Schools Competition 2025-26 Anthology

This A5 100 page anthology with card covers contains 34 stories. 

All this year’s prize-winning students' and runners-up’s stories are included.  

It’s a great gift for birthdays and Christmas!

It costs £10 plus postage (if not collected). 

Proceeds from sales will help to finance future school story-writing competitions.

It can be obtained from Heron & Willow, Jedburgh https://heronandwillow.scot/

and Mainstreet Trading, St Boswells https://www.mainstreetbooks.co.uk/

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Open Mic

Our next workshop is an ‘Open Mic’. If you would like constructive feedback on your writing, bring along a story or poem of up to 500 words, or read a 500 word excerpt from a longer piece. 

It's on Tuesday, 3rd February from 2.30pm to 4.15pm at Abbey Row Community Centre, Abbey Row, Kelso, TD5 7BJ. 

The suggested donation for the workshop is £5 (£4 for members), which includes light refreshments. If you haven’t attended one of our workshops before, it’s free of charge.  

For more details, comment below. All adults are welcome to attend. 

 

Character Names and Attributes.

Our next workshop is about creating characters in fiction. 

Arran Ducker will lead this workshop on character names and attributes.

The workshop is on Tuesday, 6th January from 2.30pm to 4.15pm at Abbey Row Community Centre, Abbey Row, Kelso, TD5 7BJ. The suggested donation for the workshop is £5 (£4 for members), which includes light refreshments. If you haven’t attended one of our workshops before, we don’t expect a donation. If you would like to attend online via Zoom, please comment below. All adults are welcome to attend.