Carillon Magazine

2008 OPEN MINISAGA COMPETITION

RESULTS & JUDGES’S COMMENT

Judging has been a difficult and time-consuming task for all three judges. Once we’d discarded those that broke the rules or didn’t follow the theme we were left with 104 valid entries which we trimmed by slow degrees to a short list of 12. As you can probably imagine, there were many disagreements along the way Three or four stories were demoted simply because they had too many misspelt words. On such small things hangs the fate of many an entry in many a competition when they otherwise have equal merit.

 The winning entries are published in issue 22 of Carillon Magazine

The winners are:

1st Prize:  Derek Taylor                     The DIY Gunpowder Plot    (£60.00)

2nd Prize: Andrew Beardmore           An Eye For An Eye            (£40.00)

3rd Prize:  Andrew Knighton              Remember Remember         (£20.00)

4th Prize:  Barbara Featherstone         Plot 73                               (£10.00)

The complete shortlist:

The DIY Gunpowder Plot                   Derek Taylor  (Lincoln)

An Eye For An Eye                            Andrew Beardmore  (Derby)

Remember Remember                        Andrew Knighton  (Macclesfield

Plot 73                                               Barbara Featherstone  (Bournemouth)

The Great Word Reorder Plot             Patrick Forsyth  (Maldon)

A Learning Experience                      Tom Greenwood  (Trowbridge)

The Coward                                      Derek Taylor  (Lincoln)

Dig For Victory                                 Ezna Lane  (Hove)

Changing the Course of History          Deanna Allan  (Corby)

Breakaway                                       Sheila Lockett  (Hinckley)

Where’s John?                                 Tracey Waterhouse  (Lincoln)

Plot of Gold                                      Christine Sutton  (Hornchurch)