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Think you’re funny? Prove it!
Falmouth’s newest theatre company, dumbFUNDED theatre, is running a comedy sketch-writing competition. Could this be your chance to make it big in comedy?
St Petroc’s Poetry Competition
St Petroc's Society is holding its first International Poetry Competition, on the themes of home, homelessness or sanctuary, with a top prize of £100.
Writers on Creative Falmouth
A new website dedicated to showcasing the wealth of creative talent living and working in Falmouth has just been launched and features a host of writing talent...
Screenwriter development competition
South West Screen’s new screenwriter development competition was officially launched today at the International Screenwriters’ Festival in Cheltenham.
Your chance to develop as a professional writer
There are many writing courses dedicated to particular genres but an MA in Professional Writing at University College Falmouth is unique in that it not only allows you to explore and develop your skills in...
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The Reading Group’s book choice for December: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
At the last meeting of The Reading Group we decided that our next title will be The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, a classic read for Christmas. We’ll be...
The Under-16 runner-up: Home, Corran Farm, St Ewe
by Rebecca Lobb Memories. Entrusted in every inch of ground surrounding the two-hundred-year-old, time-enchanted building I call home. Childhood dreams drilled into the valleys,...
The Under-16 winning entry: Falmouth Harbour
by Natalie Dyer The snow-white swans glide effortlessly over the rippling waters, on which sunbeams play like excited children. As I saunter along the harbour edge,...
The runner-up entry: Kit Hill
by Sallie Stephens My mother was apt to declare herself off to Penzance! but she never actually went. It wasn’t Penzance itself she yearned for, it was the...
The winning entry: On a Tuesday
by Crispin Williams Today I wore my “ORDINARY-HAT.” In my ORDINARY-HAT there were no alligators slithering out of the drains of Chapel Street and no menacing...
Myscape winners
Here are the winners of the Myscape writing competition. Click on the title of their story to read their entry or go to BBC Radio Cornwall's website, where you can hear the stories read out.
Think you’re funny? Prove it!
Falmouth’s newest theatre company, dumbFUNDED theatre, is running a comedy sketch-writing competition. Could this be your chance to make it big in comedy?
Writing for wireless radio
Writing for wireless radio: a brand new way for writers of drama and comedy to get their work heard
