Turn the page to success

The winners have been announced for the Page Turner Awards which were set up for the first time this year, with the goal of changing writers’ lives. And the Awards have generously offered free entry to next year’s prize for WM readers.

The inaugural 2020 awards took place in October.

In the memoir category, Elizabeth Goodhue, pictured right, a mother from Peterborough, New Hampshire, won an award and an agent for her memoir,

The Truth about Down Syndrome: Lessons Learned from Raising a Son with Trisomy-21,

a series of vignettes about raising her son. ‘I submitted part of my memoir never expecting to win something,’ said Elizabeth. ‘When I heard that I was a finalist and that an agent was interested in my book, I couldn’t believe it.’

Mark Stibbe, top, a former vicar from Folkestone, Kent, won the Fiction Award for his novel, A Book in Time. The book was inspired by his own upbringing – he and his sister were adopted by a bookloving family after being left at an Anglican nun’s community house in Hackney.

Chemical engineer and patent attorney Robert Barry, from Kilkenny, Ireland, won the eBook Non-fiction category with The Truth – The Biggest Cover-Up in History, which explores the Holy Grail. David Hay, a retired civil servant from Stockton-on-Tees won the eBook Fiction Award for his contemporary humour novel, The Wisdom of the Wise.

The 2021 Award launches this month. The entry fee is £30, but

WM readers can get free entry with code 21WMagW01, until 28 February 2021. See the website for more details

Website: https://pageturnerawards.com/