Have you ever thought about the big events that stopped the world and you remember exactly where you were and what you were doing?
I had the same thought and wrote a short story that I am now adapting into a novel called While No-one Was Watching. This is the story of a little girl that went missing at the exact same moment JFK was shot. So then I got to thinking about other events, the World Trade Center, the London bombing, Diana’s death, the Tsunami, Elvis’s death, the outbreak of war, the atom bombs, assassinations of world leaders….?
Can you write a short story up to 5000 words telling another story about something that happened at the same time as one of these world stopping events? The event has to be real-not fictitious and it has to be something that was big enough to shock the world (not small events, they have to be ones that we will all remember and relate to) but what you choose is up to you and it doesn’t matter if we have more than one story about the same event.
The main thing is that the world event has to be the back-drop of the story and have some relevance to the story but the story has to be about what happened to someone else when the eyes of the world were turned away.
This competition will make you think out of the box and the best 15 stories will be published in a special Competition Anthology in November 2011 on the anniversary of the JFK assassination.
There will also be additional prizes for first and second prize stories.
- 1st Six month one-to-one mentoring (by email) with a published writer, also editor and Creative Writing Lecturer to help you work on a novel or short stories- constructive feedback and advice to help you shape your work and hopefully lead you to further success
- 2nd Written critiques of ten short stories or a novel
See details at http://bridgehousepublishing.co.uk/2010ShortStoryCompetion.aspx
No comments:
Post a Comment