The Best of Bolton - Results Announced!

6 Jan 2012

The Octagon New Writing department, led by Associate Director Elizabeth Newman, has been looking for new writers to take part in The Best of Bolton which will give some of Bolton’s best local writers the chance to showcase their work and gain feedback. 

Following a careful selection process Elizabeth Newman has now chosen the pieces that she will direct, using professional actors, in an Octagon Studio performance on Friday 10 February 2012. Elizabeth announces the results below:

Dear The Best of Bolton applicants,

Thank you so much for your submissions. We had one hundred and thirty three responses this year. If you haven’t received an email or phone call saying yes or no please can you get in contact as soon as possible as we may not have received your submission. Please email info@octagonbolton.co.uk. Below is the list of writers and their works that we’re going to be including this year.

Many thanks,

Elizabeth xx

Successful submissions are listed in the running order that they will appear at the event.

Keeping the Flame Alive – Lesley Strzalko
The Bitter Sweet Taste of Orange Peel – Rosie Adamson-Clark
My Tribute to Walt Whitman – Melanie C. Karopta
Lonely Hearts Snub/ In Search of My Better Half – Sally James
The Observer – Kath Kavanagh
Jehlita Blaze – Bill Brierley
The Things I Forgot – Phil Smith
Reflections – Raymond Dean
Mrs Craddock Benefits From Staff Training – Pat Turner
Industrial Anthem – Gaye Gerrard
A Magpie Called Frankie – Jolyon Coombs
The Lion and The Lamb – Rod Riesco
Love Lost – John Dawson
April in Paris – Carole Pickering
A Country Park – Eric W Tomlinson
When Beryl Met Albert – Bill Kenny
Always Something There to Remind Me – Dave Jones
Someone Else’s Shoes – Julie Ryle
The West Window - Jane Wilcock
Cast of Mind – Margaret Gilmour
A Winter’s Day…as Beautiful as You – Jeff Dawson
Washing the Glasses – Linda Ashworth
Similes of Absence – Saida Khan
Dilemma – June Eddowes
Screaming Snowflakes – Ria Amber Tesia
Oh J’adore – Joan Washbrook
A Bun in the Oven – Sally James
Meeting Grandma – Alan Markland
From a Midnight Train – Andy N
The Journey of Time and Life – Roland Bateson
Daniel – Sarah Dobbs
Nat of the Wanderers – Jeff Dawson