This is the inaugural year of our Georgina Hawtrey-Woore Award for Independent Authors. Georgina died, too young, in 2017. As a senior editor at Arrow, Georgina was determined that her authors should fulfil their potential, and, more, she was also a great supporter of WforW. To commemorate her life, we three grannies who run Words for the Wounded determined that Georgina should be honoured. To this end we renamed the competition and re-jigged its structure. So now we have four categories.

This year we are delighted to say that not only are the entry numbers up, so too is the standard. It is heart warming to see so many excellent entries, and a great treat to read them and Georgina would be thrilled. Of course, though, there have to be winners and ultimately the team led by Milly Adams, one of her authors, reached unanimous decisions.
Unusually for Words for the Wounded, we have joint 2^nd place winners in two of the categories.

Frost Magazine will be publishing A Day in the Life of each of our winners over the summer.