Time To Write Up Your Story

18/06/08 - AMATEUR authors still have time to put pen to paper and hear their tales being read at Darlington’s story-telling festival.

A short story competition is being run by Darlington Council as part of its Making Waste Work campaign, which aims to get everyone in Darlington to think about the waste they produce and to reduce, reuse and recycle as much as possible.

Wannabe authors are being asked to write a short story, of no more than 2,000 words, on the theme of Making Waste Work.

The story can be about any aspect of being environmentally-friendly, as long as it fits the reduce, reuse, recycle theme.

There are two categories – one for children up to the age of 16 and one for adults.

The winning story in each category will be read at the annual Darlington Story-Telling Festival at Drinkfield Nature Reserve on Saturday August 2 and will be published on the Council’s Making Waste Work website.

The authors will also receive a goody bag of green products.

Entries should be sent to Story Competition, Darlington Council, Room 112, Town Hall, Darlington, DL1 5QT by Tuesday July 1. To help reduce the amount of paper we all use, stories can also be e-mailed to town.crier@darlington.gov.uk

All entries must be original fiction, no more than 2,000 words long and have not been published before.

The judges’ decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.