STROUD Short Stories organiser John Holland and SSS anthology editor Nimue Brown have both won awards for their own short story writing.

John has won the 2015 Worcestershire Literary Festival first prize for his flash fiction ‘Sensitive’.

He will be reading this and other stories at ‘Short Stories for Grown-Ups’ at No.23 Bistro in Nelson Street, Stroud on Sunday, August 9 at 8pm.

SSS Anthology editor Nimue Brown was the winner of the short story competition in the inaugural edition of Druid Magazine with her story ‘Know Thyself’.