The winners of the Graham Greene Birthplace Trust’s Creative Writing Awards for April 2010 are:
Best Fiction: Cathy Hogan (Kilkenny, Ireland)
Best Screenplay: Susan Shemtob (Hertfordshire, England)
Best Under 21 Writer: Rebecca Barrow (Wiltshire, England)
Best Berkhamstedian: Sid Sagar (Hertfordshire, England)
Best Old Berkhamstedian: Anne Chinneck (Devon, England)
Prizes will be presented by the guest speakers, Michael Brearley OBE and Monica Ali, at the Graham Greene International Festival in Deans' Hall, Berkhamsted School (UK) on the afternoon of Saturday 2nd October 2010.
The judges would like to thank all the entrants for their excellent efforts and fine writing. There were many interesting and individual texts, and a great range of styles and subject matter, allied to abundant enthusiasm and impressive commitment to the project. Although Awards were not made in the categories of Travel and Thriller writing, nevertheless the entries were a credit to the writers in all instances.
The titles (or starting-points) for the Awards in April 2011 will be released at the Festival in October 2010, when there will again be Creative Writing Workshops in prose and screenplay writing, this year to be led by Creina Mansfield and William Ivory. These will be practical one-day courses which should suit aspiring adult writers of all ages. Details appear on the Blog posted on 24th July 2010 and on the Festival website.
One feature of William Ivory’s screenplay writing course will be a practical exercise to write film scenes drawn from the first chapter of Greene’s novel Brighton Rock, part one, section one: “Hale knew, before he had been in Brighton three hours, that they meant to murder him....” This exercise will provide a link to Rowan Joffé’s illustrated talk “The Re-imagining of Brighton Rock”, when he will talk about his new film (starring Sam Riley, Andrea Riseborough and Helen Mirren) at the Festival at 11.30am on the following morning, Sunday 3rd October 2010.
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