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Write a winning story!

You could win ₤1,000 in this year’s Fiction Prize and have your story printed in Keep Writing magazine. Ten other lucky people will win a cheque for ₤100.

Once again, we need people who can write good stories. The judges, including Mary Little John, the novelist, Michael Brown, the television reporter, and Susan Hitchins, the editor of Keep Writing, are looking for interesting and original stories. You can write down about whatever you want but here’s some advice to start your thinking:

Write about what you know

Love, family, problems with friends — these were the main subjects of the stories. However, you need to turn ordinary situations into something interesting that people will want to read about. Make the reader want to continue reading by writing about ordinary things in a new and surprising way.

Get your facts right

It’s no good giving a description of a town or explaining how a jet engine works if you get it wrong. So avoid writing anything unless you’re certain about it.

Hold the reader’s attention

Make the beginning interesting and the ending a surprise. There is nothing worse than a poor ending. Develop the story carefully and try to think of something unusual happening at the end.

Think about the characters

Try to bring the people in your story alive for the reader by using well-chosen words to make them seem real.

Your story must be your own work, between 2,000 and 2,5000 words and typed. Even if you’re in danger of missing the closing date, we are unable to accept stories by fax or email. You must include the application form with your story.

You should not have had any fiction printed in any magazine or book in this country — a change in the rules by popular request — and the story must not have happened in print or in recorded form, for example on radio or TV, anywhere in the world.

Your fee of ₤5 will go to the Writers’ Association. Make your cheque payable to Keep Writing and send it with the application form and your story to:

Keep Writing

75 Broad Street Birmingham

B12 4TG

The closing date is 30 May and we will inform the winner within one month of this date. Please note that if you win, you must agree to have your story printed in our magazine.

21. What does Michael Brown do?

A. A football judge.                    B. A novelist.  

C. A television reporter.               D. An editor.

22. How should writers deal with ordinary situations while writing?

A. They should make them appealing to readers.

B. They should change some facts to make them interesting.

C. They should write special and new things.               

D. They should make up a surprising beginning and an interesting ending.

23. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A. Late stories can be faxed if necessary.                            

B. Entry needs no fee.

C. Winners can have their stories printed in other magazines.  

D. The list of winners will be released before the end of June.

24. What is the purpose of this passage?

A. To introduce Keep Writing magazines.

B. To attract people to take part in the Fiction Prize.

C. To raise money for story lovers.

D. To give some advice for writing good stories.

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