2024 Competition 3 Winner: Jonathan Buckmaster – Miss Derbyshire’s Masterpiece
2024 Competition 3: A poem of up to 40 lines.
- 1st – Jonathan Buckmaster: Miss Derbyshire’s Masterpiece
- 2nd – Colin Davey: Clement Ader: King of the Skies
- 3rd – Vicky Armstrong: The Old Sailor
- 4th – Paul Coomey: Mines
The following were highly commended by the judge, John McCullough: Joanna Harper, Sioux Bradshaw, Liz Calouri, Sam Davey, Godfrey Forder and Daisy Lawrence.
Hastings Writers Group – Writer of the Year competition – standings after three competitions (of 4)
Points scoring system: 1st place = 5 points, 2nd = 4 points, 3rd = 3 points, 4th = 2 points, any entry = 1 point.
| Position | Name | Points – Competition 1 (Memoir) | Points – Competition 2 (Crime) | Points – Competition 3 (Poem) | Total |
| 1 | Jonathan Buckmaster | 0 | 4 | 5 | 9 |
| 2 | Paul Coomey | 5 | 1 | 2 | 8 |
| 3 | Sioux Bradshaw | 1 | 5 | 1 | 7 |
| =4 | Colin Davey | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 |
| =4 | Gwendoline Coates | 4 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| =4 | Vicky Armstrong | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| =7 | Ewa Patmore | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| =7 | Joanna Harper | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| =7 | Roxanna Mullick | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| =10 | Adrian Coyle | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| =10 | Godfrey Forder | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| =10 | Mark Street | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| =10 | Rosemary Millward | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| =10 | Sam Davey | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| =10 | Sandra Daniels | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| =10 | Tim Barlow | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| =17 | Lisa Climie-Somers | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| =17 | Liz Calouri | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| =17 | Nada Haigh | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| =20 | Amanda Silvester | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| =20 | Daisy Lawrence | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| =20 | Dave Baker | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| =20 | Hilary Mackelden | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| =20 | Joshua Neil | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| =20 | Liz Webb | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| =20 | Samantha Gilbert | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
