The UWI Open Campus Montserrat recently announced winners of the 2009 Creative Writing Competition. Entries were read  by six  judges some local and some international .My short fiction, dead, which was written almost a decade ago when I lived in the Carolinas, won the short story prize. I guess it's time for me to dust off all those other short stories languishing in digital purgatory. 

 Here are the list of winners: 

Poetry

Ease de Pressure by Laura Taylor

Stage 2 Denial by Jamaal Jeffers

View Through Beaded Curtains by Shirley Spycalla

 

Honourable Mention

      Etude by Jamaal Jeffers

            The Last Farewell by Shirley Spycalla

 

Short Stories 

Dead by Andrew Skerritt

He Would Remember Forever by Gordon Buffonge

We Will Not Go Quietly by Laura Taylor 

Honourable Mention

      One Year in Hell by Laura Taylor

      Nubian Journeys: As a Woman by Celia Marshall

The Open Campus will  organise a prize-giving ceremony which will also include the reading and signing of recently published work.   The Alliouagana Festival of the Word, a Literary Festival for Montserrat, will be held Nov. 13 to 15, 2009.