The 4th Annual Ted Walters International Short Story, Poetry and Playwriting Competition 2010

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This competition will be officially launched on Tuesday 19th January 2010. This will be our writing group’s fourth annual Ted Walters international writing competition that our creative group has run now, and we hope that this competition will be just as successful, or even more successful as our last three competitions have been.

Every single entry that comes into our competition; and you can send in as many entries as you wish, generates a £1 donation for our writing group’s chosen charity, which has always been the ‘Macmillan Cancer Support’. We donated a cheque to them in 2007 for the amount of £374. In 2008, Liverpool’s year as ‘The European Capital of Culture for 2008’, we proudly donated a cheque to them for the amount of £801. Last year in 2009 we donated a further £470 totalling £1645 so far. Hopefully for this year of 2010 we would like to generate even more much needed money for such a truly worthy cause that continues to help and support cancer sufferers, but to do this successfully we will need your help, co-operation, participation and support in
this writing competition.

Please find above links to PDF Documents copy of an Entry Form for ‘The 4th Annual Ted Walters International Short Story, Poetry and Playwriting Competition 2010’, which also includes a list of last years successful winners, runner-ups and third placed, and those writers who were short listed, as well as a competition flyer to put up and advertise the event wherever you can do, and if you would please. We would really appreciate it if you could all forward this entry form onto as many of your contacts as you possibly can please, and ask all of them to kindly do the same. You may print off as many copies of the entry forms as you wish, or contact me by email with your address and I will send you some entry forms out by post if you prefer. If you do have your own website could you advertise this competition there for us as well please? I am told by a very reliable source in our writing group that we should have our own website up and running over the period of the next few months.

This competition was set up by me with the full consent of all of our creative writing group members, to remember one of our own dearly missed and very talented writing group members, Mr Ted Walters, who was in himself an excellent writer and a wonderful compassionate, caring, human being, who sadly died of Cancer on the 15th August 2006. Thank you for taking the time to read this letter, I sincerely hope you all have a wonderful and very Happy and Peaceful New Year for 2010, and all take really good care of yourselves, especially with the never ending current Arctic snow and icy conditions that’s spread throughout the whole of the U.K.

If you need me to help you to advertise or spread the word around to as many writing groups and writers as possible, about any up and coming writing events, competitions or writing festivals, I will be only too happy to help any one or all of you. Please don’t hesitate to let me know if I can be of some help.

Please say a prayer for the poor unfortunate people of Haiti I know most of you like me, after having witnessed the devastation and the tremendous loss and sufferings of both human and animal’s lives, during and after the horrendous earthquake that we saw and heard on our TV’s and Radio stations on the Island of Haiti, are deeply upset. I am sure that all of our special thoughts and prayers as well as the courageous specialised manual help and assistance from many concerned countries, will go out to all those unfortunate inhabitants of that small Island at this their very sad time of the year. The inhabitants whose lives have been deeply affected and devastated by a huge earthquake measuring 7.0 that rocked their impoverished Caribbean nation of Haiti, toppling their buildings and causing widespread death, damage disaster and panic. God bless and please help them all.
Copyright © Thomas Francis Sean McBride, Liverpool, England. January 2010

Slán go fóill (Stay safe until we meet again.)

Kind Regards
Tommy McBride:
Group Secretary / Founder Member.
The University of Liverpool Creative Writing Society for Lifelong Learning
Tel: 0151 291 6942
Email: thomas.mcbride2@sky.com

 


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