Judges have announced the winners of the Island’s annual Dr Olive Lamming Memorial Literary Competition.
The contest, run by the Department of Education since 1972, has three categories and a total of 67 entries were submitted this year.
In first place with a fictional story was Bill Cottle of Derbyshire with his tale of ‘Patrick and the Miracle’.
Coral Thomas won the factual article category with a piece entitled ‘India’, while Kathyryn Sharpe took the honours for the best poem.
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