Stroud Short Stories

 And the Award goes to...

I am both delighted and humbled to let you know that at a special reception, at the Stonehouse Court Hotel last week, I won the Stroud News & Journal Community Award in the category Contribution to the Arts for my work with Stroud Short Stories. This coincided almost exactly with my tenth year running SSS.

I share this award with everyone who has attended a SSS event; anyone who has submitted a story; anyone who has read at a SSS event (that's 132 writers); with all the helpers and supporters including Stroud Book Festival; all my brilliant co-judges; with our administrator Christiane and, of course with Bill Jones who funded SSS back in 2011.

John