As part of events relating to this year’s Booker Prize at Birkbeck, a Creative Writing competition has been opened to Birkbeck students from any School and Department, on the theme of ‘Adaptation’. Prizes will be awarded by celebrated novelist Ian McEwan.
McEwan is giving this year’s Booker Prize lecture on the 7 November; with Christopher Hampton, he will be discussing his novel Atonement and its film adaptation by Hampton.
Tickets for the event are available here: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/events/remote_event_view?id=7388.
Students are invited to submit up to 3,000 words of creative writing prose (fiction or non-fiction), by 5pm on October 25, at this link: http://mironline.org/bookerprizecompetition/. The theme of ‘adaptation’ can be interpreted according to its many resonances, whether literary, biological, psychological, or social (amongst others).
The winner, and two runners-up, will be presented with a prize of book tokens by Ian McEwan, and will have their writing published on the Mechanics’ Institute Review online.
We look forward to receiving your submissions!
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