GGBT Creative Writing Awards 2011
The GGBT's first Creative Writing Awards will be announced at the Festival 2010. Members of the public were invited to submit written texts under one of seven headings, and a panel of judges will decide the best entries. Winning texts may be displayed for the Festival public to read and on the Festival's website.
Awards will be offered to the writers of the best entries in the following categories in 2011:
- best fiction writer
- best thriller writer
- best travel writer
- best screenplay writer
- best writer under the age of twenty-one years on 1st April 2011
- best Berkhamstedian writer (i.e. a writer who is a pupil at Berkhamsted School on 1st April 2011)
- best Old Berkhamstedian writer (i.e. a writer who is a former pupil at Berkhamsted School on 1st April 2011).
The rules and practices governing the Awards are:
- each written text shall be no more than 800 words, except in the case of a screenplay which should be no more than four sides of typed A4 paper;
- each written text shall be typed, shall be submitted as a pdf file and attached to an e-mail message sent to the Awards Secretary, RGuy@berkhamstedschool.org by the closing date, which is 1st April 2011;
- each written text must be original and unpublished, must be submitted under a specific category, and must have been written by the person who submits the work;
- a writer may submit work in more than one category, provided that the work is different in each case;
- a writer must also supply full contact details, including real name, full postal address and telephone number;
- a writer who submits work in category (5), (6) or (7) must also present evidence of status and eligibility to the Awards' Secretary along with the entry;
- entries received after the closing date shall not be considered for an Award;
- writers shall be responsible for the appropriateness, suitability, decency and legality of their own written texts, and neither the Graham Greene Birthplace Trust nor its judges nor any of its members or associates shall be responsible for the content of such texts;
- written texts which are deemed to be inappropriate, unsuitable, obscene, offensive or illegal shall not be considered for an Award, and may be the subject of legal action;
- Awards shall be announced at the Festival in October 2011;
- an Award shall be not made under a specific category if in the opinion of the judges there is no entry which merits an Award;
- the decisions of the judges shall be final, and no correspondence shall be entered into.
Titles or starting points for stories will be announced at the Festival 2010, and publicised on:
The Awards will be judged by Rebekah Lattin-Rawstrone, Creina Mansfield, William Ivory and Dermot Gilvary.