Internationals Over 31s young writer the late Kerry Ann McLeod from the West Indies has won the 2020 Internationals Over 31s Basil Sellers Award presented at the annual young writers conference on the Gold Coast on Saturday.
The Awards are presented at 4.00pm of the conference each year – there are a number of awards but with Covid 19 restrictions many were unable to attend in 2020.
Each of the Internationals Over 31s young writers in the Press Service International program in conjunction with Christian Today sent in their BEST article for the five Panellists to mark out of 25 - the 25 mark was chosen as in previous years there have been too many multiple winners out of 10 marks.
Last week we announced the passing to Glory of West Indian Over 31s International writer Kerry-Ann McLeod last week from Scleroderma (Systemic Sclerosis). We mourn with husband Patrick McLeod and son, Ryan McLeod 10.
Three weeks ago Kerry-Ann was delighted to learn the Panellists had awarded her the 2020 Internationals Over 31s Basil Sellers Award. This article today Kerry-Ann submitted two weeks ago for publishing today.
The Internationals Over 31s Panellists
Rex Dale - retired professional
John Yates - Anglican Minister - Perth
Christina Tyson - ret Sallies NZ editor
Graham McDonald - President of Diduno
Mussita Ng - former editor Internationals
The Internationals Over 31s young writers are slotted into Week 5 in the program’s
Week 5 - editor Francesca Tavares
Kerry Ann McLeod
Kerry Ann McLeod’s winning article was titled - All that glitters
https://christiantoday.com.au/news/all-that-glitters.html
Kerry-Ann was a wife, mother, and retired High School Mathematics teacher who loved to write Christian meditations and lead the youth in Bible study.
She was a passionate worship leader and a youth ministry coordinator at her church. Currently, she was a member of the Christian Game Development Conference pursuing her vision of creating industry standard Christian entertainment.
Dr Mark Tronson - a 4 min video
Chairman – Well-Being Australia
Baptist Minister 45 years
- 1984 - Australian cricket team chaplain 17 years (Ret)
- 2001 - Life After Cricket (18 years Ret)
- 2009 - Olympic Ministry Medal – presented by Carl Lewis
- 2019 - The Gutenberg - (ARPA Christian Media premier award)
Gutenberg video - 2min 14sec
Married to Delma for 45 years with 4 children and 6 grand children