2016
2016 Tony Flood stood down as Chairman and was presented with a book of press cuttings, reports and pictures to commemorate the club's achievements during his five years in the role, as well as an Outstanding Service award. His last acts as Chairman were to invite top crime writer Peter James to join us as Patron in succession to Jeffrey Holland, and fellow best selling author Tamara McKinley and actor Brian Capron to come on board as Vice Presidents.
Tony was elected President, and Alan Baker took over as Chairman. Gareth Thomas and Liz Wright stood down as Anderida's website host and contents editor respectively. Alaistair Colley and his father Rod took over as website hosts and maintainers, while former Anderida chairman Rob Crouch became website contents editor.
After trying several venues, we established ourselves at the West Rocks Hotel, Eastbourne, who provided a meeting room free of charge. This excellent deal was negotiated by Dave Wells, and he received the Anderida Accolade for outstanding service during the year.
The winner of the Short Story competition was again Alan Baker, with Heather Flood retaining the Poetry prize.
We also held a Flash Fiction competition in conjunction with the launch of Tony Flood's crime thriller Triple Tease by actor Brian Capron, Tamara McKinley and Alan Baker.
Brian and Tamara judged the competition which was won by Juliette Hale, with the runners-up awards going to Mary Farmer, Beryl Teso and Mike Smith, while Carol Burge and Stephen Houghton were highly commended.