Merry (Early) Christmas! Read the winners of the SCWC December Writing Challenge
Christmas has come a bit early this year! Celebrate with our December gift to you--the wonderful winners of the Southern Christian Writers Conference December Writing Challenge. The challenge this month was to write a diary or journal entry in a childhood voice telling either a true memory of Christmas morning from your youth OR a fictional story about a Christmas morning. We received numerous and varied submissions, and are excited to share the winning stories with you. Congratulations to... 1st place: Pamela Peters 2nd place: Perry Allen 3rd place: Aimee Graham Honorable Mentions: Victoria Cole and Shirley Crowder Enjoy the stories below, and look for them in the upcoming e-book The Write Collection ; the book celebrates all the winners from each month's SCWC challenge throughout 2025. It will be released on Dec.22. (Stay tuned to this blog and the SCWC Facebook group to hear news of its release.) "Dear Diary" by Pamela Peters December 25 Dear Diary, I’m writing this fr...
