H E BATES COMPETITION AND LOVELY HEAD JUDGE MAGGIE ALLEN

So, I recently did quite well in a competition – the H E Bates Short Story Competition which runs every year. I was placed third with ‘Mariska and The Bear’, and had another story on the ten-long shortlist. But better than that was that the head judge from the competition, Maggie Allen, contacted me to say how much she really liked my work, the writing, and how much she would like to work with me applying her expert editor’s eye to anything I had produced – only if I was interested. That was kind and unlooked for.


I have since sent Maggie Allen several stories, and each time her advice has been extremely good and acute in her observations and helpful in tightening some of my writing. And she turns things around in good time and she is kind even when there’s something in the writing that needs punished.


I know she is keen to pick up more work and so I am putting a link to her here – just in case you want to find out more for yourself. Maggie Allen is a professional ghost writer, which is nothing spooky at all. Check her website for yoursel

http://the-write-word.co.uk