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| Peter Guttridge receives his Awards from Prof Joyce Stavick |
Prof Joyce Stavick (University of North Georgia, USA) (above, right) 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 (England, UK), 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 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.
A Note on the Entries
In a truly international competition entries arrived from writers in England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Spain and USA, from as close as Greene’s home town of Berkhamsted and from as far away as San Francisco, California.
The judges would like to thank all the entrants for their keen interest and good writing. The best entries made good use of the Starting Point, which was made to seem an integral part of the writing, as opposed to an irrelevant opening (or middle) sentence, and they were well suited to the category for which they had been entered. They were written imaginatively and accurately, and they focused on an interesting and thoughtful situation.
Some less successful entries made little or no use of the Starting Point, or they were unfocused or tried to include too many ideas. Some entries were free of error, but many needed more careful proof-reading and greater awareness of grammatical and syntactical conventions.
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