Congratulations to our competition winners!

Well done to everyone who entered our competition on the theme of Space, the winners were Martyn with his story 'Space-The Final Void', Jillian Farren with her poem 'Lost In Space' and Ben with his poem 'Fly a Rocket Out to Space'. All received their book tokens at the presentation Here is Jillian's poem:

Lost In Space

I could fall into the spaces between your words

And slip through the gaps

As though meanings were floorboards

With their chinks like mouths lying in wait

Hungry to swallow me down

Into the half lit world beneath

Full of dust accumulated through years of silences

To drown in the depths of indifference

Spaces stretch out

And words lose their way

In their solitary track

Lost in a wilderness of words

And the spaces between

A communication gap

That we both fall into

But not together in the same place

Different worlds that sometimes touch

Orbiting each other in our lonely circles

Sometimes approaching

Sometimes retreating

Two separate bodies

Lost in space



Due to an administrative problem we are, at present, unable to post any more of the winning entries. We shall hopefully be able to rectify this situation soon. Hopefully Jillian's superb (now officially 'award-winning') poem will whet your appetite for more winning entries. Keep checking this blog for further posts!