Writing competition 2020: and the winners are

 

For the third time running, Waterloo Festival, in collaboration with Bridge House Publishing, organised a writing competition over the winter along the theme of Transforming Communities. Writers were invited to interpret freely the theme in a 1000-word story. And we can now announce the winners!

 

 

 

Mehreen Ahmed: Dolly
Gail Aldwin: The Price of Firewood

 

Christopher Bowles: Chroma

 

Maxin Churchman: Pulling Together

 

Jeanne Davies: Utopian Dream

 

Jo Dearden: A Small Clay Vase

 

Linda Flynn: Fishing in Troubled Waters

 

Anne Forrest: Number Twenty-seven

 

Dawn Knox: Rising from the Ashes

 

Roz Lyn: Circle Time

 

Paula R C Readman: Cobalt Blues
Hanna Retallick: Bookclub for the Elderly

 

Theresa Sainsbury: Transforming Teenagers

 

Allison Symes: Books and Barbarians

 
 
 

These stories will be published soon in a digital anthology. We will be organise an online-live event with Bridge House Publishing and the winners in mid-June. Stay tuned! In the meantime, you can access the past anthologies here:

 

 

2019: Transforming Being

 

2018: To Be…to Become

 
 
 
 
 

Bridge House Publishing is an independent publishing house that specialises in fiction which is a little bit different. We focus mainly on short story collections. Run by writers for writers we do it all for love but we like to give new writers a voice.