Watch the August 2016 Winning Novel Reading.

The Dragon of Time: Gods and Dragons by Aaron Dennis

Novel reading performed by actor Geoff Mays.

Get to know the novelist: 

1. What is your novel about?

Scar is an amnesiac, seeking only his origins, yet in the midst of the
religious wars broiling over the world of Tiamhaal, Zoltek, an evil king,
enlists the warrior’s services. After botching a mission, Zoltek makes an
attempt on Scar’s life, but the hero flees into the desert night,
whereupon he meets a knight, claiming that the Gods worshipped today are
actually the Dragons of ages past. After scuffling with the stranger, Scar
meets an enemy captain, who reveals that his king, Gilgamesh, knows of
Scar’s origins, that he is the rightful heir to the ancient kingdom of
Alduheim, where the Dragons were defeated ages ago.

2. Why should this novel be read by people?

Watch the August 2016 Winning Novel Reading.

OBITER DICTA by Lucian M

Novel Performed by actor Julian Ford

Get to know the novelist: 

1. What is your novel about?

A murder leaves a body on display at a Vancouver, Canada public space quickly followed by the assassination of the prime minister of British Columbia that leaves a public in shock. VPD Homicide investigate a trail that leads to various groups vying to grip the political future of British Columbia in their hands. Some seek to do so by democratic means while others pursue the route of armed force. Most disturbing are the groups that seek to establish a government ruled by the Judeo-Christian Ten Commandments that will then act as a springboard to the establishment of a global confederacy of Judeo-Christian states committed to a policy of maintaining their vision of the status quo until the advent of the Apocalypse.

2…

Watch the August 2016 Winning Short Story Reading. 

Reading Performed by actor Geoff Mays

The Storm  by Buffy Sammons

Get to know the winning writer:

1. What is your 1pg Short Story about?

Really life as I see it and why I feel my family’s and now my own devise are somehow a form of divine intervention and has distanced me from getting to close to others anymore.

2. What genres would you say this short story is in?
I would say It’s definitely a twist on prose with a science fiction/ autobiography possibility

3. How would you describe this story in two words?

Beautiful storm

4. What movie have you seen the most in your life?

Older movies, comedies, action adventure, and some Science fiction…

5. How long have you been working on this story?

I just wrote it in the middle of the night one night and after reading it to…

Watch the August 2016 Winning Short Story Reading. 

Reading Performed by actor Julian Ford

Thoughts of a Soldier  by Cornelia Fick

Get to know the winning writer:

1. What is your 1pg Short Story about?

‘Thoughts of a soldier’ is about a fictitious war during the struggle to overthrow apartheid.

2. What genres would you say this short story is in?
This is a literary story, experimenting with punctuation.

3. How would you describe this story in two words?

Poignant, intriguing

4. What movie have you seen the most in your life?

I’ve seen ‘Gone with the wind’ a number of times.

5. How long have you been working on this story?

I wrote this story long ago and kept returning to it to refine it. Finally, I worked on it during my MA Creative Writing degree at Rhodes University and perfected it (I hope).

6. Do you have an all-time favorite novel?

Watch the August 2016 Winning Short Story Reading. 

Reading Performed by actor Julian Ford

Get to know the winning writer: 

1. What is your 1pg Short Story about?

Colored ties is a story about a youngster and his crew who came from nothing and acquired lots of money.
Once they made money enough to invest in themselves, they bought other businesses to keep money coming in.

The story culminates with a high huge loss of money and a last minute scrounge to keep money coming in so the families can eat and not lose everything they worked so hard for.

The goal of the script is to teach people the value of money and the love of family.

People should know the heart break of losing what they cling to, the pleasure of a new start, and the victory of success at least once in life.

Whether or not people are able to…

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Reading Performed by actor Geoff Mays

STANDING OVATION by Lionel Walfish

Get to know the winning writer:

1. What is your 1pg Short Story about?

Living life through a living fantasy.

2. What genres would you say this short story is in?
Realty/fantasy

3. How would you describe this story in two words?

Two Lives

4. What movie have you seen the most in your life?

Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Strangers on a Train.’

5. How long have you been working on this story?

Four hours

6. Do you have an all-time favorite novel?

YOU CAN’T GO HOME AGAIN (Thomas Wolfe)

7. What motivated you to write this story?

This story is fashioned after an old acquaintance .

8. What artist would you love to have dinner with?

Rembrandt (if he were still alive)

9. Apart from writing, what else are you passionate about?

Theatre and music

Watch the August 2016 Winning Short Story Reading. 

Reading Performed by actor Geoff Mays

Along My Journey  by Renee Michelle Christian

Get to know the winning writer:

1. What is your 1pg Short Story about?

A True Life Experience.

2. What genres would you say this short story is in?

Biography/autobiography/essay/journalism

3. How would you describe this story in two words?

Surreal

4. What movie have you seen the most in your life?

I’ve watched No Escape 5 times in the last month.

5. How long have you been working on this story?

5 Years

6. Do you have an all-time favorite novel?

The Celestine Prophecy

7. What motivated you to write this story?

A Catharsis

8. What artist would you love to have dinner with?

Tom Hanks or Tyler Perry

9. Apart from writing, what else are you passionate about?

Music/Animals/Nature

10. What influenced you to enter the 1pg. Short Story contest?

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Reading Performed by actor Becky Shrimpton

DAY OF WHY by Stephen Karnaghan

Get to know the winning writer:

1. What is your 1pg Short Story about?

Weekends for a lot of people are lonely. They may not speak to anyone for two days. So what happens when someone speaks to a lonely person?

2. What genres would you say this short story is in?

Social.

3. How would you describe this story in two words?

Personality change

4. What movie have you seen the most in your life?

The film that I watch often is Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance with a score by Philip Glass.

5. How long have you been working on this story?

I had written this story several years ago and was not happy with it. When I became interested in only expressing the theme I was able to get rid…

Watch the August 2016 Winning Short Story Reading. 

Reading Performed by actor Becky Shrimpton

ALL LIVES MATTER! by Ruth Andrews Garnes

Get to know the winning writer:

1. What is your 1pg Short Story about?

This piece is about the times we are living in and the senseless loss of lives. There’ve been lost of cops and citizens lives. This piece was a part of a piece I wrote called “Dr. King’s Dream” I added to it after the killings in Dallas but the original piece remains as was written in my poetry collection called “The Cry of our Children.”

2. What genres would you say this short story is in?

I would say this piece was written as a tragic historical event.

3. How would you describe this story in two words?

Heart felt.

4. What movie have you seen the most in your life?

Pretty Woman.

5. How long have you…