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Winners of the Llandeilo X-mas Book Fair 2016 Short Story Competition: Lorna Wright

02 Thursday Mar 2017

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Ahead of the #LlandeiloLitFest 2017 Short Story Competition (find details at the end of this post)  I’m delighted to publish some of the winning entries of the 2016 competitions here.

Here is a picture of three winners from the Christmas Book Fair Story competition December 2016: – Lorna Wright, Theo Dunham and Daisy Ayscough

“A Christmas Tale” by Lorna Wright  was voted first in the Youth Category.

Further winners were:
“A Christmas to Remember” by Theo Duncan
from Bro Dinefwr School won best Short story, with an Award Certificate and a Kindle Fire as prize.

Further winners were:
“Sheep for Reindeer” by Daisy Ayscough (Second in the Youth Category)
“War and Toys” by David Beach (First in the Senior Category)

For details of the 2017 competitions scroll down. Here is the winning story by Lorna:

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Winners of the X-mas Book Fair 2016: Theo Dunham

22 Wednesday Feb 2017

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Ahead of the #LlandeiloLitFest 2017 Short Story Competition (find details at the end of this post)  I’m delighted to publish some of the winning entries of the 2016 competitions here.

Here is a picture of three winners from the Christmas Book Fair Story competition December 2016: – Lorna Wright, Theo Dunham and Daisy Ayscough

“A Christmas to Remember” by Theo Duncan from Bro Dinefwr School won best Short story, with an Award Certificate and a Kindle Fire as prize.

Further winners were:
“Sheep for Reindeer” by Daisy Ayscough (Second in the Youth Category)
“A Christmas Tale” by Lorna Wright (First in the Youth Category)
“War and Toys” by David Beach (First in the Senior Category)

For details of the 2017 competitions scroll down. Here is the winning story by Theo:

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Winners of the Llandeilo X-mas Book Fair 2016 Short Story Competition: Daisy Ayscough

16 Thursday Feb 2017

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Book Fair, bookfair, books, Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, Carmarthenshire Event, hwyl, literature, literature festival, Literature set in Wales, litfest, llandeilo, Llandeilo Book Fair, Llandeilo Event, short story, Short Story Competition, South Wales, Wales, Welsh Books, Welsh Fiction, Welsh language, Welsh literature, Welsh writers

Ahead of the #LlandeiloLitFest 2017 Short Story Competition (find details at the end of this post)  I’m delighted to publish some of the winning entries of the 2016 competitions here.

Here is a picture of three winners from the Christmas Book Fair Story competition December 2016: – Lorna Wright, Theo Dunham and Daisy Ayscough

“Sheep for Reindeer” by Daisy Ayscough came second in the Youth Category

Further winners were:

“A Christmas to Remember” by Theo Duncan from Bro Dinefwr School won best Short story, with an Award Certificate and a Kindle Fire as prize.
“A Christmas Tale” by Lorna Wright (First in the Youth Category)
“War and Toys” by David Beach (First in the Senior Category)

For details of the 2017 competitions scroll down. Here is Daisy’s story:

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Winners of the Short Story Competition of the X-mas #LlandeiloBookFair 2016 #LlandeiloLitFest

09 Thursday Feb 2017

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Ahead of the #LlandeiloLitFest 2017 Short Story Competition (find details at the end of this post)  I’m delighted to publish some of the winning entries of the 2016 competitions here.

First prize in the senior group has been won by

War and Toys written by David Beach from Nantgaredig, Carmarthenshire. Here is his amazing story:11159986_887972984558060_7879834653252858585_n

War and toys

Adnan was staring blankly down at two objects in a toyshop. One was a small, poorly constructed cowboy, and the other was a miniature digger, made of plastic. Maya was forever building wonderful things; the digger would do. An automated store announcement cheerfully directed customers to the new range of dart pistols,

‘Blastastic fun! For indoors, for outdoors…’ it droned on. What if your indoors were your outdoors also? He thought dryly.

 

Already snow was falling as he left the shop, passing by the billboards baying their garish advertisements at the oncoming traffic. It was well into winter and the thick, tarred snow lay in great slugs along the road; a far cry from the Yuletide splendour that Finland promised to the tourists. They came in their droves with fanatic children all raring to see Santa slaving away to sell joy to the millions of people safely sleeping on Christmas eve.

 

It was a solemn and anxious evening as he said his farewells. Maria, his Finnish six year-old daughter, was always sad to see her father leave; her mother would now have to scare away the monster in her wardrobe. His wife, Amena, had a different sort of concern.

‘Be safe,’ she whispered on the threshold with such determination that a lump formed in his throat. He gathered his bags and took a taxi headed for the airport.

