Shortbread Christmas Formula 500
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Competition Details
With Christmas just around the corner this month's Formula 500 competition has a twist. The word limit is still 500 words, however this time we challange you to master theme while sticking to the very limited word count. The best festive story will be sent around our 6,000 plus Friday Story mailing list on the first Friday of Advent! And as this competiton will judged by the community be sure to vote for your favourite before the first of December.
Shortbread Christmas Formula 500
Published 6 months ago
We started with the short story, and now we’re moving onto the micro-story. The Shortbread Formula 500 is a competition where anything up to 500 words is your limit, so you have to ‘make every frame a Rembrandt’, as was the saying of film cameramen of old when describing the shooting of television adverts. This is a style of writing you can do anywhere, anytime – during your lunch break, in a bus or a train, or even stuck in one of those endless traffic jams. Choose your subject, choose your title, choose your plot – a beginning, middle, and end.
Shortbread wants to encourage everyone to have a go – writers and readers of all ages - so now is the time to tune up your creative engine, psyche yourself up and hit that blank page at speed…
With Christmas just around the corner this month's Formula 500 competition has a twist. The word limit is still 500 words, however this time we challange you to master theme while sticking to the very limited word count. The best festive story will be sent around our 6,000 plus Friday Story mailing list on the first Friday of Advent! And as this competiton will judged by the community be sure to vote for your favourite before the first of December.
Short Story Entries
| Competition Entry | Length | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Read Mary, Jo And The Baby by Diane Dickson | 465 |
| 2 | Read The Light by Jay Leffew | 470 |
| 3 | Read Sleigh Bells by Linda Bond | 347 |
| 4 | Read Northern Star by Michael Dhillon | 463 |
| 5 | Read Yda's Gift by Melford Maderazo | 486 |
| 6 | Read Odd One Out. by Diane Dickson | 321 |
| 7 | Read Four Stages Of Christmas by John Newton | 482 |
| 8 | Read Festive Cheer at the German… by Kate Smart | 484 |
| 9 | Read Snapshot by Charlotta Larsén | 473 |
| 10 | Read On The Thirteenth Day Of… by Helen Somers | 438 |
| Read A Christmas Letter. by Meg Malpass | 417 | |
| Read Exodus by Stephen Hobbs | 472 | |
| Read The Stranger by Jacqui Macpherson | 494 | |
| Read A Modern Day Christmas Carol by Denise Melville | 475 | |
| Read Con-fusion by Wanda McGregor | 468 | |
| Read The Christmas Meeting by Richard Ardus | 490 | |
| Read Panto Drama by Barbara Timmons | 465 | |
| Read The Spider Who Came For… by Suzanne Mays | 473 | |
| Read Christmases Past by Mandy James | 479 | |
| Read Snow Drift by Christine Human | 486 | |
| Read A Happy Christmas by Bernice Delucchi | 511 | |
| Read Where Has All The Joy… by Patsy R… | 438 |