Another SLAM winner gets noticed..
Long overdue congratulations to Kathleen Armstrong, the winner of StorySLAM:Live 04. Kathleen was one of a group of creative writing students from Morley College who came along to measure their prowess. Cathy – tutor of the Short Story Writing course had replaced the weekly class with a trip to the Albany to give the students a chance to showcase their work to a wider audience.
They certainly gave the judges a hard decision to make. The standard of the entries was incredible. Everyone was saying how they didn’t envy their task one bit.
Finally, they picked Kathleen for her wonderful story “Dog”. Poignant and memorable – a whole world created in just under a thousand words – Kathleen held the audience spellbound with her beautiful delivery. Kathleen has attracted well deserved interest and is in demand to contribute to an Autumn edition of a well known magazine. Watch this space for further details and the video of Kathleen’s story.
Other videos to watch out for are Feyi for his brilliant Superman Returns. Feyi came along with his teacher from City of London Academy. At the other end of the scale we had Vi Newman and Beryl Donovan representing the older creative writer. Vi’s tale begins “on the morning of my 60th birthday I looked in the mirror and thought how I’d always wanted to be blonde and glamorous so I decided to take my birthday money and go off to Selfridges..” Find out what happens when you watch the video.
Finally, congrats to Louise Franklin for her special commendation from the judges. She “absolutely loved” taking part and has already booked her ticket for the July 17th event at the London Literature Festival, which reminds me, have you ?
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