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March winners 2025 – adult writers
In March, we asked for stories featuring a bookcase.
Congratulations to the winners of our March competition. Feeling inspired? Have a go at this month's prompt.
Adult winner
Karen Gray
Bookcase abandoned on the street, left for dead beside the wheelie bins. Rain-soaked peeling veneer exposing inner pine, swollen like flecked fungi.
Bookcase tucked into the hedge on the street corner, glass fronted doors and shingle sloping roof with a quirky hand painted sign: Book Swap - Happy Reading!
Gaelic winner
Alison NicRath
Chuir i leabhar eile air a phreas-leabhraichean. Leabhar eile a leughadh i don phàiste nach do rugadh fhathast. Leabhar eile a dhùisgeas mac-meanmna agus a dh’fhosglas saoghalan ùra. Gach leabhar air an ceannach le gaol. Sgeilpichean làn comas, làn dòchas, làn gràdh. “Tha fadachd orm,” chagair i.
Translation by The Gaelic Book Council
She added another book to the bookcase. Another book she would read to the child yet to be born. Another book to awaken imagination and open up new worlds. Each book bought with love. Shelves full of potential, full of hope, full of love. “I can’t wait,” she whispered.