At One Million Stories we do many things to support the short story form, to promote new writing and challenge creative writers. This competition is now closed. The OMSCWP has cancelled the competition and will refund entry fees to entrants. Please address any correspondence to the editors. The Editor's decision is final. No correspondence will be entered into. Winners will be notified by email by March 14th 2012. Prizes will be posted anywhere in the world to a valid address supplied by the winners upon request. All entries to the competition will be subject to the usual terms and conditions as specified here. The winning entry(s) will be published on the site as appropriate. This competition has the approval of Jeanette Winterson, however, this competition is not sponsored or approved by Penguin Books or Hamish Hamilton. Members of the OMSCWP team may not enter this competition under their own or any pseudonym. The OMSCWP reserves the right to cancel the competition at any time-entry fees will be refunded. A full list of winners can be made available upon request etc... © www.millionstories.net All Rights Reserved www.millionstories.net |
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readership. We want writers to be happy here. (Awww) The Project is run by
writers and very voracious readers excited by the potential for creativity that the
form begets. And you might even see one or two of ours on here from time to time
too. Although OMSCWP volunteers & associates may not enter this competition.
Creative Writing Project are set out on our main Submit Your Story page. They
are there so we can make sure that everyone understands that the Project is set
up as a safe place for authors to present their work in order to reach a wider
readership. We want writers to be happy here. (Awww) The Project is run by
writers and very voracious readers excited by the potential for creativity that the
form begets. And you might even see one or two of ours on here from time to time
too. Although OMSCWP volunteers & associates may not enter this competition.
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"I heard Stephen Hawking on the
radio talking about how humans
must colonise space to have any
chance of survival, and I thought
what a depressing prognosis of
our condition that is. Maybe it’s
a boy-thing, this infatuation with
rocket ships and rocky worlds. I
would prefer to stay here and
honour the earth.
And so I started to tell myself a
story, which is how my books
always begin, and the story was
of a new world, and what we
would do with it if we found
one…
People say to me, ‘so is the Stone
Gods science fiction?’ Well, it is
fiction, and it has science in it,
and it is set (mostly) in the
future, but the labels are
meaningless.
I can’t see the point of labelling a
book like a pre-packed
supermarket meal. There are
books worth reading and books
not worth reading. That’s all.
The Stone Gods is written in four
parts; The first part begins on
Orbus, a world very like earth,
and like earth running out of
resources and suffering from the
severe effects of climate change.
This is a world where everyone is
bio-enhanced and bored to
death. It is a world that has run
out of possibilities.
Then, a new planet is discovered,
perfect for human life. This
planet, Planet Blue, has only one
drawback – the dinosaurs. A
mission leaves Orbus to get rid of
the dinosaurs."
Jeanette Winterson
radio talking about how humans
must colonise space to have any
chance of survival, and I thought
what a depressing prognosis of
our condition that is. Maybe it’s
a boy-thing, this infatuation with
rocket ships and rocky worlds. I
would prefer to stay here and
honour the earth.
And so I started to tell myself a
story, which is how my books
always begin, and the story was
of a new world, and what we
would do with it if we found
one…
People say to me, ‘so is the Stone
Gods science fiction?’ Well, it is
fiction, and it has science in it,
and it is set (mostly) in the
future, but the labels are
meaningless.
I can’t see the point of labelling a
book like a pre-packed
supermarket meal. There are
books worth reading and books
not worth reading. That’s all.
The Stone Gods is written in four
parts; The first part begins on
Orbus, a world very like earth,
and like earth running out of
resources and suffering from the
severe effects of climate change.
This is a world where everyone is
bio-enhanced and bored to
death. It is a world that has run
out of possibilities.
Then, a new planet is discovered,
perfect for human life. This
planet, Planet Blue, has only one
drawback – the dinosaurs. A
mission leaves Orbus to get rid of
the dinosaurs."
Jeanette Winterson
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