The challenge of this year’s Alexander Cordell Literature Competition is to write a full story in just fifty words - a ‘Mini Saga’!

There are three categories:

• Children 11 years and under 
• Young people aged between 12 years and 18 years 
• Adults

All entrants are to write on the theme of ‘Community’ or ‘Unbelievable’- setting the story in south Wales over the last 200 years.

Entries are welcomed in English or Welsh and can be submitted electronically.

For further entry details and rules please visit - http://cordellcountry.org/en/competition|

Completed entries are to be sent to Kim Colebrook – kim@candoteam.wanadoo.co.uk no later than midnight on 30 September 2010.

The competition is dedicated to the author Alexander Cordell (1914-97), whose most famous book, Rape of the Fair Country (1957), was set in industrial Blaenavon.