Thanks to everyone who entered the 2010 WARM Writers Competition and congratulations to the winners, announced at the Presentation Dinner on 17 June 2010.

The winners are:

Category 1:  Open short story - maximum 2500 words

1st:   Bryan Ward - “Come to Bristol”

2nd:  Peter Nolan - “Penny Dreadful”

Highly commended:           

• Peta Miller - “The Lie”
• BP Marshall - “The Late Express”
• Brian Gram - “A Degree of Guilt”
• Peter Smith - “Lost and Found”

Readers Choice:  Morgana McLeod  - “Recoil”
 

Category 2:  Open poem – maximum 40 lines

1st:   John McMaster - “2am”          

2nd:  Bryan Ward - “The Hydra’s Teeth”          

Highly commended:

• Suzanne Strong - “Breath”
• Bryan Ward - “The Sound of your Blood”
• John McMaster - “Young Lovers”                                  
  

Readers Choice: John McMaster  - “Pacific Prologue”
 

Category 3: Young adult short story (Grades 8-12) - maximum 1500 words

1st:    Madalyn Bayliss - “Listen”

2nd:   Jack Burnham - “In the Line of Fire”

Highly commended:

• Tahlia Baumann - “Dare”
• Madalyn Bayliss - “Choose Your Fate”
• Miranda Rew-Duffy - “As Per Gus’ Syndrome”
  

Readers Choice:            Madalyn Bayliss - “Listen”
 

Category 4: Junior short story (Grades 5-7) – maximum 1500 words

1st:    Chiara Guidotti - “Ingane Indloru”

2nd:   Isabelle Blackstone - “Mythika”

Highly commended:

• Lucy Connolly - “Finding Utopia”

Readers choice: Julian Gordillo - “Drone XL41”           

Check out the WARM Writing Competition page to view the winning entries