Theme: ‘Let the land speak. Let the water remember.’

The competition opened at the Rivers & Moorland Festival event, Ivybridge Bookshop, Friday June 5th and closed on 1st September.

Results were announced: 

10th October 2026 at Ivybridge Library by the Mayor of Ivybridge and Cllr Victor Abbott. The best entries will be printed, with the permission of the author, in an anthology to be published in 2027. The author retains copyright to their story at all times.

SPONSORED BY SOUTH HAMS DISTRICT COUNCIL locality funding