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: 2010 Short Story Competition
GBF NewsWe are pleased to announce a brand new writing competition for this year's Festival, in collaboration with the Surrey-based e-publishing company, Commutabooks.

Our competition is open to both new and established authors. We are looking for short stories that inspire and uplift readers to make the most of their days and their lives.

Commutabooks specialise in producing interactive eBooks for smartphones like the Apple iPhone, Google Nexus and the many eReaders such as the Amazon Kindle and the Apple iPad.

Commutabooks is the brainchild of local author and author's mentor Tom Evans who is also known as The Bookwright. They are designed to be read, listened to and watched in a single commute.

The prize is to convert the winning story into an "App" so it can be downloaded worldwide from the Apple iTunes store and read on the Apple iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. The App will also have a professionally recorded audio track so it can be listened to AND a video interview with the author. The prize also includes cover design, structural and copy editing and page design and layout.

As an example to inspire you, you can download one of Tom's self-penned narrated stories for the iPhone:

Get '100 Years of Ermintrude' FREE from the iTunes store here

The deadline for competition entries has now passed. Short-listed authors will be notified by 30th September 2010. For any queries, please email Tom Evans.




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: The 2008 Guildford Big Read is Well Under Way!
GBF News
Guildford Book Festival launched an exciting new initiative for this year – The Guildford Big Read. Festival organisers chose novels by the much loved Guildford-born author P. G. Wodehouse for the Big Read.
At the end of this year's Festival an evening celebrating the life and work of P.G.Wodehouse was held. Hosted by Jeff Thomson.
The capacity audience enjoyed readings from Jonathan Cecil, Lara Cazalet and Jeff Thomson. Tony Ring, the UK's foremost authority on all things Wodehouse, talked about the life and work of the endearingly popular writer. There were songs from Hal Cazalet and Eliza Lumley, accompanied by Stephen Higgins on the piano and a demonstration of Tango dancing by Flavio de Brito and the Tanguera Dance Company.
"We were really eager to run an event which everyone could join and the timing for the launch was just perfect - eighteen of Wodehouse’s titles have just been re-issued by Arrow Books this summer and 2008 is also the National Year of Reading" explained Glenis Pycraft, Festival Director, about The Big Read.



: Adult Workshops 2010
GBF News

Every year we have a varied programme of workshops which are very popular and sell out very quickly. We will advertise the 2010 Festival workshops here as soon as they are programmed – so please look out for them!




 


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