A Big Adventure With Benjamin Scott

This evening Benjamin Scott returned to Norwich Writers' Circle for our Children's Adventure Story Competition adjudication.

The freelance writer commented on the competition entries in a variety of ways, these included that the stories:

• Focused on a boy, as per his original recommendations
• Had an adventure element that made your heart race
• Had a strong, logical, emotional and narrative flow
• Featured an interesting central character
• Were appropriate as short stories, and not as longer prose
• Did not use the word 'that' needlessly
• Had been proof read, with any mistakes corrected

After hearing Ben's valued feeback, we then heard a selection of the winning entries. As with our previous competition, 3 winners were selected along with 2 commendations.

The winners were:

1st - The Cooper Prize
Night River
by Sally Newton

2nd
Earthworks
by Doreen Rosser

3rd
The Big Weekend
by Mickie Dann

Commendation
Tibor Finds A Halo
by Anne Funnell

Commendation
The Blue Lady
by Victoria Bartlett

The next NWC meeting is after Easter on 6th April.

Our 6th April meeting is a talk by Andrew Brammer on Writing Humour Based On Personal Experiences. This meeting will also include the popular author performing some of his tall tales.