Canterbury Laureate Squad has Announced the Winners for their fiction-mentoring scheme.
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ORIGINALLY only two were meant to win the event but with so many showing a ‘talent for story telling’ Andrew McGuinness and Danny Rhodes, the mentors for this event, decided to pick two winners each rather then one.
Emmi Itaranta, Rebecca Seery, Chris Bennett and Denny Flowers, are the four lucky winners who will receive the one-to-one critical and professional support during 2010.
The deadline for the Competition was on 26th February 2010. Andrew McGuinness said;
“The standard of writing was generally so good that choosing the mentees for the scheme proved extremely difficult.
The Kilkenny County and Borough Councils member then said;
“We received complete short stories and opening excerpts from novellas and novels in many genres, including science fiction, fantasy, historical fiction, romance, thriller, comedy and stories for children. Some writers were relatively new to writing and others were more experienced, but all showed a talent for storytelling".
He later added; “It’s uplifting to know that so many across the district are putting pen to paper and fingers to keyboards, and we wish all the writers the very best for their continued work.”
As well as the winners there were six runner up authors whose works were highly recommended. They were Matthew Carbery, Katie Jane Hogben, Tracy Kelly, Charlotte Matthews, Kaz Russell and Richard Turney.
The Scheme is funded by Canterbury City Council and managed by the Canterbury Festival, Kent’s International Arts Festival that takes place later this year.
If you want any more information on this visit the Write Directions website: http://www.write-here.net/main.cfm?objectid=16
For any more information on the Canterbury Councils Arts Festival click here: http://www.canterburyfestival.co.uk/home.asp
