Product Description
Read the winning and shortlisted entries from the London-based Society of Women Writers & Journalists' International Life Writing Competition 2012. The competition attracted entries from across the world. Here you can read the twelve stories selected to go through to judge, Katie Fforde.
'Worse thing is people go missing. They just disappear.'
'Do they find them?'
'In mass graves, bodies down mine shafts. Difficult to identify them once Mugabe's men have tortured them.'
Black, White and Shades of Grey - Anita Reeves.
Auntie Rhoda is four foot seven, with size one feet and the temper of God. When she hollers 'Hillaryyy!' up the stairs at my cousin you can feel windows shaking all the way along the prom...
Cremated in Mink - Judy Astley
I feared I had hurt him and feared more his retribution. Slowly he emerged, like an animal from hibernation, bent over, submissive, unsure of the world.
Norbert - Lynn Brand
'Worse thing is people go missing. They just disappear.'
'Do they find them?'
'In mass graves, bodies down mine shafts. Difficult to identify them once Mugabe's men have tortured them.'
Black, White and Shades of Grey - Anita Reeves.
Auntie Rhoda is four foot seven, with size one feet and the temper of God. When she hollers 'Hillaryyy!' up the stairs at my cousin you can feel windows shaking all the way along the prom...
Cremated in Mink - Judy Astley
I feared I had hurt him and feared more his retribution. Slowly he emerged, like an animal from hibernation, bent over, submissive, unsure of the world.
Norbert - Lynn Brand
