Prize winning story in Scribble
I have just heard that my short story, In Search of a Hero, which was published in the autumn edition of Scribble magazine has been voted the best short story of the issue and hence I have won first prize £75.00 – yay!
Scribble is a small press magazine edited by a very nice man called David Howarth and they run ongoing short story competitions. How it works is that you submit your story, along with your entry fee of £3.00 and he prints the best of these (in his opinion) and the readers vote on them. Then in the next issue, they announce the results of the vote and also – and this is rather nice – they print readers’ comments in the back of the issue on all of the stories in the previous issue.
My story was a male viewpoint story about a guy returning home after his brother had been killed. I was rather fond of this story. Woman’s Weekly nearly published it once, but decided against it in the end. It wasn’t really quite a magazine story, but I didn’t want to leave it mouldering in a drawer – well on my PC anyway – so it was lovely to find a home for it, and even lovelier to discover that other people liked it and thought it was the best.
I haven’t seen the issue of Scribble it’s in yet, so I don’t know if I had any nice comments, a friend of mine told me about it. But a nice way to start the day!
Link to Scribble if anyone would like to take a look.
Maggie May
The Scribble competitions looks good – I’ve put them in my ‘favourites’ so thanks for that Della. Congratulations on being voted the best story.
Happy Christmas to you and your family.
Patsy Collins
Congratulations, Della.
I’ll go take a look at the competitions as I intend to enter more next year.
Leigh Forbes
Congrats for the early xmas pressie – that’s a bonus!
Thanks for the link. I’ll take a look. I need to keep the momentum going :o)