To celebrate the 100th anniversary of Reader’s Digest, we’re re-starting our much-loved 100-Word-Story Competition.
Please make sure that entries(参赛作品)are original, unpublished, and exactly 100 words—not a single word shorter or longer! Don’t forget to include your full name, address, email and phone number when filling in the form. We may use entries in all print and electronic media.
There are three categories:
In the adult category, the winner will receive $1, 000 and a Serious Readers High Definition Floor or Table Light(value up to $400)and the ones who finish second will receive $280.
In the 12-18s category, the winner will receive a $200 book voucher(券)or an 8GB Kindle Paperwhite, and the runner-up will receive a f 100 book voucher.
In the under 12 category, the winner will receive f 100 of book vouchers or an 8 GB Kindle Paperwhite, and the runner-up will receive a f50 book voucher.
Please submit your stories online by 5pm on 1st May 2022, or send an entry via post addressed to: Reader’s Digest
100-Word-Story Competition Warners Group Publications West Street Bourne PE10 9PH
The editorial team will pick a shortlist of entries by 31st May 2022, and the three best stories in each category will be posted online on 1st June 2022.
You can vote for your favorite, and the one with the most votes wins the top prize. Voting will close at 5pm on 30th June 2022 and the winning entries will be published in our September issue.
1. What do we know about the 100-Word-Story Competition?| A．Only students over 12 can enter it. | B．It will pick out 6 best entries. |
| C．Each entry is 100 words or fewer. | D．It has been held before. |
| A．$200. | B．$280. |
| C．$400. | D．$1, 000. |
| A．On 1st May 2022. | B．On 31st May 2022. |
| C．On 1st June 2022. | D．On 30th June 2022. |
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【推荐1】The most popular bus tour in London is a hop-on, hop-off tour. This means that the buses are continually driving around predefined (预先确定的) routes and visitors can use their tickets to jump on at any stop and get off at whichever stop they choose. Tickets are usually valid (有效的) for 1-2 days for the operating hours of the company you have bought your ticket from.
One of the best hop-on hop-off tours in London is Golden Tours! Golden Tours is London's leading sightseeing company. Since 1984, it has been offering a wide range of daily tours covering England's most well-known attractions.
Hop-on Hop-off Ticket Price:
Adult: ￡26
Child: ￡12 ( provides for children aged 5-12 )
Family: ￡64 ( provides for two adults and two children )
Ticket Duration: 24 or 48 hours (in winter)
Times:
Blue Route: 8:16 am-5:00 pm
Red Route: 8:16 am-5:30pm
Green Route:8:16 am-5:00pm
Purple Route:8:16 am-4:15 pm
Buses run every 10-20 minutes.
Where to Purchase Tickets
Online or at departure points Green Park, Trafalgar Square,Buckingham Palace.
Commentary (现场解说) Languages and Type:
Live commentary in English.Recorded commentary in German, French, Spanish,
Italian, Japanese, Russian and Brazilian Portuguese.
Routes:
Blue Route: Standard Route plus Belgravia and Kensington — Tower of London, St. Paul's Cathedral, Buckingham Palace, Harrods, V&A Museum, etc.
Red Route: Standard Route plus the Docklands
Green Route: Standard Route
Purple Route: Standard Route plus Soho and Bloomsbury
Route Durations: 1-3 hours
1. If you want to visit Buckingham Palace, you should choose .| A．Blue Route | B．Red Route |
| C．Green Route | D．Purple Route |
| A．You can hear live commentary in French. |
| B．You can take the bus to wherever you want. |
| C．You don't need to wait any time for the bus. |
| D．You have to finish your tour before 4:15 pm. |
| A．￡48. | B．￡52. |
| C．￡64. | D．￡76. |
【推荐2】2020 SAN FRANCISCO
WRITERS CONFERENCE
17th Celebration of Craft, Commerce & Community
February 13-16, 2020 at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco
Speakers: *Walter Mosley*Jonathan Maberry *Brooke Warner
Plus authors, editors, publishers & literary agents from New York, L.A. & S.F. Bay Area
Visit www.SFWriters.org to get event/contest/scholarship details, access online registration for the free SFWC Newsletter.
Considerable Early Discounts and Special Room Rates!
2019 SAN FRANCISCO
WRITING FOR CHANGE
A one-day conference for all writers who want to change the world through their writing.
