Hiraeth

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FIRST PLACE £200

Damien McKeating has written stories since his primary school teachers taught him how to put letters together into words. If he looks vague when he talks to you, he’s either working on another story in his head, or the kids haven’t slept again. He is fond of corvids and is currently the oldest he has ever been.

3rd March

It’s going really well here. You’d love it. We’re right on the coast, listening to the waves when we camp, and watching the mountains behind us stretch up into the sky. Sometimes it’s a blue expanse above us, and sometimes the clouds come in like wraiths. The weather can change fast in Wales!

There’s so much to do. We’ve mapped out what we can see of the original settlement and estimated where we might find more. It looks like the rising sea level claimed much of the earlier village. I’ve got my diving gear ready to find