Introducing the revamped Spectator Book Club
Peter Hoskin 1:14pm
Just to flag-up the The Spectator's revamped, online Book Club - which you can access here. Plenty of stuff there that bibliophilic CoffeeHousers may find interesting - including Book of the Month recommendations (this month: Jonathan Littell's The Kindly Ones); a massive, well-sorted review archive; and a discussion board. Would be great to see some of you over there.
To mark the launch, The Spectator's holding a short story competition. There are full details in the latest issue of the mag - but, in case any of you want to enter, I reproduce the terms here:
To celebrate the launch of the Spectator Book Club, The Spectator is giving you the chance to have a short story published in the magazine.To enter, write a short story of 2,000 words or under, on the subject of invisibility, and email it as an attachment to
shortstory@spectator.co.uk or post it to:
Short Story Competition,
The Spectator,
22 Old Queen Street,
London, SW1H 9HP
The winning entry will be published in a future issue of The Spectator, and ten runners-up will have their short stories published on the Spectator website. The entries will be judged by a panel of Spectator staff, along with a representative of Barclays Wealth.
Deadline for entry is 25 June 2009.
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razvan
August 2nd, 2009 11:48am Report this commentHeya!Does anyone know anything about the short story competition on invisibility?
Louise Reed
September 3rd, 2009 5:25pm Report this commentNo, I was wondering what had happened about it. The Spectator website has nothing to say about it. Did we imagine a competition?
Paul Hughes
September 7th, 2009 1:01pm Report this commentI don't expect to win but I am truly fed up with waiting for the coup de grace....
Paul Hughes
September 12th, 2009 2:20pm Report this commentMy word! I suspect that there were plenty of entries and the team destined to judge them have been overwhelmed. Have you decided to let the whole thing die away? Did we scribble in vain? It doesn't bother me but you might at least have the good manners to say so. The writers in coffee house often talk of Brown's dithering. Please have the manners, which Brown lacks, to confess to your own shortcomings.
Simple question, perhaps you'd like to provide an answer: when will the winner be announced? If never, why?
Paul Hughes
September 14th, 2009 12:02pm Report this comment"There will be a zero per-cent increase in the number of responses provided by The Spectator's Book Club Staff. The opposition, the New Statesman's Book Club Staff, would cut such responses by ten per-cent. Ten per-cent!"
Julia Bohanna
September 25th, 2009 4:41pm Report this commentI would think that the shortlisted writers would have been informed by now, so that permissions have been gained etc. Otherwise there is always a danger of the writers taking their stories off to another competition. I am looking forward to reading the winner(s) - it was an interesting theme.....
Aric Wizman
November 4th, 2009 1:44am Report this commentWas a short story on invisibility ever finally published in October, as some said it would?
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