I love writing so I decided I would try my skills at tiebreaker or writing-based competitions. I started in May and entered about five comps. I went away to South Wales on a little vacation in early June, and came back with an immediate desire to holiday again. One week wasn’t long enough!!
The following day, PING! My inbox shouted out ‘A Cottage By The Sea Winner’. It was as though my thoughts had been blown in the direction of Little Brown Publishers, who were running a competition with Tesco Books to promote a new novel by Carole Matthews. My lyrical entry had been selected from over a thousand by the author herself. ...and just when my husband had said to me that he thought ‘comps were a waste of time’!
I won £750 vouchers for Sykes Cottages for telling them who I would take on holiday with me. The winning poem is here:
http://www.carolematthews.com/winner-of-a-cottage-by-the-sea-holiday/
Happy holidays to me!