Creative Ink Publishing
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The ‘Dear John, Dear Anyone …’ writing competition raised £765 for the British Heart Foundation and Hearts & Souls. Many thanks to the 153 entrants.

Judged by Tony McHale, BAFTA award winning producer of ‘Holby City’ and BBC scriptwriter and director of ‘Casualty’ and ‘EastEnders’, the finalists' missives will be filmed by Creative Ink for Actors with £100 for the best of the bunch.

'Dear John, Dear Anyone' … Short List

1.	Dear Dante – Alex Black
2.	Dear Johnny – Elizabeth Davey
3.	Dear Danny – Chris Delaney
4.	Dear Jane – E. Fletcher
5.	Dear Sirs – Ian Johnson
6.	Dear Philip – Fiona McCready
7.	Dear Mammy – Elaine Mulvaney
8.	Dear Lucy – Laila Murphy
9.	Dear Peter – Sam Pepper
10.	Dear Julia – Phillip Sheahan
11.	Dear John – Jennifer Sherry

  
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In tandem, Creative Ink is delighted to be launching its publishing company with the publication of Patricia Sentinella's poetry and narrative collection entitled: Dear John, Dear Anyone …

'Voyagers afloat, lips tasting of salt and we are on our way. It's Islington, 1963 or is it decades later? Next morning, your lover has disappeared, locked the door and you stay for some seasons of chilled anniversaries until your pen fits the lock and you walk back into your life: a room somewhere in Kilburn with a rose garden, and a letter for or from John or someone …'

If you have never been single, then Patricia Sentinella's words are not for you. She writes as a buoyed voyager through a smoky city: lost, now joined, now leaving, now left, but always arriving somewhere else for life is work in progress.

'Dear John, This is the most difficult text I have ever sent …

Priced £7.99 and available on Amazon, Waterstones or send cheque to 2, Church Cottages, South Weston, Thame, Oxon, 0X9 7EF with SAE (two 2nd class stamps).

‘A winner on your hands', 'inspirational,' 'skilled and thought provoking with that 'je ne sais quoi' which marks her out as a professional' 'I can't put it down', ‘my dad had nicked my copy and fallen in love. Where can I buy more?’

'I was gripped from page 1' – Lucy Cork – Bucks Examiner