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What could be coming down the track?! Let your imagination run free in the latest short story competition from the Deepings Literary Festival! Last year Judges were overwhelmed with the quality of all of the entries submitted. Says former Chris Evans 500-word short story Judge, Lynda Hall, ‘We loved the stories that we received last year and when the Signal Box Rebuild Group alighted on this photograph we thought it would inspire some great writing this year too!’ Three categories give even more budding writers the opportunity to participate! The 500 word stories from 5-8 year age group will be judged by Deeping’s own book illustrator, Ellie Sandall of Art Stars. Ellie, who has donated a signed copy of her new book, Balancing Bernie as the first prize says, ‘I am always blown away by the creativity in the young people that I teach and it is fab to give a platform for budding authors of the future!’ 28
Award winning poet, storyteller and rapper, Mark Grist will judge stories from the 500 word stories 8-15 age category. He says ‘As an exsecondary school teacher a lot of my work is designed for young adults so it is absolutely a pleasure to be asked to judge this category and support the Deepings Literary Festival.’ A signed copy of The Primrose Railway Children by Jacqueline Wilson is the prize for the 8-15 age group. This year Deepings Literary Festival Patron Elly Griffiths will judge the newly introduced adult category. Elly says ‘I was delighted to support the Literary Festival event held by the Deepings online which attracted
readers from as far away as Ecuador but it is so nice to see the “real thing” happening this year!’ There will be a £50 book voucher for the winner of the adult category which can extend to 950 words. Winning stories will feature in I’d rather be in Deeping magazine later in the year and there are book prizes for 2nd and 3rd places as well! Entries should be sent to: enquiries@deepingsliteraryfestival.co.uk by 31st March. Winners will be informed by email and the judges’ decisions are final.
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