Three members of Dean Writers Circle were all awarded top prizes for poetry at the Mid-Somerset Festival in Bath. Celia Hinton won the Haiku trophy for 3 linked haiku, Val Ormrod was the winner for both the Sonnet prize and Poem based on a visual stimulus, and Jolie Marchant won 2nd prize in the Open Poetry competition. Val was also awarded the Evelyn Sandford Senior Literary Trophy for the best entry at the festival.
