Creative Midlands Events |
| Posted: 02 May 2013 03:00 AM PDT By Sian Buckley
The World Book Night Quiz saw a huge turnout of wittily-named teams, all eager to exercise their literary knowledge in a competitive spirit.
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Last week was a busy week for us; we celebrated World Book Night on Tuesday at 
It was close but the winning team, Fortune's Fools, walked away happy with a hamper full of goodies, and the Sesquipedalians (def. the use of long-winded words) won a bottle of wine for making me laugh out loud with their team name. There was a performance round in which students from Worcester University dramatically read lines from well-known novels, and the teams were required to figure out what they were. Thank you to The Hive team for providing the space and the lovely tea and cake!
The Short Fiction Competition turned out to be a beautiful intimate event where we enjoyed wine and readings of the winners' short stories. Each was presented with their award by the wonderful 
We were amazed to discover that Hilary McGrath, the first place winner, had drawn inspiration for her story, Kalashnikov for Shoes, from her friend Sumaya, who had travelled all the way from Kurdistan especially for the reception – not only that but she and runner up Ed Briggs had both travelled from France for the occasion! It was an honour to have them there and of course our more local winners; Ken Elkes and Garrie Fletcher. You can read the stories | You are subscribed to email updates from Creative Midlands Events To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
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