 

 

Two weeks later

Dust. Lots and lots of dust. If you put a little water or spit onto it, you can use your hands to make castles. Her father used to tell her off for wasting water but she liked playing in the dust, making castles where fair and just people lived. Her father called it an utopia. They stayed up even when the ground rumbled.

 

She had just built a castle when the ground started rumbling and the sky started thundering. Her brother came running, trampling her castle. She looked back in horror, the tears already welling in her eyes as he dragged her down the street. They dived into their neighbours’ cellar.

‘Your mother is safe, don’t cry. There’s no need to cry over bombs, you’re safe now,’ an elderly neighbour crooned, noticing the tears. But she wasn’t crying about the bombs, or the planes or the men who dropped them over Aleppo. She was crying about her castle. The castle that lay ruined, made by her hands and ruined.

 

Her castle had well and truly vanished, as had most of the street, when they appeared the next morning. A woman was wailing besides a body with a head squeezed like a tomato. Injured people walked, lay and died all about. Nowhere could a castle stand. And through the dust and dirt and danger appeared a figure hauling a large sack. A smile glowed on her face as she joined the other children running towards him.

‘Maya,’ Adnan beamed as she approached, ‘I have just the present for you.’

 

Dedicated to the ‘Syrian Santa’, risking his life to bring toys and hope of a better world to hundreds of Syrian children who, one day, will rebuild their Syria.

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The April Book Fair will again be holding a short story competition and a drawing competition. Details can be found below.

The Award Ceremony will be held on Saturday April 29th at 3pm at the Civic Hall.litfestschoolflier

Here is a picture of the winners from the Christmas Book Fair Story competition December 2016: – Lorna Wright, Theo Dunham and Daisy Ayscough

 

 

Welsh Wednesdays: Everything you need to know about the #Llandeilo X-Mas Book Fair, this Saturday Dec 10th

07 Wednesday Dec 2016

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13029662_1689809881271994_4234272720636115043_oThe Book Fair will start at 9:45am with music by the Llandeilo Town Band and the official opening by the Mayor.  You can find the Civic Hall on Crescent Road, next to the main town car park. 

There will be signs throughout town to gfc349-posteruide you.

The day will be filled with performances, readings and events for the entire family.

PROGRAMME:  

9:45 am: The Llandeilo Town Band will kickstart the day with festive music and the town Mayor will open the event officially.14509147_10153791704897327_2015750842_n

10:00 am: Book Fair opens with Hayley Addis: “The Goblin Circus” (children & adults) reworking fairy-tales

10:45 am: Will MacMillan Jones presents his ‘Enchanted Darkness,’ a performance for children and adults.9b2e4-welsh_cakes_and_custard

11:15 am: Wendy White, ‘Tir-nan-Og’ winner, reads from her children’s book ‘Welsh Cakes and Custard.’

11:45 am: Hugh W. Roberts reads “What If Summer Never Arrives” from his brand new book “Glimpses”

12:15 am: Colin R. Parsons reads his Christmas Story “Norman’s Christmas Spirit”

12:45 am: Short Story Competition Award Ceremony. images-23

1:00 p.m. Sharon Tregenza reads from her Middle Grade/Mystery Adventure “Shiver Stone”

1:00 p.m. Carol Lovekin reads from her magical novel ‘Ghostbird.’

8d87e-willow2bcoco2bsanta2bkindle2bsm2b1:30 pm: Rachel McGrath reads from her children’s book ‘Willow and Coco meet Santa.’

2:00 pm: Poetry Readings. (Open Mic) download-2

2:30pm:  Welsh Poem Recital Competition.

3:00 pm: Liz Riley-Jones reads from her Celtic fantasy novel ‘ Hiraeth a burden – baich’ and talks about the significance of the Welsh Language in it.81ae2-hiraeth-a-loss-front-cover-artwork

3:30 pm: Graham Watkin reads from his best-selling mythology collection ‘Welsh Legends and Myths.’ a4a17-welsh2bl2band2bm2bfront2bcover2bdraft2b2

4:00 pm: Kate Glanville reads from her novel ‘Stargazing.’

4:30 pm: Christoph Fischer reads from his Carmarthenshire-set murder mystery ‘The Body In The Snow.’

17:00: Book Fair closes with the announcement of Raffle Prize winners. Donations were received from many local businesses: Organica, Scorpio, Cuckoo’s Nest, Heavenly Chocolate, Deb’s Wool, Coffor Bach, Dragon’s Garden, In Stitches, Eve’s Toy Shop, The Little Welsh Dresser, Papillon, Crafts Alive.ea9a1-15181591_10153830343087132_6351907246076881168_n

Catering by THE HANGOUT at the YARD Llandeilo (traditional, healthy and vegetarian options)

 

Gift Wrapping in aid of the Air Ambulance all day long

 

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