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FLASH FICTION COMPS 2020

Every month we have a writing competition that generally alternates between Flash Fiction and Poetry; although some months we have had plays and duologues. 


Below is a selection of the Flash Fiction Comps held from April 2020 to Dec 2020; plus links to other years.


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NOV 2020 - Theme: SONG TITLE

 1st Place: Helen Nicell - Baby Love

2nd Place: Helen Nicell - Girls Night In
3rd Place: Louise Welland - For A Dancer
4th Place: Ann Crago - Midnight At The Oasis 

Brian Bold - On Silent Wings (pdf)Download
Rosalie Bristow - As Titles Go (pdf)Download
Geoff Brown - Help (pdf)Download
David Elliott - Sultans of Swing (pdf)Download
Helen Gordon - What's in a name (pdf)Download
Kay Hall - When the ship comes in (pdf)Download
Lesley Kerr - Freedom - Sometimes the clothes do not make the man (1) (pdf)Download
Mike Lansdown - Mister (Waterloo Sunset) (pdf)Download
Chris McDermott - I Believe (pdf)Download
Helen Nicell - Baby Love (pdf)Download
Jan Rees - No particular place to go (pdf)Download
Ian Welland - The Garden (pdf)Download
Ian Welland - Westminster by any other name (pdf)Download
Louise Welland - For A Dancer extended version (pdf)Download
Louise Welland - For A Dancer (pdf)Download
Marion Witton - A Tale with a Tune (pdf)Download

OCT 2020 - Theme: HOME

 1st Place: Jan Rees - A Fresh Start

2nd Place: Helen Nicell - Home Sweet Home

Joint 3rd Place: Lesley Kerr - A Doll's House

Geoff Brown - A New Home

Brian Bold - Home and Away (pdf)Download
Geoff Brown - A New Home (pdf)Download
David Elliott - Home Front (pdf)Download
David Elliott - Home Run (pdf)Download
Helen Gordon - Grandma (pdf)Download
Kay Hall - The knock at the door - a true story (pdf)Download
Lesley Kerr - The Dolls House (pdf)Download
Mike Lansdown - A House is not a Home (pdf)Download
Chris McDermott - Where is it (pdf)Download
Andrea Neidle - My Life in a Bedsit (pdf)Download
Helen Nicell - Home Sweet Home (pdf)Download
Jan Rees - A Fresh Start (pdf)Download
Ian Welland - The House Life (pdf)Download

SEPT 2020 - Theme: THE YEAR 2020

 1st Place: Kay Hall - Wake Up Call

Joint 2nd Place: Louise Welland - Through The Rabbit Hole

Mike Lansdown - Twenty

4th Place: Helen Nicell - The Air of Discontent

Brian Bold - Somewhere there’s a place for us (pdf)Download
Geoff Brown - 2375 Return to Earth (pdf)Download
Ann Crago - The year I discovered space (pdf)Download
David Elliott - Statues in Parliment Square (pdf)Download
Kay Hall - Wake up call (pdf)Download
Mike Lansdown - Twenty (pdf)Download
Chris McDermott - 2020 VISION I May Have Lost my Vision, But I Can still be Heard. Or Can I (pdf)Download
Andrea Neidle - The Covid Years (pdf)Download
Helen Nicell - The Air of Discontent (pdf)Download
Ian Welland - Pandemic (pdf)Download
Louise Welland - Through The Rabbit Hole (pdf)Download
Angela Williams - Aunt Betty (pdf)Download
Jennie Willett - He was so handsome (pdf)Download

JULY 2020 - Theme: MUSEUM PIECE (BUSHEY)

This month's theme was to select a piece of art from the Bushey Museum and Gallery art collection.


