Final set of Dragon’s Pen Snippets

We hope you’ve enjoyed reading all the snippets from the Dragon’s Pen entries. Next week, we will have the winning short story and the winning poem in full and, after that, you will be able to download podcasts of the authors reading their winning entries. The exhibition of all the entries we received is still available to view at GWL, so do come along and enjoy a cup of tea and a good read.

Dragon's Pen Display

A cosmopolitan city, aping continental neighbours

Bringing the outside in

GLASGOW ALFRESCO by Una Sillars

 

the way the lighthouse blinked in the night,

led you to a girl and a sorceress.

SUFFOLK by Ruth Johnston

 

Stand your ground, wait it out,

Wave your hand, scream and shout.

HALTED by Ann Marie O’Hare

 

I step into the mystic

Look around for the familiar

TICKING CLOCKS by Cassie Kennedy

 

we’re travelling along this branch

askew

AESOP’S LIZARD by Joan Lennon

 

yet the earth gifts me pleasures

tae remind me

eh ma insignificance.

THE JOURNEY by Karen Thomson

 

Movement

in

that

mysterious

there

is stillness

BITS OF PHILOSOPHY by Ann Harvie

 

my skirts respectful like a teacher’s

LONDON TRANSPORT CATERING QUEEN 1973 by Liz Bassett

 

Inside I smear

optimistic shades

onto all the walls

MOODS by Kay Ritchie

 

I try to recall the places where I used to live:

like snapshots seen in someone else’s book,

BLACK DOG by Sarah McIntosh Howells

 

Free of sleep I’m free to dream,

my head so Vogue it sails

Venetian canals without me.

COSTA GLASGOW by Irene Cunningham

 

Summer sun

It sets and rises

I’ve had my night

I’ll have my day.

NOTHING BUT A MEMORY by Amna Ali