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1. Crime Short Story Competition
Have you got what it takes to be the next Steig Larsson or Henning Mankell? If so there’s a place on a Birkbeck College creative writing course up for grabs when you take part in the Brent Libraries short story competition. Swedish crime fiction author Camilla Ceder has written the opening line to a story.
I teorin har Margareta fungerat väl som hans representativa partner. Margareta är en så kallad bedagad skönhet, en gång i tiden en ”sjungande skönhetsmiss”. Det hade inte skadat om hon drack mindre.
In theory, Margaret had functioned well as his partner. She was a faded beauty who had once been a celebrated singer. It would not have hurt for her to drink less.
All you have to do is complete the story in no more than 2,000 words. Brent Libraries, poet Kate Potts and author Gunnar Staalesen will judge the competition
2. Creative Writing Workshop
If you need help with writing short stories you may like to join the Willesden Green Writers Group, which meets every Thursday, 8pm at Willesden Green Library Centre. Birkbeck College will also be running a free workshop on how to get started with fiction at Willesden Green Library Centre on Tuesday 15 February, 6–7.30pm. Julia Bell, novelist and Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Birkbeck, will provide you with exercises and extracts to fire your imagination and give you a preview of the kind of courses on offer at Birkbeck. Want to find out more about Creative Writing at Birkbeck? Visit the new Writers Hub website at www.writershub.co.uk for hints and tips to help improve your work.
3. Exclusive author visit from Norway (interviews will be granted to interested newspapers/magazines)
Following the recent popularity of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy, interest in Scandinavian crime fiction has exploded. We bring you Norway’s best selling crime writer Gunnar Staalesen. Gunnar will be giving a free talk and reading at Willesden Green Library on March 3 at 7pm. Gunnar is travelling all the way from Norway. He will present the winner and runners up of the short story competition with their prizes.
4. New crime stock
If you are looking for inspiration or a gripping read to get you through the winter nights then Brent Libraries have new crime collections at Town Hall, Willesden and Kilburn Libraries featuring the best of Henning Mankell, Jo Nesbo, Arnaldur Indridason and more. Get ready to discover some of the best writing that the northern hemisphere has to offer at your local library.
