2012 HCW Member Competition Winners
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Hearty congratulations to our 2012 HCW Competition Winners

All 1st, 2nd & 3rd place-getters are published in the HCW end of year anthology - Talents

POETRY - Judge: Stu Bagby
Traditional Haiku 
1st        Annie Glancey - Night Things
2nd       Tanya Gouws - Funeral
3rd        Annie Glancey - Spring Time
Free Verse 
1st        Rosa Gaete - To Ian
2nd       Annie Glancey - Neither Here Nor There
3rd        Margaret Mackie - Sea Mother
Humorous
1st        Margaret Wilkins - Innocence
2nd       Pauline Hayes - The Gardener
3rd        Pauline Hoare - Taking the Plunge
 
NON-FICTION (New Zealand Setting) - Judge: Judith Williams
1st        Marion Duncan - A Child of Destiny
2nd       Betty Morgan - A School Day in 1940
3rd        Margaret Wilkins - Two on a Bicycle Built for One
 
CHILDREN'S STORY (Fiction for 10-13 years. From the point of view of a minor character or an inanimate object) - Judge: Merrill Lewis
1st        Marion Duncan - Taken in a Flash
2nd       Margaret Mackie - Finding Great Grandmother’s Brooch
3rd        Margaret Wilkins - My Story
HC        Tanya Gouws - The Princess and the Pea, by the Pea
HC        Gillian Henderson - Once Upon a Time, by Grumpy
HC        Margaret Mackie - Cinderella’s Slipper
HC        Annie Glancey - Life’s a Story
HC        Nikki Davidson - I’m Soxy and I Know It
 
DRAMA - Judge: Nola Drake
1st        Tanya Gouws & Catherine Williams - Bon Voyage
2nd       Neil Garner - All in a Name
3rd        Gillian Henderson - Brief Encounter
 
SHORT-STORY (Short-Short Story - min 90 - max 100 words) - Judge: Graeme Lay
1st        Pam Smith - The Winged Cage
2nd       Rosa Gaete - Footsteps in the Night
3rd        Marion Duncan - We’ll be Ok
HC        Neil Garner - Kindred Spirits
HC        Ngaire Gee - In the Kitchen
HC        Gillian Henderson - Curry
 
FOUR LETTERS : VERNA HENDERSON MEMORIAL (ROSE) TROPHY​  (Judged internally)
LETTER 1 : Dear Prime Minister - Judges: Gillian Henderson, Sherie Crosby & Rosa Gaete
1st        Neil Garner
2nd       Pauline Hoare
3rd        Margaret Wilkins
HC        Gloria Trask

​LETTER 2 : Dear Neighbour - Judges: Tanya Gouws, Catherine Williams & Graeme Mackie
1st        Margaret Wilkins
2nd       Gillian Henderson
3rd        Marion Duncan
HC        Betty Morgan
HC        Neil Garner
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LETTER 3 : My Excuse is…  - Judges: Neil Garner & Pauline Hoare
1st        Betty Morgan
2nd       Margaret Wilkins
3rd        Marion Duncan
 
LETTER 4 : Love Letter - Judges: Marion Duncan, Pamela Bell & Annie Glancey
1st        Gillian Henderson
2nd       Neil Garner
=3rd      Sherie Crosby
=3rd      Betty Morgan
HC        Rosa Gaete
C           Margaret Mackie