Bridport Prize 2000 - Poetry Prizewinners

1st Prize £2500 Linda Rogers, Victoria B.C. Canada "Snail Love with Opera"

Linda is a Canadian poet, who also writes fiction, non-fiction and children's books. With her husband she writes and performs songs for children. Mother of three sons she has two grandchildren. She reviews books on the evening news and teaches writing workshops and is on contract with various universities and online. She is Past President of the League of Canadian Poets and has been awarded several poetry prizes. Her greatest concern is for the rights of children.

2nd Prize £1000 Tracy Horn, London W 10 "Homage"
3rd Prize £500 Ceri Ann Worman, London SW 4 "Hush"
- Supplementary Prizes - £50 Each :-
- Nigel Forde, Pocklington, York "Visitors"
- Jane Draycott, Henley, Oxon "Public Records Office"
- James MacIlravie, Dundee "Cause"
- Pauline Stainer, Ipswich "Eclipse at Skara Brae"
- Rebecca Goss, Liverpool "Aeroplanes"
- Mario Petrucci, Enfield "After School"
- Gill Saxon, Impington, Cambs. "The Heart's December"
- Howard Wright, Portadown, N. Ireland "Old Money"
- Gordon Taylor, Toronto, Canada "Yodelling"
- - Runners-up - A Years Subscription to "The New Writer"
  - Brian Clover, London SE3 "Pushing the Envelope" and "My Mother's Cigarettes"
  - Paul Lee, Leicester "Up the Junction at Fahrenheit 451"
  - Valerie Darville, Enfield "The Silver Fish"
  - Anne-Marie Fyfe, London W4 "Morning on Bridge Street"
  - Dennis Casling, Weston-Super-Mare "Signs"
  - Marcy Willow, Deer Isle, ME, U.S.A. "Revelation"
  - Sian Hughes, Devizes, Wilts "Sex Education"

Bridport Prize 2000 - Short Story Prizewinners

1st Prize £2500 Victoria Worsley, London N8 "Giddy, Stick and the Beach Hut"

Victoria was born in London in 1966. Since leaving Oxford in 1988, she has worked mainly as an actor and runs Jade, a new-writing theatre company she founded in 1992. On the writing side, she began by co-devising shows with cult performance company Tattycorum in the 1980's, since when she has written two plays toured by Jade and another short piece commissioned and produced by Soho Theatre Company and published this year by Faber and Faber. Prose fiction is a recent departure; this is the second short story she has submitted to competition.

2nd Prize £1000 Ann Jolly, Emsworth, Hants "Stone Soup"
3rd Prize £500 Simon Back, Nottingham "Billy Brown of London Town and the Troglodytes of Bow"
- Supplementary Prizes - £50 Each :-
- Chris Powell, Stanope Co Durham "Burning the Blue-Winged Boys"
- David Swann, Brighton "A Polder, a Place to Live"
- Benjamin Portus, Ilsington, Devon "Welcome in Cairo"
- Kathryn Kulpa, Middletown RI, U.S.A. "Los Gatos Bus"
- Lesley Byers, Bournemouth "The Way to a Man's Heart"
- Mike Casey, Co Dublin, Ireland "Securex"
- Dodie Ellis, Harpole, Northampton "Still Lives"
- - Runners-up - A Years Subscription to "The New Writer"
  - Domini Stallings, London NW5 "The Broken Bird"
  - Gregory Norris,Woking, Surrey "One Small Step"
  - Linda Thompson, Wigan, Lancs "Midnight in Seville"

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Bridport Prize 2000 - Poetry Prizewinners

1st Prize £2500 Linda Rogers, Victoria B.C. Canada "Snail Love with Opera"

2nd Prize £1000 Tracy Horn, London W 10 "Homage"

3rd Prize £500 Ceri Ann Worman, London SW 4 "Hush"

Supplementary Prizes - £50 Each :-

Nigel Forde, Pocklington, York "Visitors"

Jane Draycott, Henley, Oxon "Public Records Office"

James MacIlravie, Dundee "Cause"

Pauline Stainer, Ipswich "Eclipse at Skara Brae"

Rebecca Goss, Liverpool "Aeroplanes"

Mario Petrucci, Enfield "After School"

Gill Saxon, Impington, Cambs. "The Heart's December"

Howard Wright, Portadown, N. Ireland "Old Money"

Gordon Taylor, Toronto, Canada "Yodelling"

Runners-up - A Years Subscription to "The New Writer"

Brian Clover, London SE3 "Pushing the Envelope" and "My Mother's Cigarettes"

Paul Lee, Leicester "Up the Junction at Fahrenheit 451"

Valerie Darville, Enfield "The Silver Fish"

Anne-Marie Fyfe, London W4 "Morning on Bridge Street"

Dennis Casling, Weston-Super-Mare "Signs"

Marcy Willow, Deer Isle, ME, U.S.A. "Revelation"

Sian Hughes, Devizes, Wilts "Sex Education"

Bridport Prize 2000 - Short Story Prizewinners

1st Prize £2500 Victoria Worsley, London N8 "Giddy, Stick and the Beach Hut"

2nd Prize £1000 Ann Jolly, Emsworth, Hants "Stone Soup"

3rd Prize £500 Simon Back, Nottingham "Billy Brown of London Town and the Troglodytes of Bow"

Supplementary Prizes - £50 Each :-

Chris Powell, Stanope Co Durham "Burning the Blue-Winged Boys"

David Swann, Brighton "A Polder, a Place to Live"

Benjamin Portus, Ilsington, Devon "Welcome in Cairo"

Kathryn Kulpa, Middletown RI, U.S.A. "Los Gatos Bus"

Lesley Byers, Bournemouth "The Way to a Man's Heart"

Mike Casey, Co Dublin, Ireland "Securex"

Dodie Ellis, Harpole, Northampton "Still Lives"

Runners-up - A Years Subscription to "The New Writer"

Domini Stallings, London NW5 "The Broken Bird"

Gregory Norris,Woking, Surrey "One Small Step"

Linda Thompson, Wigan, Lancs "Midnight in Seville"

The Bridport Prize is a fundraiser for Bridport Arts Centre, charity no 1069780