With close to 250 entries into The Echo and Creative Mullum Short Story Compeittion it was exciting to see the Top Pub in Mullumbimby with standing room only as the top five stories from the adult and under-18 categories were read out.
All the top entries were high quality with MC Mandy Nolan telling the audience that even if they had entered and not made it to the finals they should keep writing.
Winners
‘Everyone, well almost everyone, was at a really high standard and should keep writing,’ she quipped.
The under-18 winner was Ella Maitland with Trapped Langour a Pink Kallopsia who took home $500 donated by Mullumbimby IGA while the adult section was taken out by Doli Incapax by Martin Killips who received a $1,000 prize donated by the Top Pub.
The Echo will publish the two winning stories throughout the month of April.
For four decades The Echo has printed the stories some people loved, some people hated, and some pretended not to read. If you want us to keep telling the truth, the real truth, not the sugar-coated version. We’ll need your support to keep the presses rolling. 
