BEGIN:VCALENDAR CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-TIMEZONE;VALUE=TEXT:GMT PRODID:PEAK Corporation - piCal - X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:Dickens' Bicentenary Writing Competition VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:GMT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:19390101T000000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120815 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120816 LOCATION:£ 2 - £ 3 TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 UID:pical060-9ab0b2f7053fc19c629a96dc2c86d9d0 DTSTAMP:20120613T185815Z CATEGORIES:Entry Fee,Poetry,U.S. Writers,Entry Fee,Fiction,Entry Fee,Poetry,Worldwide Writers,Entry Fee,Fiction,Entry Fee,Poetry,U.K. Writing Competitions,Entry Fee,Fiction,Entry Fee,Poetry,Writing Contests,Entry Fee,Fiction DESCRIPTION:Entries are invited for a Creative Writing competition for short works of prose inspired, broadly or otherwise, by any character from a Charles Dickens novel. The competition is open to all writers and international submissions are welcome.\nAs a Canterbury based writing group, SaveAs Writers considers Dickens to be very much a product of Kent and there can be no denying the influence the county had on Dickens. Moreover one only has to skim through David Copperfield to grasp the significance of Canterbury in his work. Therefore we want to take this opportunity to celebrate and commemorate the 200th birthday of a truly great writer, much in the same way that our successful ‘Siege of Canterbury’ Millennial Competition did last year.\nThe idea for this competition to focus on a character from Dickens came from a rereading of Carol Ann Duffy’s poem wonderful, and in this case certainly, truly inspirational poem, ‘Havisham’. This poem seems a great starting point if anyone is struggling with the competition! However the entries will not be judged on the entrants’ knowledge of Dickens-it might even be non-existent-but on the quality of the writing.\nPoetry entries will be judged by David Nettleingham and prose entries by Marilyn Donovan.\nAll entries will be judged anonymously. Each piece will be seen by the judges - there is no sifting beforehand. The only requirement in terms of existing work is that it must have not been placed in the top 3 of any previous competition.\n\nDeadline: August 15th 2012 (entries postmarked this date will be accepted)\nThe shortlist and winners will be announced on October 27th 2012 at a special event in Canterbury as part of the Canterbury Umbrella Festival.\nShort listed entries will also be published in a pamphlet form later in the year.\n\nPoems maximum length 50 lines; short stories maximum length 3,000 words\n\nFirst Prize = £30\nSecond Prize = £20\nThird Prize = £15\nEntry fees - £2 per poem, £3 per prose piece\nYour name must not appear on your hard copies but please include a covering letter with your name, contact details, and titles of the entries.\nEntries can be either hard copy or electronic.\nHard copies should be posted to: Luigi Marchini, Chairman, Save As Writers,\n35 Spillett Close, Faversham, Kent, ME13 8QP\nElectronic copies should be sent to saveas@hotmail.co.uk and headed ‘poetry’ or ‘prose’\nIn both cases all monies must be sent to the above address with cheques payable to ‘Save As Writers’.\n\n\nhttp://www.saveaswriters.co.uk\nhttp://www.saveaswriters.co.uk/Docs/dickens.pdf SUMMARY:Dickens' Bicentenary Writing Competition PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR