Exeter Writers

Congratulations to Lucy Welch, Winner of the 2015 Exeter Novel Prize! Pictured here with the finalists: Lucy Ayrton, Louise Mangos, Lucy Welch (winner), Lizzie Lamb, Christopher Holt (and Mark Dlugash, not pictured)

Thank you to everyone who entered.  The winners will be announced in July 2016. 1st, 2nd and 3rd prizes, as well as the winner of the Devon Prize will be published on the Exeter Writer's website. Good luck! We are looking forward to reading all your entries.

There's still time to enter the Exeter Writer's Short Story Competition! First prize £500 Second prize £250 Third prize £100 Plus a prize for writers in Devon of £100

 (by Jan Cascarini). How many times have I said to myself, ‘Tomorrow… I’ll start writing tomorrow, once I’ve got this out of the way’? This, of course, being anything from emailing the phone company about a discrepancy in my latest bill to spring cleaning the entire house. (Needless to say, the house is only ever cleaned in fits and starts.)

Exeter Writer, Angela Wooldridge is joining writers around the world in a Storytime Blog Hop this week. Click on the link to read 'Uninvited Guests' . Then follow the links at the bottom to nine more tales of speculative fiction.   Angela's flash fiction story 'Room Mates', features on the MashStories podcast this month.

Member Elizabeth Ducie is hoping a recent competition success is a sign of things to come. Elizabeth is currently working on her second novel, Counterfeit! , which is set in Southern Africa and deals with dodgy goings-on in the pharmaceutical industry. It is the first in a series of three novels, featuring three strong female protagonists.

What do you write?   Short stories and novels – my debut novel, Secret of the Song , was published in September 2015. I’m also the co-author of a series of non-fiction guides for writers. When and where do you write?    The spare room is my office and it’s there I do most of my writing and the admin for CreativeWritingMatters, including all the competitions we run. Consequently, you can hardly see the surface of my desk, so when I can, I go to the Devon and Exeter Institution in Cathedral Yard. It’s a wonderful library as well as a great place to write with no distractions. http://www.creativewritingmatters.co.uk http://www.devonandexeterinstitution.org