2023
2023 Following the reduction in the subscription because Covid caused meetings to be cancelled, it was agreed that the annual subscription should revert to £26 a year, due at the AGM on the second Tuesday of April each year.
Members paying at least £10 of this subscription prior to the AGM were eligible to vote at the AGM.
Tributes were given at the AGM to the late Rod Colley and to Dave Wells, unable to attend due to poor health. Dave was made an honorary member.
Chairman Tony Flood reported that members had given helpful critiques to those reading extracts from their work, with our best-selling author Tamara McKinley giving particularly helpful feedback. But, in the main, it had fallen on the same few people to serve on the committee and in some cases hold two or three positions. Fortunately, Christine Racher and John Silverton were stepping up to fill the positions of secretary and assistant secretary following Heather Flood's decision to stand down as secretary for health reasons.
Thanks to the arrangement we have with the Hydro Hotel to hold meetings without paying any hire fees, Anderida had a very healthy bank balance of £973.78.
During the year both Tony and Tamara held book signings for their new books, coupled with Anderida meetings. That option is open to other members who bring out new books, including the collective of seven or eight writers combining in a project launched by John Newton.
Treasurer Francis Wait reported that we ended the year with a small profit of £314..20p, but this did not include a payment yet to be made to Alistair Colley of £205 for maintaining our Website because his invoice had yet to be received.
It was agreed that Anderida open an account with Metro Bank because Francis said they would give a better service than Barclays. But we will keep our Barclays account open with a small balance in it.
OFFICERS ELECTED: Patron – Tamara McKinley; President – Tony Flood; Vice President – Brian Capron; Chairman – Tony Flood; Vice Chairman – Nigel Gearing; Secretary – Christine Racher; Assistant Secretary – John Silverton; Treasurer – Francis Wait; Assistant treasurer – Michael Racher; Competition secretary – Francis Wait; Assistant competition secretary – Tamara McKinley; Membership secretary – Francis Wait; Website joint editors – Tony Flood and Denis Stidder; Website administrator – Alistair Colley; Facebook page administrators – Tony Flood and Alistair Colley; Publicity and marketing officer – Tony Flood.


ANDERIDA ACCOLADE WINNERS 2010 – Liz Wright. 2011 – Liz Baker. 2012 – Tony Flood. 2013 – Jenny Jewiss & Mike Fleming 2014 – Francis Wait & Maira Louka 2015 – Heather Flood 2016 – Dave Wells 2017 – Alan Baker 2018 – Tony Flood 2019 – Roger Hardman & Francis Wait. 2020 – Tony Flood 2021 – Tony Flood 2022 – Francis Wait 2023 – Tamara McKinley and Heather Flood Special service awards were awarded in recent years to Harry Pope, Tony Flood, Michael Fleming, Roger Hardman and Dave Wells.

ANNUAL SHORT STORY WINNERS 2011 – Heather Flood 2012 – Tony Flood 2013 – Tony Flood 2014 – Tony Flood 2015 – Alan Baker 2016 – Alan Baker 2017 – Alan Baker 2018 – Francis Wait 2019 – John Ellick 2020 – no competition due to Covid 2021 – Patrick Chapman and Tony Flood 2022 – Francis Wait

POETRY WINNERS 2015 – Heather Flood 2016 – Heather Flood 2017 – Heather Flood 2018 – Michael Racher 2019 – Laurie Wilkinson 2020 – no competition due to covid 2021 – Heather Flood 2022 – John Silverton

2011 Open competition: Short Story: 1st – Stuart Conde from Burgess Hill. 2nd – Andrew Cambell-Kearsey from Brighton. 3rd – Carmel Gregg from Eastbourne. Poetry: 1st – Mike Fleming from Eastbourne. 2nd – Rita Pedrick from Eastbourne. Joint 3rd – Gillian Church from Willingdon and Ann Bissett from Eastbourne. Non–Fiction: 1st – Harry Bankhead (aged 92) from Eastbourne. 2nd – Jill Rutherford from Eastbourne. 3rd – Eileen Nightingale from Eastbourne.

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