Community Care creative writing competition: Pick the winner

The three shortlisted candidates for the Community Care creative writing competition have been selected. It is now up to you to decide who claims first, second and third place.

The winner will be awarded £100 in book tokens, with £50 and £25 for second and third place. Voting ends on November 29, with the winner announced the following day.

We had many entries of a very high quality and a big thanks must go to our guest judge, the writer and former social worker Alison Taylor, for reading through them all.

The three shortlisted entries are:

Before You Go by Sukey Tarr

Leading Lady by Melanie Cavanagh

Untitled by Carol Parkin

Take a look at the stories using the links above and then vote below on which you think should win the competition.