Writers' News - Double delight

	Double delight Durham author, Roz Southey, is celebrating a double win after hearing that one of her short stories has won two prizes. Roz, who has been writing since the age of eleven, has had a number of short stories published in small press magazines but says it is the first time she has won a major prize. The competition, was one of a number run by the David St John Thomas Charitable Trust Awards in conjunction with Writers’ News. ‘I was over the moon when I heard I’d won one of their competitions and to find, when I got to the prize-giving in Harrogate, that I’d won a second prize for the same story, was the icing on the cake.
	It has been a good year for Roz. At the turn of the year she had one of her compositions, a piece for solo oboe,published by Contemporary Music Publications of London and she is looking forward to the publication of a book about musicians in the north-east during the 18th century. ‘I’ve been writing the book for eighteen months now,’ Roz says, ‘and publication has sometimes seemed a long way off.’ The book, Music-Making in Eighteenth Century North-East England, to be published by Ashgate, is scheduled to appear early in 2006. ‘Now I’m looking forward to concentrating on other projects,’ adds Roz. ‘I’m in the middle of writing a crime novel which I’m eager to finish. And I’ll certainly be trying a few more short story competitions.’