Lady Denman Cup - 2022 competition
2022 competition: The Power of Community Celebrating the Queen’s Jubilee, supported by The Big Jubilee Lunch
Using no more than 500 words, WI members are invited to submit a piece of writing, either comical, serious, fact or fiction, which reflects the powerful impact when a community comes together.
NEW for 2022
Please note changes to entry requirements:
Please email your entry and Individual Entry Form (Download here) to e.harker@nfwi.org.uk. Emails should include 2 separate versions of the entry: 1) including name of entrant, WI and federation in top left of page and 2) anonymous.
Postal Entries
Please submit 3 copies of your entries. Please ensure that the name of the entrant, WI and federation are only written on the first copy; entrant’s details must not be written on the second two copies. An Individual Entry Form must be completed and attached to the top copy of your entry. Address to submit entries will be confirmed by the end of May 2022; please check My WI for full details.
Please note that the preferable method of entry is via email, however, we appreciate this is not an option, or favoured by all, and postal copies are still welcomed.
Unlike in previous year’s, there is no longer a requirement for federations to undertake the initial judging phase. Please send your entry directly to the Activities Team at the NFWI (address to be confirmed) and not to your federation office. Federations will not be expected to forward entries to the NFWI, nor return to the writer.
Prizes
Book tokens will be given as prizes: 1st prize, book tokens to the value of £75; 2nd prize book tokens to the value of £50 and 3rd prize book tokens to the value of £30. The winner will be presented with the Lady Denman Cup at the Annual Meeting 2023.
You can also download the above schedule for the 2022 Lady Denman Cup via this link.
Using no more than 500 words, WI members are invited to submit a piece of writing, either comical, serious, fact or fiction, which reflects the powerful impact when a community comes together.
NEW for 2022
Please note changes to entry requirements:
- Each entry must include a total word count; entries with over 500 words will not be accepted. It is the responsibility of the individual member to ensure that their entries submitted have the correct word count.
- Members can submit as many entries as they wish.
- Entry fee is £5 per entry. Critiques are optional and must be selected and paid for as an additional fee. Cost for this option is £10 (total - entry fee and critique) per entry.
- Requests for late entries to receive a critique by the judges, outside of the competition, will not be granted.
- Deadline for entries is Friday 29 July 2022.
- Entrants will be informed of results by mid-October 2022.
Please email your entry and Individual Entry Form (Download here) to e.harker@nfwi.org.uk. Emails should include 2 separate versions of the entry: 1) including name of entrant, WI and federation in top left of page and 2) anonymous.
Postal Entries
Please submit 3 copies of your entries. Please ensure that the name of the entrant, WI and federation are only written on the first copy; entrant’s details must not be written on the second two copies. An Individual Entry Form must be completed and attached to the top copy of your entry. Address to submit entries will be confirmed by the end of May 2022; please check My WI for full details.
Please note that the preferable method of entry is via email, however, we appreciate this is not an option, or favoured by all, and postal copies are still welcomed.
Unlike in previous year’s, there is no longer a requirement for federations to undertake the initial judging phase. Please send your entry directly to the Activities Team at the NFWI (address to be confirmed) and not to your federation office. Federations will not be expected to forward entries to the NFWI, nor return to the writer.
Prizes
Book tokens will be given as prizes: 1st prize, book tokens to the value of £75; 2nd prize book tokens to the value of £50 and 3rd prize book tokens to the value of £30. The winner will be presented with the Lady Denman Cup at the Annual Meeting 2023.
You can also download the above schedule for the 2022 Lady Denman Cup via this link.
Lady Denman Cup - 2021 Results
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Let me show you what a woman can do!”
Schedule The NFWI's 2021 Lady Denman Cup Competition was held in partnership with the National Gallery. Using no more than 500 words, WI members were invited to submit a piece of writing, fact or fiction, in any style (story, poem etc.) based on the painting (L) by Artemisia Gentileschi. Well done! to our County round winners, whose entries went forward to the NFWI Final. A big thank you to everyone who entered. 1st - Christine Lewis, Prestwood WI 2nd (joint) - Sue Percival, Thornborough & Thornton WI and Suzane Simmons, Marlow Common WI. Suzane's entry was "Highly Commended" at the National level. Click through to read her entry: National Results: The NFWI received 105 entries from 50 federations and the final results were:
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Lady Denman Cup - 2020 Results
‘What I heard on the Bus...’
Using no more than 500 words, WI members were invited to submit a piece of writing, which could be comical, serious, fact or fiction, based on a conversation heard - or imagined - on the bus.
The results of the 2020 competition are summarised below, and the full details including judges, and the winning scripts, are available by clicking through on the .pdf document below this box.
FIRST PLACE - Christine Greaves, Frankwell Little Boro’ WI, Shropshire Federation
‘What I heard on the bus…’ ‘£ 1000 a month for life and she’s only 28!’
SECOND PLACE - Wendy Collyer, Sway WI, Hampshire Federation
THIRD PLACE - Cynthia Shaw, Wentworth WI, South Yorkshire Federation
Using no more than 500 words, WI members were invited to submit a piece of writing, which could be comical, serious, fact or fiction, based on a conversation heard - or imagined - on the bus.
The results of the 2020 competition are summarised below, and the full details including judges, and the winning scripts, are available by clicking through on the .pdf document below this box.
FIRST PLACE - Christine Greaves, Frankwell Little Boro’ WI, Shropshire Federation
‘What I heard on the bus…’ ‘£ 1000 a month for life and she’s only 28!’
SECOND PLACE - Wendy Collyer, Sway WI, Hampshire Federation
THIRD PLACE - Cynthia Shaw, Wentworth WI, South Yorkshire Federation