Deadline: 30 April 2011
Enter April’s writing and image competition for a chance to win a compact Canon camera.
In this month’s Writing the City film, Suchen Christine Lim and Jeremy Sheldon talk about characters. For them, strong characters are often ordinary people living in the city, who are experiencing a conflict between their inner and outer worlds.
The Character Snap Competition challenges you to write a ‘character sketch’ – a short piece of prose, poetry or dialogue that creates a strong impression of a character in an urban setting.
Your writing must be accompanied by an image that tells us something about the character and adds to our understanding of the piece. Images may be photographs, sketches or cartoons, but must be the work of the writer.
Dave Chua, author of the graphic novel Gone Case, will judge the competition. He will be looking for writing and images that succeed in showing us a character, rather than simply describing them.
To begin, watch Characters here.
Rules
* Fiction and drama entries must be no longer than 500 words
* Poetry entries must be no longer than 20 lines
* There is no minimum length requirement
* All entries must follow our Posting Guidelines (except concerning length)
* The writing must take place in an urban setting
* Images must be the work of the writer
* The deadline is Saturday 30 April 2011
To Enter
* Sign up/in at http://civiclife.sg/writingthecity/wp-login.php
* Click on WRITE
* Enter your writing
* Upload your image – for instructions on uploading images, click here
* Tick Character Snap in the categories on the right hand side
* Click Publish
* Click READ to read other people’s entries
Contact Information:
For inquiries: click here
For submissions: click here
Website: http://www.civiclife.sg/writingthecity
Enter April’s writing and image competition for a chance to win a compact Canon camera.
In this month’s Writing the City film, Suchen Christine Lim and Jeremy Sheldon talk about characters. For them, strong characters are often ordinary people living in the city, who are experiencing a conflict between their inner and outer worlds.
The Character Snap Competition challenges you to write a ‘character sketch’ – a short piece of prose, poetry or dialogue that creates a strong impression of a character in an urban setting.
Your writing must be accompanied by an image that tells us something about the character and adds to our understanding of the piece. Images may be photographs, sketches or cartoons, but must be the work of the writer.
Dave Chua, author of the graphic novel Gone Case, will judge the competition. He will be looking for writing and images that succeed in showing us a character, rather than simply describing them.
To begin, watch Characters here.
Rules
* Fiction and drama entries must be no longer than 500 words
* Poetry entries must be no longer than 20 lines
* There is no minimum length requirement
* All entries must follow our Posting Guidelines (except concerning length)
* The writing must take place in an urban setting
* Images must be the work of the writer
* The deadline is Saturday 30 April 2011
To Enter
* Sign up/in at http://civiclife.sg/writingthecity/wp-login.php
* Click on WRITE
* Enter your writing
* Upload your image – for instructions on uploading images, click here
* Tick Character Snap in the categories on the right hand side
* Click Publish
* Click READ to read other people’s entries
Contact Information:
For inquiries: click here
For submissions: click here
Website: http://www.civiclife.sg/writingthecity
