by Joanne Carr, editor
This is the moment you have all been waiting for – the announcement of our Feel the Heat Writing Competition winners!
We ploughed through 150 entries, whittled them down to a shortlist of the most promising entries, before getting together in a small meeting room in the Richmond office to debate and chose our winners. We all fought for our favourites but we were unanimous in our choice of winner, who is:
Lucy Roberts with her entry A Bid for Love
Congratulations to Lucy – she wins the first prize of an editor for a year!
Once we’d decided on our winner, we had the tough job of choosing two runners-up, but the standard was so high, and the voices so diverse, that decided to award three joint runners-up, and they are:
The Who’s Who of Matt McKinnell by Rachael Blair
Chasing Kate by Jackie Coates
Sleeping With The Enemy by Felicity Roger
Congratulations to Rachael, Jackie and Felicity! They each receive an editorial consultation.
Thank you to everyone who entered the competition – we were thrilled to have such talent to read through. Do not lose heart if you were not one of our winners – in the following weeks, editors will be getting in touch with writers who we felt showed the most promise with some encouraging words. Sadly, we cannot give individual feedback on every single one of the entries, but we will be sending an email to all those who entered one way or the other.
We will also be posting bits of the winning entries and some editorial feedback on the winning chapters over the next few weeks.
Please join the editorial team in congratulating our winner Lucy and the runners up Rachael, Jackie and Felicity!
Mega congrats to Lucy, Rach, Felicity and Jackie! That’s *such* exciting news! Best of luck to all of you!!!
Robbie
Chiming in late (have been busy with revisions) to say CONGRATULATIONS to Lucy, Felicity, Rachael and Jackie. Fantastic news for you all and a wonderful opportunity to work with the great editorial team in Richmond.
And to those who entered but didn’t win, congratulations too. Getting a submission ready for editorial review is an achievement in itself and one more step on the road to publication.
Cheering from Australia.
Annie
Have just caught up with the thread. Belated congratulations to those who won! Looking forward to reading the winning chapters.
Phew, finally made it after a week of family health stuff.
Rachael, Jackie and Felicity, a huge congratulations!!!
Really looking forward to reading your entries.
And to those who didn’t win, keep researching. Read loads of Mod Heats. Keep writing. Keep honing your voice and your craft and keep submitting!
Okay, can you tell my kinder kid is at my elbow wanting to play?
I left off Lucy’s name!
Huge congrats, Lucy
MEGA congrats to Lucy! You must be floating high!
Congrats also to Rachael, Jackie and Felicity – a big wave to Rachael
Hugs
Serena (who is still having PC problems, hence the delayed congrats)
xx
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