And the winner is

Don’t Blink! Writing Competition

You had to come up with a title for your life story.

We had 160 entries, and 120 that were eligible according to the rules of the competition.

Seven judges chose their top titles. 

The title with the most votes was: Dragonflies Don’t Eat Cake. The winner was Beth Hunt. Congratulations!

Here are the 120

1. 39 Shoes
2. A Breath in the ashtray
3. A discourse into stupidity
4. A Fool’s Journey
5. A Frog in my Basin
6. A Knife’s Edge
7. A life written in pencil
8. All Hands On Dec
9. An Addict Dotal
10. Another Pilgrims Progress
11. Apathy Run Amok
12. Behind My Eyes
13. Bent and Broken
14. Big Horse Woman
15. Book me!
16. Buttercup, Butterfat, Butterfly.
17. Cats, swallows and boomerangs
18. Challenging Philosophy with Chocolate
19. Chicken with Two Lemons
20. Chop Wood, Carry Water
21. Come Into My Parlour!
22. Contagious
23. Conversations with doG. Dyslexic insights……
24. Crumbs In My Cleavage
25. Culture’s child vs Love’s child
26. Dancing with Cats
27. Dear Cosmo
28. Dragonflies Don’t Eat Cake
29. Eating Worms
30. Figuring Out Father
31. From The Ashes We Rise
32. Fucking knock next time!  Please.
33. Garnets and Pearls
34. Genetic Tears
35. Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves
36. Gypsy girl in Jozi
37. Hardship to triumph – Meaningful Answers
38. Here, there and back again
39. High Finance in the Nude
40. Highway in the Desert
41. How long is a string
42. I am home
43. I am, Because of You
44. Imperfections come standard
45. Including Coarse Cancer
46. Is it the dress?
47. Is the minimum enough?
48. Juice
49. Keep the ring
50. Large Fairies
51. Letting go
52. Lick…Lollipops And Life
53. Life on the fence
54. Life Sentences
55. Life through my eye’s
56. Look mum, no hands!
57. Make It Move Me
58. making Daddy proud
59. Mastering Me
60. Me and My Shadow
61. Mist Opportunities
62. Mistakes? I’ve Made A Few!
63. Mixed Destiny
64. Mud, Meadows, Mayhem and Me!
65. My Bright Morning Star
66. My court case with God
67. My crazy, impulsive heart
68. My First Five Hundred Lovers
69. My magnificent cock
70. My Memoire Stick
71. My Otherwise Beautiful Dysfunctional Life
72. My Zululand
73. Naked Fencing for Over Fifties
74. Niknak toes & Candyfloss Shoes!
75. Not So Simply – My Life
76. Now what?
77. Oh No – What’s Next?
78. On the edge of normalcy
79. On your marks? Get set …
80. Open with Caution!
81. Out of Silence
82. Painting with string.
83. Pills, Thrills and Spills
84. Pinking the zebra
85. Prozac in the Bell Jar
86. Punishment of the Innocent
87. Recycled
88. Remember to Exhale
89. Road to Damascus
90. Say No More
91. Scorned Soul
92. Sharks and Champagne
93. Singing in the storm
94. Smiles To Go
95. Smoke & Mirrors
96. Son of a barber
97. Sorry Earth, all my fault
98. Starting out Small
99. That Red Dress
100. The Colour Amber
101. The Die Is Cast
102. The Distance To Here
103. The littlest piggy had none
104. The Midnight Flip
105. The One-Armed Bandit
106. The Red Skirt
107. The Rock Called Me Back
108. Their Seed and Sorrowing God
109. Thicker Than Water
110. Thirty Years of Secret Thoughts
111. To All My Yesterdays, Farewell
112. Tunnel Vision
113. Two Sisters – A World Apart
114. Unashamedly Me
115. Waiting for Rain
116. Waiting For The Punchline
117. What next?
118. Where Dilly-Dragons danced!
119. Whispers in the Wind
120. Who Took My Comfort Zone?