So, I didn't win...

Well, after the months of waiting I got an email yesterday saying I didn't win the BBC Radio 4 Extra Opening Lines competition. I would be gutted, but my piece still made it to the top 65 out of 700, and only 3 could win. Now I get send that piece to other competitions and see if it does just as well.

If you want to check it out you can find it here: The Diary of Lucy Van Helsing.

I've entered half a dozen competitions lately and I am still waiting for the results of those, hopefully they'll be more positive. 

Longlisted for BBC Radio 4 Opening Lines

Only yesterday did I mention that I didn't think I was going to get anywhere with the BBC Radio 4 writing competition, Opening Lines. Then, a couple of hours later I got this email:

Thank you for sending your story to us which we enjoyed reading very much. 

We’re getting in touch now to let you know that your story is one of 65 which have made it through to the Opening Lines longlist. We received 760 stories in total.

We’d like to keep hold of your submission for another six weeks in order to give it a second read. We’ll then be in a position to draw up a shortlist of stories from which three will be selected for broadcast.

We’ll contact you again towards the end of April with further news.

OH MY GOSH! I was so excited. I still am!

I was complaining the other day how I never win  anything. I said to my boyfriend in a depressed tone, 'This is my life now, entering competitions...' I added a new page to my blog, Achievements, and thought 'I have no good writing ones.' 

And ta-da! That's all changed!

But now I'm nervous for April!