Wednesday, October 19, 2016 - 10:00
New DAAD / IMLR Writing competition Now Open!
This time, the task is to write a story. Two German-speaking authors, Ulrike Ulrich and Anja Tuckermann, have provided beginnings of stories of migration. Now it’s the competitors’ turn to take one of these beginnings and to continue spinning the yarn. There are only two rules: the ending must be no more than 250 words and must be written in German.
As in previous years, the competition is open to secondary school students, sixth-formers, undergraduates, postgraduates and anyone else who feels up to the challenge. Submissions must be entered online and the competition closes on 6 January 2017.
Prizes, including a writing workshop with one or both of the authors and books, will be awarded to winners and runners-ups in each group at a prize-giving event at Senate House on 1 March 2017. This will be a chance to listen to the winners’ as well as to the authors’ own story endings.
The competition is organised by the DAAD London, the IMLR, and the Goethe Institut, London. It is supported by the German and Swiss Embassies in London and sponsored by the magazine Deutsch Perfekt.