Category: Competitions
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Lockdown Short Story Runner Up
This story is read by Rachel Ward, a local author of young adult and adult crime novels. Rachel is also co-host of the B&NES Libraries crime book group, The Bath Bloodhounds. Mary was old, she knew this because she was born in 1931, because the mirror told her and her bad legs confirmed it. She…
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Lockdown Short Story First Prize Winner
This story is read Bel Mooney, a local writer of adult and children’s books, journalist and broadcaster. She’s never been one for the crowded places. The town squares with their fountains and their tourists, the pedestrianised areas thronging with shoppers, the pubs full of drinkers spilling onto the streets. No. She likes the quiet. And the wild…
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Lockdown Competition
From the 17th of April to the 18th of May 2020, during the height of lockdown, B&NES Libraries ran two creative, online competitions. Working in partnership with Bath Spa University and Mr B’s Emporium of Reading Delights, we asked adult members of LibrariesWest to submit poems or short stories based on the theme of ‘Lockdown’.…
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Design a Future Library Competition
This competition is now closed, but we will be launching another soon! This year B&NES is celebrating one hundred years of public libraries in Bath, but what will libraries of the future look like? In the next one hundred years how will libraries change and develop? We want you to use your design and imagination…