THE ANGLICAN/PAGES BOOK STORE
Christmas Short Story competition
THE ANGLICAN newspaper will celebrate its seventh anniversary in December 2010 with a sponsored Christmas Short Story competition, expected to attract Anglicans of every age group.
Pages Bookstore will be the main corporate sponsor of the Christmas short story competition and a number of other private sector organizations have already indicated interest in supporting the venture.
The short story competition is primarily intended as an on-going development of THE ANGLICAN newspaper, which has been opening its columns to reach and embrace all Anglican communicants since its inaugural edition in December 2003.
The coming short story writing competition, which is to become an annual event, will be opened to Anglicans in four age categories: Nine years and under, specifically catering to primary schoolers; ten to 17 age group, 18 to 25 and the 25 and over age group. This is to ensure that as wide as possible a cross-section of Anglicans, especially the youth, are afforded the opportunity to showcase their literary and artistic skills on a level playing and be judged with their peers.
There will be winning and consolation prizes in each of the four categories.
The short stories must be placed in a Barbados or Caribbean setting and must relate a Christmas experience.
Entries must not exceed 1,500 words and must be submitted in double-line spacing, on white letter-sized paper, with the author’s name, address, telephone number and the church to which the writer belongs.
Entries addressed to The Diocese of Barbados, “Mandeville House” Henry’s Lane, Collymore Rock, St. Michael, must reach Diocesan House no later than October 15, 2010.
Winning entries will be published in a special supplement of THE ANGLICAN’s Christmas edition.
The competition will be judged by Anglican Priest, Father John Rogers, Rector of St. Luke, a published author and song writer; Mr. Tony Cave, a retired journalist/broadcaster, who once served as Government’s Chief Information Officer, and Mrs. Sophia Cambridge, a trained and experienced journalist, former news anchor at the Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation, now Public Relations Manager with Banks Holdings.
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