Exeter Writers

We were pleased to get an email from Jim Kroepfl, who regular readers will recall was awarded both 2nd and 3rd place in our 2013/14 Short Story Competition. Jim submitted his 3rd-place story, The Front Line , to the Midway Journal literary contest.... and we're delighted to hear that the story has been placed. As the Midway Journal wishes to publish The Front Line , we've temporarily removed the story from our website. Our warmest congratulations to you, Jim!

This writing business means that there's often something new coming out and this week we have two new publications; Elizabeth Ducie's The Business of Writing is now available in paperback as a single volume.   Originally published as three separate e-books, this useful book provides a simple road map for writers who want to set up and run their own small business.     Meanwhile Sophie Duffy, Cathie Hartigan and Margaret James are looking forward to Christmas with A Christmas Celebration , a compendium of stories, quizzes and puzzles.   Both are available in paperback and on Kindle.

Tracey Glasspool Elizabeth Ducie Exeter Writers members, Tracey Glasspool and Elizabeth Ducie are delighted to have both won prizes in the 2015 Writers Reign Short Story Competition.

A group of writers prepares to boldly go... What do writers do all day? When they're not writing, they're imagining, and sometimes they go on outings to fascinating places, which is what a group of Exeter Writers did yesterday.

OBITUARY It is with great sadness that I record the death of my husband, Ray Girvan, whom many of you have known for some time. Ray and I joined Exeter Writers in about 1998, but he soon decided that, as a technical rather than a literary writer, the group wasn’t really for him and left. He remained a presence in the group, however, coming to social occasions and managing the website, which he did for several years until he became too ill to continue.

Congratulations to Ceri Lowe-Petraske who has won this year's competition with her wonderful story The Parrots of Peckham Rye. You can see the full results, including shortlisted and longlisted entries, and read the winning stories, by clicking here .

The Parrots of Peckham  by Ceri Lowe-Petraske ‘It’s dislocated,’ says the doctor and gives one of those polite closed coughs. Mama watches, her mouth open as it is usually given to being, gawping at the whiteness of the counter and the whiteness of the thin medical bed cover and, most of all, the whiteness of the doctor. She yanks up my shorts so my buttocks don’t show.