The roll of honour
The final winners of our Danny King short story competition are:-
A.MacMillan
Born and living in Scotland. 'A' is inspired to write by unhealthy quantities of strong coffee, insomnia and life in general. Married with two adult children she has now found the space to write without interruption, or guilt-attached emotion. Currently nursing a bruised funny bone inflicted by the shock of winning a book. Her philosophy of life is, 'Laugh with dignity; paper tissues cost money.
Paul McDermott
Paul can't remember a time when he didn't write - his dad reckons he filled four exercise books with his first story when he was about six yrs old, but he never seems able to find the story when Paul asks to see it. He had his first touch of success with a short play performed at the Edinburgh Fringe, a couple more produced locally since then, and has recently published his first 'real' book, a childrens' story about pirates - the publisher has asked him to pen a few more, using the same characters, so that's an ongoing project. He claims his dad is not called Terry - we're not sure.
A Peculiar Man
Vikki Rothero
Vikki fries Mars Bars for a living and does a bit of moonlighting as a Buckfast salesperson. Her main party trick is to sing 'Wind beneath my wings' whilst dressed as Tom Cruise and she finds this goes down well at the kind of parties she gets invited to. She has never been to Scotland. Ever.
Stef Hall
Stef leads an exemplary life. She turns tortoises the right way up when they’re stuck, frees the heads of little children from railings and helps pub landlords get rid of that nasty beer stuff in their cellars by throwing it down her neck at a rate of knots. This is her first story.
John Price
John tends to write things and then hide them away in a drawer so that someone can be astonished at the lost talent, the flower that blushed unseen, when he pegs out. If there's nothing on the telly he'll take another look at things in the drawer and is either appalled or amazed. One day he'll take up burning or shredding most likely. A friend of his however, was more professional and has made a mint. He works at the Polo factory.
Anne Ayres
Anne was born in County Durham but has been slipping south ever since. She came to writing late. While waiting for an acupuncture appointment she picked up a flyer for a writing course and was hooked. She writes short stories and poetry and her work has appeared in “Digitally Organic”, “Shoogle Tide” and “Survival Guides” all published by Earlyworks Press.
Peter McAdam
Peter is a quiet Dadaist living in the shadows of suburban Washington.But he gets these frequent visits from Eddie Temple and it shakes up his life. He has moved three times but Eddie catches up with him and dictates his brooding monologues of a relentless hitman.
Darrell Irving - 'The Kids are all shite'
William Diamond - 'A chip off the old block'
As explained on the News page we are unable to show you their winning entries just yet but as a consolation we've managed to wring another two excellent stories from them - hit the 'Radgepacket' button.
Emma Redgrave
Emma is employed as a mojito taster at a small beach bar in North Tyneside. She gets four hours for lunch, forty weeks holiday a year and all the wasabi nuts she can handle. When she's at work they let her write a story after every tenth drink. She wrote this one near the end of her day - try to ignore the nut debris on the page.
Brought to book