The five top stories will be published in a booklet and feature on honorary graduate Adele’s website. Overall winner is Victoria Brown, MA Creative Writing 2012. Adele said: ‘I liked the humour, tension, character development. It’s a clean script, definitely the strongest. Congratulations Victoria.’ Runner-up is Dr Martin Leyland a postgraduate student adviser at the [...]
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Eminent Assamese writer Surendra Nath Medhi, better know by his pen name Saurav Kumar Chaliha, breathed his last on Saturday at a private hospital in the city after a prolonged illness. The 81-year-old author, who won the prestigious Sahitya Akademi Award, had written several critical pieces on Assamese literature. Considered by many to be the [...]
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Film scripts are written to be produced as drama rather than read as literature. Finished screenplays are a blueprint – a starting point in the production process rather than an end point in their own right. Screenwriting is very technical and does not come naturally to anybody – it is a skill and craft that [...]
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Our contest is simple but competative, and takes place quarterly. Winners and runners-up will be published once a year in our literary anthology, Colonnade. Here’s the deal: This year, 2011, the Colonnade Writing Contest invites fiction authors from any genre to submit their best previously unpublished work to compete for a place in our yearly anthology, Colonnade. [...]
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Received a question the other day about the necessity of obtaining permission if you refer to a particular product in your novel or short story and for most of us the answer is a simple No. Let’s take a look at a particular event. Jack is driving down the road in his new Ferrari when [...]
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