The evening was hosted by last year’s winner, Stewart Ashton, as the authors of the submitted stories read out their work for the group. There was a wide variety of stories on the set theme – A stranger calls. The stories varied from the stranger being a man with the body of a pig, to a long lost daughter (who murders her mother), to a cold caller who gets his just deserts! But the winner was a wonderfully written story submitted by Jill Boyes, about a woman dreaming up a fantasy about the child she was forced to give up at birth, only to have the caller at her door not quite live up to her dream! Congratulations to Jill who will now judge next year’s competition.

The next meeting of the SWC will be held at 7:00pm, on Tuesday 9^th July, at the Newby and Scalby library.