Original Writing Adjudicators Adjudicator - Junior Classes: Christine Jones Christine Jones was a teacher at infant and junior level for 36 years, twenty-one of them as a head.During that time she gained a thorough and professional understanding of children’s writing. During the latter years she has pursued an interest in creative writing in the more general sense and has been an active member of Nuneaton Writers’ Circle for more than ten years. Her published work, which includes prose and poetry, has appeared in Amateur Gardening, The Lady and an anthology entitled War and Peace.She has been three times runner-up in the prestigious Writers’ News Short Story Competition.She has also written playlets and entertainment for groups such as Ladies’ Probus and Fillongley History Group.In 2002 she judged the Junior Writing Section at Fillongley Show and in 2007 she adjudicated this section for Nuneaton Festival of Arts. Adjudicator - Adult Classes: Mike Brewer Mike Brewer lives near Leicester and has been involved in the writing scene since the early sixties. He is the archivist of the annual Writers’ Summer School, at Swanwick, in Derbyshire, where has served o­n the Committee, run numerous discussion groups and quizzes, and been a poetry course leader. Through contacts made at Swanwick, he has acted as adjudicator for several Writers’ Club competitions. Mike has been President of Leicester Writers’ Club and Chairman of Leicester Poetry Society. He put together poetry programmes o­n Radio Leicester in its early days and was a member of the now defunct Coalville Publishing Company. He has had poetry published in a number of slim magazines and in all four of the Leicester Poetry Society’s anthologies, and has contributed studies to the National Adult School Organisation’s annual handbook since the year 2001. More recently Mike has taken an interest in performance poetry, as opposed to poetry which is read: ‘stage versus page’. Since last April he has taken part in the open mike spot at the monthly ‘Word’ show at the Y Theatre in Leicester, performing his own work.  Printerfriendly display