September 14th at the Unitarian Center Details and registration:
www.SFWritingforChange.org
SFWC/San Francisco Writers Foundation is a nonprofit organization
Behind the Scenes of a Writing Conference
When you attend a writing conference, you see a facade that took months or longer to make up. Plenty is going on behind the scenes. Let’s take a look behind the curtain.
The day starts long before attendees walk through the door. Registration is set up, signs posted and tables arranged. Logistics ( 后 勤 ) all fall on the conference organizers. For example, the annual conference I direct in San Francisco (see the poster above) is a simple one-day conference that takes more than eight months to put together and around 15 staff and volunteers to manage. Larger multi-day conferences have even more going on behind the scenes.
Overseeing it all is the conference director, a conductor who typically works with committee directors to make sure everything runs smoothly. Over the course of the conference, staffers make sure everything stays on track. It’s not unusual for staff to walk miles in a day and go without meals.
Conference staff and volunteers are always behind the curtains making sure your experience is perfect. The next time you attend a well-run writing conference, take a moment to thank staff and volunteers for their devotion. They deserve all the praise they can get because without them, there would be no conference.
1. The underlined word facade refers to ___.| A．the effort behind the scenes |
| B．the scenes visible to the public |
| C．the literary masterpiece on display |
| D．the material distributed at the meeting |
| A．July, 2019. | B．March, 209. |
| C．September, 2019 . | D．January, 2019. |
| A．three speakers | B．authors and editors |
| C．staff and volunteers | D．corporate sponsors |
【推荐3】Short Story Contest
Want to see your story published in Writers’ Forum?
Three great prizes for every issue: 1st £ 300 2nd £150 3rd £100
All types of story are welcome, be it crime, comedy, romance, thriller, literary, horror, or science fiction.
• Stories must be between 1,000 and 3,000 words.
• Entry fee is £ 6 or just £ 3 for subscribers.
• If your story is placed you will be notified and we will ask you to send a photo of yourself and a brief biography via email.
Optimal feedback for just £ 5.
Our judge Lorraine Mace can provide a page of personalized critique to help you improve your writing. The fee is just £ 5. You will receive feedback by email if you enter online or please include a stamped addressed envelope if you are entering by post.
To enter online.
Entering online is the easiest and greenest option. Please choose one of the following links to be taken to the secure website to pay by card:
• Subscriber entry(£ 3)
• Subscriber entry with critique (£ 8)
• Non-subscriber entry (£ 6)
• Non-subscriber entry with critique (£ 11)
To enter, send an email with your story attached as a Word-compatible file C. doc or .docx or .rtf). At the start give your name, address, phone number, email address, story title and word count. The address to send your entry to is: storycomp@writers- forum.com. Your entry will be forwarded to the judges as soon as all fees have been paid and your subscriber status has been confirmed. To subscribe now, please click here.
Free workshop!
Each month Lorraine Mace selects illustrative examples to use in her workshop to show readers how to improve their writing. If you would like your story to be considered, please state this clearly in your email entry.
Rolling competition.
This is a rolling competition which means that entries received after one issue’s cutoff point are simply placed in the next contest.
1. How many words are required for writers’ Forum Short Story Contest?| A．Exactly 800 words. | B．No more than 1,000 words. |
| C．No fewer than 3,000 words. | D．From 1,000 to 3,000 words. |
| A．£3 | B．£6 | C．£8 | D．£ 11 |
| A．You can send your entry in a format of Excel. |
| B．Entries arriving too late for one issue go into the next. |
| C．You are supposed to submit your stories to the judges directly |
| D．Lorraine Mace will choose stories randomly as illustrative examples. |
【推荐1】Johannes Gutenberg
Johannes Gutenberg, born around the year 1400 in Germany, is widely regarded as the inventor of the modern printing press. Before about 1450, most books were write nor copied by hand. This made them extremely time-consuming to produce and expensive to buy. But in 1455 Gutenberg developed a machine which could print multiple copies of the same book. Gutenberg did not achieve financial success as a result of his breakthrough, but his invention helped to spread knowledge across Europe and was a major factor in the Renaissance.
Louis Braille
Born France in 1809, Louis Braille became blind at the age of three after an accident in his father’s workshop. When he was ten, he earned a place at a special school for blind children in Paris. In 1821, Charles Barbiera, a former soldier, visited the school and talked about a code that he’d invented which allowed soldiers to share information on the battlefield without speaking. Impressed by this idea, Louis worked on his own code to help the blind read. The code that Louis invented has become standard throughout the world.
