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Welcome to the latest newsletter from the team behind the Global Short Story Competition.
Annual story prize winner named
A few weeks ago the team behind the Global Short Story Competition launched a vote to find its annual winner for 2013 and website users have now cast their votes.
The winner of the £250 prize was the winner of the August Global Short Story Competition, Seth Townley, of Bergen, Norway.
John Dean, competition administrator, said: “The quality of our 2013 winners was very high, reflecting the standards reached by so many of our entrants. Seth is a worthy winner.”
The monthly competition, run by Inscribe Media Limited from the North East of England, was launched in December 2007.
Winning stories can be viewed at www.inscribemedia.co.uk where the latest competition can also be entered.
Honours go to writers from Italy and France in competition
Judge Fiona Cooper has selected her winners for the February Global Short Story Competition and writers from Italy and France have taken the honours.
The £100 first place prize goes to Catherine McNamara, of Albettone, Vicenza, Italy, for The Sneeze, of which Fiona says: “This story takes us through the ambivalent and confusing surges of emotional reality that are brought on by enormous changes to one's life. It reads as a compelling stream of consciousness, with vivid snapshots along the way which serve to mark the fleeting changes of mood and reality. While it does not promise a 'happy ending' there is enough in the last two paragraphs to hint at hope and redemption.”
Our highly commended runner up is Vanessa Couchman, of Caylus, Tarn-et Garonne, France, who wins £25 for Into the Abyss, of which Fiona says: “Atmospheric and gripping, this story has a 'hairs on the back of your neck' quality and it is cinematic in quality and also in the way the writer makes the reader see and feel the setting and immediately empathise with the main character. No easy conclusion is reached, but an enormous sigh of relief that someone, at least, will live, we hope, happily ever after. Excellent.“
The writers on the shortlist are:
Fiona J Mackintosh, Silver Spring, MD, United States
Lucy Bignall, Pullenvale, Queensland, Australia
Katy Budd, Hordaland. Norway
Mandy Huggins
Winning stories aree posted on www.inscribemedia.co.uk Well done to our successful writers.
New free flash fiction competition
The team behind The Global Short Story Competition has launched its latest free flash fiction competition. The challenge to writers for this one is produce a story with a beginning, middle and end in no more than 100 words. The deadline is May 13.Prize £50 and you can enter at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Inscribemedia/183385438479538
Hotel to stage residential writing course
Got a story to tell? Keen to be a writer? Then this residential weekend course in the North East of England at The Blackwell Grange in Darlington, County Durham, UK, could be for you.
Experienced creative writing tutor and novelist John Dean, who has had eleven crime novels published by Robert Hale and has appeared in a number of short story anthologies, will run a writing workshop on the weekend of May 16-18 2014 as part of the second Darlington Arts Festival. The weekend includes:
* Two nights Accommodation (Friday 16th and Saturday 17th May 2014), two breakfasts, two dinners and one lunch
* Day-long writing workshop on the Saturday followed by a morning workshop on the Sunday, including how to create characters, structure stories and invoke a strong sense of place.
The cost for the weekend is: £205 per person based on double for sole occupancy, this rate includes VAT. To reserve your place and book your accommodation : Call the Blackwell Grange Hotel on 01325 509955 , their email is reservation.blackwell@forestdale.com. Bookings must be made by Friday 18th April and paid in full to the hotel by Friday 23rd April 2014. Please note that minimum numbers are required for this course to run if this event needs to be cancelled you will be given a minimum 4 weeks’ notice.
Free stuff
There’s loads of free hints on writing at our blog at www.inscribemedia.co.uk and you can also check out our free writers’ toolbox, which can be downloaded off the home page at http://www.inscribemedia.co.uk/
Facebook
You can check out our Facebook page with its news, views and free competitions at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Inscribemedia/183385438479538
Mentoring and courses
For information on our online writing courses and mentoring packages at http://www.inscribemedia.co.uk/writing-courses---bespoke-mentoring.html
Nurturing new talent through our e-books
A reminder that, as part of our efforts to support and showcase new writing talent worldwide, we have published seven e-books
Lost Souls by Roger Barnes When young women start to go missing in Africa, an International Strike Force is assembled to rescue them.
Harry’s Torment by Michael Beck Set in the fictional east coast port of Thirlston and centred on investigators tackling the heroin trade.
Previously published were:
Cyber Rules by Myra King. The novel by Australian writer Myra tells the story of a farmer’s wife in isolated rural Australia. Caught up on the addictive side of the Internet, she holds a secret which may prove to be deadly.
Global Shorts - an anthology of short stories taken from the early years of the Global Short Competition.
Vegemite Whiskers - a selection of some of the finest writing from Australian authors who have entered the Global Short Story Competition.
White Gold by Roger Barnes A thriller by Roger Barnes taking the reader into a world of intrigue and danger set amid the poachers of Africa.
Haghir the Dragon Finder by John Dean, a comic fantasy for older children. Haghir
and his hopeless comrades are dragon slayers seeking a new challenge.
All the titles can be obtained by keying their titles into the search field of the Kindle shop at www.amazon.co.uk Australian readers will have to purchase via Amazon US at www.amazon.com
* If you don’t have a Kindle, there is a free Kindle reading app for your PC at
http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000493771
* You can find more about the books on our website.
Contacting us
You can contact us as deangriss@btinternet.com
Thank you for all your support
John Dean
Inscribe Media
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