There were ten entries for this popular competition, in which a complete story must be told in exactly fifty words. Adjudicator Anne Powell said that she had found it hard to pick a winner from such a strong field, but Peter Page’s A1 versus Mount Olympus was the one that, due to its wit and topicality, most took her fancy. Carol Mayer came second with Da Vinci’s ‘Codex on the Flight of Birds’, the only entry this year to be written in verse. Third was Hoodlums in the Hood by Sheila Whitfield, the hoodlums in question being magpies.
Unfortunately, Peter was unable to attend the meeting to receive the Twinks Perugini Kenyon trophy, which will be delivered to him as soon as possible. Twinks was a keen member of RWG and her daughters take it in turn to adjudicate this competition inaugurated thirty years ago in honour of their late mother.
Anne is a writer herself and read some extracts from her novella Simple Dame Fairfax. It seems that there is far more to Mr Rochester’s housekeeper than is explained in Jane Eyre and several of us have bought copies to read Anne’s interpretation. She writes under the name Anna Bransgrove and copies can be ordered from bookshops or from Amazon.
