Southport writer scoops second international award
Beulah Harris doesn't settle for anything mediocre.
Southport resident Beulah Harris has done it again by winning an international writing competition two years in a row.
Harris was one of hundreds of entrants in Jon Elkon’s Megasaga Writing Competition 2022.
She was shortlisted to number 12, before being declared the joint winner with Lorna Malan from Amanzimtoti.
Harris said winning the competition for the second time meant a lot to her and adds to her CV as a potentially published author.
“It means so much to me to be crowned the winner, it doesn’t only affirm that I am doing something right with my writing. When I won, I punched the air, and sang ‘So she wins again!’ A great moment,” said Harris.
“My winning entry was a rather sinister personification of the sea. The competition is for a story in exactly 100 words and mine was called ‘I’.
She said writing has been her passion which she pursued since she was a little girl, aged seven.
“Writing stopped being a hobby many years ago when it became a way of life, which I suppose is just another way of saying it is a hobby until I can make a living from it.
“My most loved piece has to be one of my short stories, ‘Sunday’s Child’. However, my stories vary from dark and sinister, to light and funny.”
She said her readers love her work which is a wonderful reward.
The 58-year-old writer said she has a Facebook page, Beulah’s Telling Tales which currently has 263 members.
She said one of the challenges of the competition was to write something meaningful, well-crafted, with a twist. “One should just enjoy it,” she concluded.
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