Shortbread Formula 500: Stories for Children

Shortbread Formula 500: Stories for Children

Published 5 months ago

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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 today's news informing the U.K that 4 million British children don't own a single book, we thought this Formula 500 competition should be child-friendly! The word limit is still 500 words, however this time around we are asking you to write a children's story whilst sticking to the very limited word count.  The best children's story will be sent around our 6,000 plus Friday Story mailing list, and the author will win a host of books for the child in their life!

And as this competiton will judged by the community be sure to vote for your favourite before the 22nd of December. 

 

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