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SATURDAY 31st MARCH, 2012 - Issue 66 will be posted on MONDAY 2nd APRIL, 2012. It's been noted that Writer's Muse may be difficult to obtain in the near future. Please do not feel free to request extra copies, or subscribe under silly names. We feel that the other 70 million people of the UK deserve their copies and frivolous requests will not be tolerated. Although, in the spirit of free enterprise, and as an homage to the government, those who request extra copies with a 'donation' to have a Big Mac with the editor in the palatial office of Writer's Muse, will be given consideration. And a doggy bag of tax-free merchandise. The Freedom of Information Act currently states that we have to inform you of writers in the next issue, below.

On an unrelated note, one of the students in my Creative Writing group, Catherine Jones, has won first prize (£2000.00) in The Cheshire Prize for Literature 2011, with her story being anthologised shortly. The Awards Evening was held at The University of Chester and prizes were presented by Tony Robinson. For more information take a look at: http://www.chester.ac.uk/node/11030

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Issue 66 contains:

EDITORIAL by JIM PALMER
THE LAUGHTER OF CHILDREN by ADAM PARRY
ALL WRAPPED UP by TOM GREENWOOD
DOUGIE’S TWO POEMS by WILLIAM WOOD
AT THE END OF THE DAY by BRUCE HARRIS
HIDDEN EXTRAS by DI PAVEY
READERS’ LETTERS by THE PUBLIC
BOOK REVIEW: WILLIAM WOOD'S 'A LITTLE BOOK OF PLEASURES' by BRIAN DARWENT
LUCKY FRIDAY by SANDY WARDROPE
WORDS COUNT by ED BLUNDELL
DEAR MAVIS (3) by JOHN McDERMOTT
SINS ACROSS THE FLESH by SHIRLEY GOLDEN
BANJOEY by RON WHITE
THE STORY OF UNCLE PIP by BRIAN DARWENT

Writer’s Muse presents the 2008 Writing Competition special issue - The Good The Fab and The Cuddly.

Writers featured are: Prize winners:
Shirley Golden - Dead Ringer
Mark Wagstaff - Memorial
Greta Jordan - “No Mummy”

Also:
Helen Crossley - Life Begins at Forty
R. J. Dent -The Purple Butterfly
Shirley Pettit - Wine Snob
Kevin Brookes - The Knife
Shirley Golden - Theory of My Mind
Andrew Beardmore - Them Mozzies
Adrian Kirsten - The Reunion
William Wood - How and When
Shirley Golden - Into The West
Bryn Fortey - Sunken Cities
Alfred Kessler - The Sister’s Touch
Greta Jordan - The Best and Last Blow
Away Sponge Cake



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