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John Gilbert over
18
RATTLESNAKE POISON
From this angle, the city looks very different. Saying that, my
leg doesn’t look too clever from here either. What the hell
hit me?
Let’s not think about that just yet. Concentrate on the roof
tops. Weird, I don’t think I have ever really looked up in
the two years I have lived here. Never looked above the brightly
coloured plastic façades that brandish all the high street
names boasting of this weeks sales. Maybe everyone should take a
couple of minutes when they are next in the city, find a bit of
space and just lie down and look up. More...
Toby Limbach 12-18 category (16 years old)
PARIS, THE HIDDEN CITY
The concrete labyrinths of Paris hold many secrets. Some are dark
and lost, others dark and remembered. This story however, refrains
from darkness, and fights the black in it’s own backyard…Officially,
The Society lives in name only, a title graciously displayed
on a black-and-white police document somewhere in Paris, hidden
under dusty memos and unanswered correspondence. Unofficially, a
group of dedicated men lie on grubby sleeping bags in the heart
of the sewers, their treasure waiting. More...
Oskar Allen under 12 category (11 years old)
CAT'S EYE VIEW
Dusk. I had just been let out. I sniffed the air for the first
kill of the night but nothing was around yet. I went round into
the front garden over the fence and onto the noisy high street.
I loved the perpetual buzz of a Saturday night, well I probably
liked the left over food more than the buzz but still, the buzz
came with the food. More...
About the competition
We couldn’t have the Fringe without a competition but
we nearly did this year so at the last minute we have thought one
up - it’s the great Fringe Creative
Writing competition -
This is your chance to get creative
What do you have to do? Write an essay, short
story or poem on the theme ‘in the city’
It can be this city, or another city, it should fit on one page
of A4 (we may accept it if it wanders onto 2 sides), preferably
typed, and from any perspective that you like.
There are three age categories, under 12, 12-18 and over 18. If
your entry is chosen, you will be invited to read at one of the
Fringe Words and Music events at the Maddermarket Theatre Bar –
if you want to do that please make sure you are free on 11 October
at 7pm. If you don’t want to read it yourself, someone else
can do it for you.
Winning entries will also be publicised on our website, our partners’
websites and read out on Future Radio’s Community Chest programme
(and possibly BBC Radio Norfolk), plus other opportunities for publication
through the great Fringe publicity machine – and there will
be a book prize for each category too!
Entry deadline is 5pm Saturday 6 October. Please email entries to
fringecompetition@gmail.com, or post to Fringe Festival Competition
c/o Fringe Box Office, Norwich Studio Art Gallery, Upper St Giles,
Norwich NR2 1AB. Don’t forget to include
your name, address age group and contact details including email
address if possible
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We have winners
Thank you very much to everyone who entered the Fringe Festival
Creative Writing Competition. We had a great time reading the entries
and it was very hard to choose the winners - but as it was a competition,
we had to! We liked all of the entries for different reasons but
here are the one ones we chose.
Prizes are signed copies of Nick Hornby's new teenage novel, 'Slam'
and Malorie Blackman's new novel 'The stuff of Nightmares' and kindly
given signed copies of 'The Inventors' by local authors Alexander
Gordon Smith and Jamie Webb, Plus Trezza Azzopardi, Blake Morrison
and Dale Turner.
Over 18
Winner
John Gilbert
Highly commended
Hayley Buckland
Eleanor Trett
12-18
Winner
Toby Limbach (16)
Highly commended
Jordan Neale (12)
under 12
Winner
Oskar Allen (11)
Highly commended
Ira Tungate (7)
George Turner (8)
Harry Turner (6)
The winning entries will be read on Future Radio's (96.9fm) Community
Chest programme with Alison Turner between 10am-1pm on Tuesday 16th
October and at The Words and Music performance at the Maddermarket
Theatre Bar on 11 October.There will be a book prize for all winners
and runners up. We will put the entries on the Fringe website as
soon as we can.
Thank you very much to all those that didn't win but keep on writing.
Best wishes
Fringe Team
The Rules
1. Stories must be no longer than 1 page and must
be on the theme of 'In the city' and may be poetry, prose or essay
2. Stories must not have been published in print, electronically
or
in any other form previous to submission for this contest.
3. Submission format: 1 copy of the story should be submitted
in hard or electronic copy, printed on A4 white paper with the writer's
contact details (name, address, telephone number and email address
if possible) plus age category entered attached on a separate page.
No original copies of entries should be entered as submissions will
not be returned. The envelope should be marked 'Fringe Competition'.
4. For each age category the entrant should be under 12 or 18 years
of age or less on the 1st October.
5. Entries arriving after 6 October will not be considered.
6. Entries under pen names and c/o addresses will not be
considered. The work must be that of the person whose contact details
are supplied and work cannot be entered on behalf of another person.
7. Joint entries will not be eligible.
8. The decision of the judges is final and no correspondence will
be entered into.
10. By entering, the writer agrees to allow publication by the Fringe
in any format.
11. The Fringe will not sell any entry or allow publication by any
other organisation without the writer's permission
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