University of Huddersfield has launched a short story and poetry competition to find material for its new anthology Grist.
The once a year publication will include the winning selections alongside established writers.
The Grist website explains: "Grist is interested in fresh new voices with something to say.
By publishing emerging writers alongside established writers, Grist provides a unique opportunity for those starting out in their writing careers. For the reader of Grist, each issue in book form will provide two hundred pages of the best new writing around."
Joanne Harris
Short stories can be up to 3,500 words on any subject and there is a £3 entry fee per story. You may submit as many stories as you like. Joanne Harris author of Chocolat and Runemarks will be the judge.
The three overall winners will receive a cash prize. The three winners and all runners up will be published in the next issue of Grist. The closing date November 30th 2008.
Simon Armitage will judge the poetry competition. Poems should be up to 40 lines and can be on any subject. Entry is £3 per poem and you can submit as many poems as you like.
The three overall winners will receive a cash prize. The three winners and all runners up will be published in the next issue of Grist. Again the closing date is November 30th 2008.
There are other rules about style of manuscript and you have to print off an entry form available at the competition's website at www.hud.ac.uk/mh/english/grist/index.htm
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Been gearing up for the 2008 Kawaii-Kon. Watched the live action movie version of Death Note. Chairman Kaga from Iron Chef is the actor who plays Light Yagami’s father. I kept saying out loud after each one of his monologues, “Iron Cuisine!” I couldn’t help myself. This is why you don’t want to sit next to me in the theater. My only redemption was that I was watching this at home and thus only one other heard my outbursts.
Couple of reactions to the movie:
- Read the manga, it tells the same story in about a 1/2 hour read as opposed to sitting through a two hour movie;
- The actors they cast looked amazingly similar to the manga characters, how’d they do that?
What else? I borrowed the dvd from the library. The packaging is interesting there’s Korean on the cover art and it looks like it’s distributed from Taiwan yet for the dubbing options, there’s Japanese, English and Cantonese.
The next anime I’m hoping to watch is Tekkonkinkreet, it’s been getting all sorts of buzz from all over the place.
One final note Kawaii Kon 2008 is April 18-20th at the Hawaii Convention Center. Jolene and I will be there with a couple of other Young Adult Librarians to promote library services to convention attendees. One of us will blog with pictures about the event so you all can enjoy.
