Congratulations to long-term Folkestone resident Louise Peregrina who has scooped Folkestone StoryMap‘s short story competition winning £100 for her story Time and Motion.
The free to enter competition was open over the summer for short stories inspired by one of Folkestone’s most famous writers, HG Wells.
Time and Motion will now be recorded by an actor and join the six other stories located in the Lower Leas Coastal Park which are all accessible via QR codes.
Her story was partly inspired by her love of local history and the fact that HG Wells used to refer to Folkestone’s second now defunct funicular lift near his Spade House home as ‘his moving staircase’.
Louise, a grandmother of seven, was born in Folkestone and used to live opposite a library, often devouring a book a night and visiting the library by day in search of new books. It was only after retiring from a career in education that she’s been able to dedicate more time to her writing.
Her first children’s novel Gramps and the Shield Bugs is published 28 September. You can find out more about Louise a louiseperegrina.com.