Silja Swaby won first prize in the 'Win a creative writing course' competition judged by Maggie Hamand, who founded The Complete Creative Writing Course. Silja has chosen an MA-style course where her work will receive in-depth critical feedback.

Margaret Mounsdon's short story Play it Again, Woodhurst, has been taken by Woman's Weekly.

Also in Woman's Weekly recently was June Sutton's story, Edge of Lonliness.

Carol Fenton has recently been awarded a PhD in Creative Writing from Edge Hill University. She achieved the double distinction of being the first person to be awarded the PhD from Edgehill, as it was previously awarded by Lancaster University.

Sue Moorcroft's book, Love Writing: How to Make Money Writing Romantic or Erotic Fiction has just been published by Accent Press. Sue is taking over as a judge on the Writers' Forum fiction competitions, a position she will share with Jan Jones.

Dee Gordon has been very busy, with three books published last year by The History Press, and another three coming this year.

Val Dunmore's feature, The Value of Dreams in Every Day Life was recently published in Prediction magazine.

Zoe King recently saw publication of , Happing Trails and Tales, written in conjunction with local writers, and published by the Stalham and Happing Partnership.