Samuel Morse
Samuel Morse, born in 1791 in Massachusetts, USA, started his career not as an inventor but as an art is. He had great artistic talent and soon became well-known for his portraits, but he also had a passion for new technology. In 1832, while travelling home by sea from Europe, he overheard a conversation about electromagnetism, and this gave him the idea for a new form of communication-the electric telegraph. Although other inventors had developed similar machine, Morse’s worked better and he applied for and got the patent in 1837.
Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell, a pioneer in the field of telecommunications, was born in 1847 in Edinburgh. Scotland. Perhaps because of his mother’s hearing problems, Bell had a particular interest in the education of deaf people. This led him to invent the microphone. Bell was not the only inventor working in this field, but his lawyer managed to secure the all-important patent which gave Bell ownership of the idea.
1. ________ had another career before starting to invent.| A．Johannes Gutenberg | B．Samuel Morse |
| C．Louis Braille | D．Alexander Graham Bell |
| A．The deaf people led him to invent the microphone. |
| B．He is the only pioneer in the field of telecommunications. |
| C．Alexander Graham Bell suffer cd a terrible injury at a young age. |
| D．His lawyer helped him to get the ownership. |
| A．All of them had several failures before their success. |
| B．All of them had a miserable life at the beginning. |
| C．All of the marc pioneers in their own areas. |
| D．All of them made a big fortune in life. |
【推荐2】Theater is a big part of what makes New York shine. This city is full of talent that even the youngest can appreciate, and at the best Broadway shows, everyone in your crew will be interested.
The Lion King
There’s a reason Simba’s story continues to draw in crowds year after year: It’s an amazing production with amazing sets and a moving score. Seeing The Lion King live is something like a ceremony for New York kids. Unconvinced? Ask the 100 million+audience members worldwide who’ve seen the performance.
Ages 8 and up.
Six
On a concert stage, backed by an all-female band, the six wives of Tudor Dynasty Henry VIII air their complaints in the form of modern pop. The queens sing their heads off, and the audience loses its mind. Some of the stories are pretty dark, but the girl-power dance moves will make older kids excited.
Ages 10 and up.
Wicked
Based on novelist Gregory Maguire’s 1995 adult variation on L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Wicked shows what happened before the events in the children’s book. The musical addresses complex themes, such as standards of beauty and morality. While children five and up are permitted in the theater, little ones might be afraid of the flying monkeys.
Ages 8 and up.
Come from Away
One of the more unlikely musicals on Broadway is an excellent choice for the family: Come from Away is the tense but humane story of an airport in Gander, Newfoundland, where 38 planes and more than 6,000 passengers were forced to land on September 11,2001. It raises big topics, but in such a way that invites thoughtful discussion.
Ages 10 and up
1. Which musical combines royal history with modern art form?| A．The Lion King. | B．Wicked. | C．Six. | D．Come from Away. |
| A．It features female dancers and singers. | B．It leaves much room for deep thinking. |
| C．It includes standards of beauty and morality. | D．It stresses harmony between human and nature. |
| A．Musicians. | B．Archaeologists. | C．Astronauts. | D．Theater majors. |
【推荐3】The Best Seaside Campsites
Nicolas
This region is a perfect example of ancient Greece, a fancy mix of ruins, myths and classic tales. Nicolas campsite is close to the town of Tiryns, which hosts an annual classic Greek theatre festival. So you might be sharing the site with actors practicing their lines. The camp is just a stone's throw from the waters of the bay.
Glavotok
It is right by the water's edge and offers great diving and local seafood specialities. When the campsite lights go off at 11pm, all that's left is the sound of lapping water. Glavotok gets busy in high season with hosts of regular visitors, so booking ahead is essential.
Zakynthos
Zakynthos, once known as the Venice of the east, is one of the most breathtaking islands in the Ionian Sea and has one of the most dramatic campsites. The clifftop areas of Zakynthos give you clear views across the sea.
Cala Llevado
You get five beaches for the price of one at this site on the Costa Brava coastline. There's everything from a comfortable little pirate cove to a sweeping bay. The site is enormous but some of the areas are so far from it that it's like camping wild. Others are on top of one of the beaches, giving you a bird's eye view.
1. What might a visitor do in Nicolas?| A．Skip stones. |
| B．Host a theatre festival. |
| C．Explore ancient Greece. |
| D．Practice lines with actors. |
| A．Nicolas. |
| B．Glavotok. |
| C．Zakynthos. |
| D．Cala Llevado. |
| A．A calm bay. |
| B．Bird watching. |
| C．Camping in the wild. |
| D．Good value for the money. |
