As you can see from some of the previous entries on this site, every six months or so, we set ourselves a short story competition. It's a great opportunity to try out different writing styles or different genres... or stick with what we already know and hope our voice continues to get stronger for the practice.This time, we've decided to align our competition with a public short story competition being run by the Writers and Artists Yearbook. It's on the theme of Identity, and details can be found here. The public competition's entry date is Valentine's Day next year. We'll be handing ours in at the December meeting, ready for voting by January, so hopefully we'll all be ready in good time for the February date, should we decide to enter.It seems only five minutes since the last batch of stories (misleadingly titled 'light and fluffy') got dragged into existence (at least, that's how most of us seemed to feel by the time we'd made our attempts at what should have been the simplest of styles). And now it's Identity. Interestingly, one piece of advice for would-be entrants to the W&A competition was how refreshing the judges found it when they came across something that made them laugh... or presumably just not plunge them into some angst-ridden patch of purple prose.So, who knows, maybe all that sweating over 'light and fluffy' will pay off after all.