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Kirsten McDougall’s Walking Day has taken out top honours in the open category of the Sunday Star-Times short story competition for 2020. lllustration: Rachel Trevelyan Kirsten McDougall’s Walking Day has taken out top honours and a $5000 prize in the open category of the Sunday Star-Times short story competition for 2020. The dogs started up before sunrise. A lone howl next a chorus of answers and fresh queries. Hungry lonely hungry loneleee Their cries entered Pip’s dreams and she woke full of warning. Dogs always knew when walking day came. No light round the rim of the shutter...
Kirsten McDougall is the winner of the Sunday Star-Times short story competition, open category. Kirsten McDougall’s love of reading and writing has come a long way since her interest in Enid Blyton and Trixie Belden books as a child. The accomplished Wellington author, who works as a publicist and literary manager for Victoria University Press, lives a life surrounded by words. ”That’s just my world.” And now McDougall can add Sunday Star-Times short story competition open category winner to her CV for her piece, Walking Day. She takes home the $5000 prize after almost 700 entri...
Almost all predictions were thrown out of the window by coronavirus which changed all our lives forever. So you'd have to be a fool to try to predict what may happen in 2021 right? Well maybe - but we are going to give it a go anyway. Of course our biggest hope for 2021 is that we are able to get back to something like normality. So here's our predictions of how the next 12 months may play out. 1 WARRINGTON WALKING DAY TO RETURN It is always a highlight of the year in Warrington and we really missed it in 2020. But if the vaccine continues to be rolled out, we are hoping it will...