Hysteria Writing Competition Judges – Abigail Wyatt

Each year we interview our volunteer judges for the Hysteria Writing Competition and I’d like to introduce Abigail Wyatt. Tell me one thing no-one knows about you. This is a really probing question and, being in many ways, a very private person, I am almost tempted to answer it with a scarlet and shocking lie. Instead, though, I will tell reveal to you one of the great guilty secrets of my childhood, the fact that, aged eleven, which was old enough to know better, I stole some jade coloured stone chippings from my grandfather’s grave for no other reason than I thought they were beautiful.  Predictably, perhaps, having once taken them home, I was so tormented by feelings of guilt that I was completely unable to enjoy them.  Instead, I kept them hidden in a jewellery box at the back of my wardrobe until, eventually and several weeks later, I made a visit to the grave to return them.  After that, I felt a good deal better but the incident was a prophetic one. I am very much aware that, as an adult, guilt has been one of my weaknesses. I would have achieved more and been much happier, I think, if I could have ditched some of the self-blame sooner than I actually did. What do you enjoy reading the most and why? Throughout my childhood and adolescence,  I read voraciously, a glorious mix of whatever took my fancy from ‘Jill Has Two Ponies’ and Jean Plaidy to the poetry of Rupert Brooke and the collected works of Oscar Wilde. I come from quite a modest background so ...
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