Second prize Catherine Cruse is a 29 year old business coach working and living in London. After completing her English degree she qualified as an accountant and now writes in her spare time in order to make her life a little less taxman, a little more paperback writer. She has had work published on a number of online platforms.

Made the long list (top 5%) for 'A Fairytale'

Second prize for 'Other People's Ghosts'

Unlikely Things That Happen on Reality TV That Never Happen IRL We at the Daily Jam have been watching a lot of telly lately (it’s January – who hasn’t?) and whilst we deeply love reality TV (Made In Chelsea is our favourite, TOWIE is still great, we miss The Hills more than life *heart eye emoji*), it has occurred to us that TV producers seem to live in a bizarre parallel universe that we sadly don’t live in. Therefore, here’s our conclusive list of things that reality TV producers think exist

Yesterday, there was a vote to abolish the so-called ‘tampon tax.’ Feminists started a petition, which took over like wildfire, campaigning to apply the zero rate of VAT (rather than the current, 5% reduced rate) to sanitary products. Most MPs voted against it and now there has been a public outcry on Facebook about how we’re taxed for being women and the government is screwing us over on purpose and so on and it’s made me quite annoyed. But not for the reasons you might think.

A piece I am featured in, giving my input following my article on immigration in London. London360 gives a voice to hidden communities all over London, delivering the latest and the greatest stories from around the Capital. Immigration The topic of immigration rarely leaves the headlines, and London is often at the forefront of this polarised discussion. London360 has been out speaking to people from both sides of the argument, to uncover the current state of the debate.

A new block of flats has appeared next to mine. There used to be a bit of riverside walkway there, I think, and maybe some wasteland. A shop or something. Anyway, whatever was there isn’t there now, replaced almost overnight by roughly 20 floors of identikit one bedroom apartments with shiny bathrooms and lounges by Ikea. They’re nice, I guess. I mean, they’re not exactly works of architectural genius. But they're okay. This isn’t an unusual phenomenon. From my bedroom window in East London I c

Recently, I read a pretty widespread article here in the Huffington Post on why Generation Y kids – my generation, may I add – are so unhappy. This article has been linked to me more than once, and I’ve read it more than once – in fact, I’ve read it over and over, because for a while now I’ve been fascinated by what exactly it is that makes our generation – and even worse, maybe, the generation below me, the ones in Educating Yorkshire who seem to think that natural eyebrows are a kind of infect