To enter the
Graham Greene Birthplace Trust’s Creative Writing Awards, writers are invited
to submit written texts to the Awards' Secretary by 1st April 2014 under one or more of eight
categories, and a panel of judges will decide the best entries. Awards will be
announced at the Graham Greene International Festival 2014. Winning texts may
be displayed for the public to read at the Festival and on the Festival's
website.
Prose
writers must begin their competition entries with the following words, and
continue from there:
'Three doors opened off a dark passage. From
behind one of them there seeped the smell of....'
Screenplay
writers and playwrights must embed the following words somewhere in the
dialogue of their competition entries:
'.... Three doors opened off a dark passage. From
behind one of them there seeped the smell of....'
Awards are
offered in the following categories:
(1) best prose fiction writer;
(2) best prose
thriller writer;
(3) best prose
travel writer;
(4) best
screenplay writer;
(5) best
playwright (for theatre);
(6) best writer
of prose, screenplay or play under the age of twenty-one years on 1st April
2014;
(7) best
Berkhamstedian writer of prose, screenplay or play (i.e. a writer who is a
pupil at Berkhamsted School on 1st April 2014);
(8) best Old Berkhamstedian writer of prose, screenplay or play (i.e. a writer who is a
former pupil at Berkhamsted School on 1st April 2014).
The Rules and Practices
governing the Graham Greene Birthplace Trust’s Creative Writing Awards are:
(1) each entry
shall be written mostly in the English language and shall have a title; each
prose entry shall be no more than 800 words; each screenplay and play (for theatre) entry shall be typed on no more than four
sides of A4 paper in a normal font size (e.g. Times New Roman 11pt); the
writer’s name should not be written on the entry, but should be given in the
accompanying e-mail message (v. Rules 2 and 5);
(2) each entry
shall be typed, shall be submitted as a pdf file and attached to an e-mail
message sent to the Awards' Secretary by the closing date which is 1st April
2014;
(3) each entry
must be original and unpublished, must be submitted under a specific category,
and must have been written by the person who submits the work; each entry shall
be a complete text and not an extract from a larger text;
(4) a writer may
submit an entry in more than one category, provided that the entry is different
in each case;
(5) a writer
must supply full contact details, including real name, full postal address and
telephone number, and these details should be given on the e-mail message to
which the entry is attached;
(6) a writer who
submits an entry in category (6) or (7) or (8) must also present evidence of
status and eligibility to the Awards’ Secretary
along with the entry;
(7) entries
received after the closing date shall not be considered for an Award;
(8) writers
shall be responsible for the appropriateness, suitability, decency and legality
of their own written entries, and neither the Graham Greene Birthplace Trust
nor its judges nor any of its members or associates shall be responsible for
the content of such entries;
(9) an entry
which is deemed to be inappropriate, unsuitable, obscene, offensive or illegal
shall not be considered for an Award, and may be the subject of legal action;
(10) Awards
shall be announced at the Graham Greene International Festival in 2014;
(11) an Award
shall be not made under a specific category, if in the opinion of the judges
there is no entry which merits an Award;
(12) the decisions
of the judges shall be final, and no correspondence shall be entered into.
Further
information on and any amendments concerning the Awards may be seen on one of
the GGBT's Facebook pages, which may be accessed from the GGBT website, and on
this Blog.
Graham Greene Birthplace Trust's Creative Writing Awards 2013
Prof Joyce
Stavick (University of North Georgia, USA) presented the prizes for the Graham Greene Birthplace Trust's Creative
Writing Awards 2013 at the sixteenth Graham Greene International Festival in
Deans’ Hall, Berkhamsted School, on Saturday 26th September 2013.
There were winning entries in three categories:
Best Prose Fiction Writer : JD Casteel for ‘Corrosion’
Best Prose Thriller Writer : Peter Guttridge for ‘God’s Lonely Man’
Best Prose Travel Writer : Peter Guttridge for ‘One Day in Caracas’
Prose Writers had to begin with the following words, and
continue from there:
'The
wind rocked the car, and spray broke across the traffic-lanes and misted the
seaward window….'
The winning entries for the Awards in 2013 may be read after clicking the respective links on the Creative Writing page of the GGBT's website.
Prizes were not awarded in the other categories, but Fergal Casey was commended for his entry ‘The Bungalows of Old Hollywood’ in the category of Playwright.
The winning entries for the Awards in 2013 may be read after clicking the respective links on the Creative Writing page of the GGBT's website.
Prizes were not awarded in the other categories, but Fergal Casey was commended for his entry ‘The Bungalows of Old Hollywood’ in the category of Playwright.
