Glasgow Remembered Food and Nostalgia Writing Competition
Is your diet different to your Granny’s? Do you remember your school dinners? How has the Glasgow diet changed? How has immigration affected your diet?
Submit an entry on your reflections of Glasgow, food and nostalgia and you could win a great prize!
Individual entries may highlight, for example, the roles of family recipes, favourite childhood advertisements and recent fusion cuisines - e.g. Scottish-Indian on contemporary eating practices, branding and consumer patterns. There will be an emphasis on intergenerational communication, with younger entrants encouraged to draw on memories of parents and grandparents.
Entries may be up to 1000 words and can include illustrations. Winners will be announced on Saturday 13th March 2010, 11.30am at the Aye Write! Book Festival, The Mitchell, Glasgow.
Entries will be judged in three age categories:
- 5-11 years
- 12-17 years
- adults
Short-listed entries will be exhibited at the Aye Write! Glasgow's Book Festival event on Saturday 13th March 2010. Prizes will be presented by award-winning writers, David Kinloch and Rodge Glass and winning pieces will be considered for publication in The Evening Times.
The event will also feature question and answer sessions with authors, a family food quiz and traditional Scottish food.
Closing date for entries is the 26 February 2010.
Prize Information:
5-11 year olds: Book tokens
12-17 year olds: Sony e-book reader
Adults: A meal for 4 at Cafe Gandolphi
Entry Information:
Please email entries to nostalgia-seminars@strath.ac.uk
Any questions, please contact the organisers at:
nostalgia-seminars@strath.ac.uk
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