Do you remember that competition about 'The First Lie'? Bazza won money with his excellent entry. I must say some of the others seemed to me a bit below par, but then I would say that since I didn't win.
The new competition is that old chestnut. You write a review of a book but are mistaken as top what KIND of a book you have. You suppose, let us say, thet
The Trial is a thriller, that
Crime and Punishment is a detective story, that
Das Capital is a book of amusing historical anecdotes (would that it were!). In fact I have taken all these examples from an excellent booklet of NS Competitions from 1979-1988. I might have entered one of them, supposing the author to be dead or gone away, but alas, Bill would know. He wrote the Forward.
150 words by 5 October to
comp@newstatesman.co.uk
Hell, is it 150 or 125 words? I'll check. Do you know, Bazza? Bill?