I recently had the pleasure to enter a short story contest being held by Skint Writer.
When I found out I’d been given the reader’s choice award I was both astonished and incredibly excited. It’s rather a nice feeling to think that someone liked what you wrote enough actually to vote for it.
Skint writer’s given away various prizes for this contest and mine arrived in the post today, three of his published works. I haven’t had time to read them all yet, but I have started into his book of poetry, “The Words in Me”, and was bowled over by the power of his piece on 9/11, entitled ‘Twin Towers’.
I won’t copy it here, but I would recommend that you read it if you get a chance because it’s very powerful and almost visceral in its quality. It’s brilliantly done and he (not giving away too much here) characterises the Twin Towers as two lovers, which is quite a unique way of looking at it. There are other pieces which I’ve read that are worthy of discussion, but that particular piece was so unique I thought I’d mention it now.
Thank you very much, Skint, for the lovely prizes. It was a greatly exciting thing to have two parcels to open this morning. And thank you to everyone who voted for my story and got me the prizes. I’m really very grateful and very excited by it all, especially considering how wonderful all the stories were. The first prize winner, Robert Kent, wrote a fantastic story with a great ending. If you want to read the contest stories you can visit them here.
Fatal error: Call to undefined function the_bookmark_links() in /home/writenow/public_html/wp-content/themes/Cutline 1.1/single.php on line 17