Norfolk Prize:             Cousins: Caroline Gilfillan

Shortlisted poems:

Herakles                                             Cameron Hawke Smith
It’s no good                                      
Rosie Shepperd
Thessalonians                                   
Christopher North
The man who spoke to owls            
David Grubb
Flint                                                    
Andrea Porter
Drowning Bittersweet                 
    Mandy Coe
The Khalif Spring                                
Fiona Walker
An ostrich farm in New Zealand      
Maitreya Bandhu
Seasonal (Norfolk)                             
Anne Reckin
The Death of Britney (Norfolk)         
Megan Dunn
The Shilling  (Norfolk)                    
   Simon Proctor
Eclipse  (Norfolk)                                
Simon Proctor
Island  (Norfolk)                                
Dot Cobley
Old Norfolk  (Norfolk)                    
    Jo Kjaer
Gathering Daylight
                        Lisa Hitchen

 Penelope Shuttle                        15/01/2009

           Winners and Winning Entries            Judge's Report