 Joint 1st Place: Another Life: A Fairytale by Lesley Kerr; Framed by Brian Bold

2nd Place: Repeating The Pattern by Jan Rees

3rd Place: A Precious Secret by Mike Lansdown

Susan Bennett - Waiting (pdf)Download
Brian Bold - Framed (pdf)Download
Geoff Brown - Catching Up (pdf)Download
Ann Crago - Agony (pdf)Download
David Elliott - A Good Match by David Elliott (pdf)Download
David Elliott - Lucy and Gwen (pdf)Download
Helen Gordon - Metamorphosis (pdf)Download
Lucy Houbart - Irene's Secret Passion (pdf)Download
Kay Hall - Banished (pdf)Download
Kay Hall - The Waiting Room (pdf)Download
Lesley Kerr - Another Life (pdf)Download
Mike Lansdown - A Precious Secret (pdf)Download
Chris McDermott - Girl in Blue (pdf)Download
Andrea Neidle - Waiting (pdf)Download
Helen Nicell - The Quest (pdf)Download
Helen Nicell - The Storm (pdf)Download
Jan Rees - Repeating the Pattern (pdf)Download
Penny Rowland - Identical (pdf)Download
Penny Rowland - Social Bubble (pdf)Download
Helen Spisak - One Magical Autumn (pdf)Download
Ian Welland - Whistling on a Rainy Day (pdf)Download

JUNE 2020 - Theme: FACE AT THE WINDOW

1st Place: Chasing Pavements by Helen Nicell

2nd Place: Somebody I Used To Know by Ann Crago

3rd Place: Do You Ever by Jo Morgan

4th Place: The Victim by Pat Simpson

Susan Bennett - Lonely (pdf)Download
Brian Bold - The Witches of Easton (pdf)Download
Geoff Brown - A Fatal Mistake (pdf)Download
Ann Crago - Somebody I used to know (pdf)Download
David Elliott - Dead Mans Hand (pdf)Download
David Elliott- Take the shot (pdf)Download
Helen Gordon - How Many Tigers (pdf)Download
Kay Hall - Look Who It Is (pdf)Download
Mike Lansdown - Suburbia (pdf)Download
Chris McDermott - Just The One Of Us (pdf)Download
Jo Morgan - Do you ever (pdf)Download
Andrea Neidle - Fixation (pdf)Download
Helen Nicell - Chasing Pavements (pdf)Download
Pat Simpson - The Victim (pdf)Download
Helen Spisak - Three's A Crowd (pdf)Download
John Ward - Apparition (pdf)Download
Ian Welland - Cafe (pdf)Download
Louise Welland - Cool as a cucumber (pdf)Download

MAY 2020 - Theme: MUSEUM PIECE (WATFORD)

 This month's theme was to select a piece of art from the Watford Museum art collection:


1st Place: Waiting by Jan Rees

2nd Place: Winter Evening by Helen Nicell

3rd Place: Empty by Ann Crago

4th Place: The Great Deception by Geoff Brown

Brian Bold - A Nose for Riches Other (pdf)Download
Geoff Brown - A Strange Act of God (pdf)Download
Geoff Brown - The Great Deception (pdf)Download
Ann Crago - Empty (pdf)Download
David Elliott - By Faith and Fortitude (pdf)Download
David Elliott - Narrow Margins (pdf)Download
Kay Hall - the mirror crack'd (pdf)Download
Lesley Kerr - The Sower (pdf)Download
Mike Lansdown - First Stirrings (From a sunny window - painting prompt) (pdf)Download
Chris McDermott - A gentleman with a glove (pdf)Download
Claire McGovern - Three friends conversing - A Yarn (pdf)Download
Andrea Neidle - Old song New Words (pdf)Download
Helen Nicell - Winter Evening (pdf)Download
Jan Rees - Waiting (pdf)Download
Pat Simpson - Brandy, Lace and Tobacco (pdf)Download
Helen Spisak - Three Men Conversing Bristol 1810 (pdf)Download
John Ward - Three Men Conversing (pdf)Download
Ian Welland - The Old Mill House (pdf)Download
Louise Welland - Something Fishy (pdf)Download
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