The "On Whose Terms?" conference and competition organiser, Deirdre
Osborne is grateful to Sarah White, the Trustees of the George Padmore
Institute and the panel of judges for enabling this competition in honour
of the memory of John La Rose to take place.The result of the short story
competition judged by R.Victoria Arana, Margaret Busby, Kadija George and
Courttia Newland is as follows:
1. Written in Stone - by Molara Wood
2. Bam Bai Ah Go See Yam - by Kela Francis
3. Shades - by Nancy Downie
4. Metaphor of Locusts - by Richard Ugbede Ali
5. Hope's Acceptance - by Kobina Graham
6. The Sacred Lake - by Unoma N. Azuah
7. The Seven Thirty-Eight - by Jamien Nagadhana
8. Kernig's Sign - by Niran Okewole
9. Maude Hastings - by Yewande Omotoso
10. The Wedding - by Ayla El Assad"
The Chair of judges, Margaret Busby OBE made the following comments on the
judging;
"Of course we wanted to bear in mind that the winning story had to have some
element of the ideals of John La Rose."
"Eventually we decided to come up with a list that we thought represented
the best of the stories submitted and what we were looking for in the
stories was that, first of all, well crafted with a compelling beginning,
middle and end; but also that they had stimulating, exciting writing style,
interesting idea and some sort of imagination - and again relevant to John's
ideals. So we came up with a list of 10 stories we would put forward as
highly commended and out of those 10 we'd choose the winner."
Find out more about the ideals of
John La Rose.
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