MA Creative Writing Sue Dukes is this year’s winner of the Evening Echo fiction serial competition with her entry entitled “Personal Services”, about a masseuse in Cork with several dark secrets.

The contest, which is in its second year,  is run as part of the MA Writing for Media module in collaboration with the Evening Echo. http://www.eveningecho.ie/

The runner-up was Uversity student Luisa Geisler, whose soap “12 Letters from Home” concerns the Cork-based relationship between a Brazilian woman and an Irishman.  Third placed Jacqui Corcoran was commissioned to write a short story for the Holly Bough, the Examiner’s Christmas publication.

Features Editor John Dolan who adjudicated the student submissions said this year’s entries were marked by “lots of good humour, which is not an easy genre”.

The students’ 12-episode soap serials will run in the newspaper and on  the Evening Echo website during July and August. Watch this space!