This year’s Guildford Book Festival Short Story award has a fabulous prize and, as far as we know, a first for any literary competition anywhere in the world.
The winning entry will be converted into an iPhone app that can be either read or listened to – we call these Commutabooks.
The entry will be judged on its ability to engage the reader (or listener) such that, if you were commuting, you might even miss your stop – or even stop commuting forever !!!
Entries only have to be 7000 words or length in any genre including inspiring non-fiction or even poetry.
The winner will be announced during the Festival in October this year.
The winning entry and iPhone app will have a narration recorded by a professional voice over artist (or the author themselves) and an embedded video interview with the author.
The winner will also get an e-publishing contract and receive royalties from sales. With 10’s of millions of iPhones and over 1 million iPads and counting, the exposure alone is worth entering the competition for.
So if there is a story inside you waiting to get out, visit the Guildford Book Festival site for details on how to enter.
Entry detailsHow to Enter
This post was last edited by thebookwright, 20 May 2010, 08:05