By Dimitar Tsekov | Executive director
As it was mentioned in the previous report, the national judging happened on March 22 and the best 112 essay were reviewed by the national jury which consisted of leading professionals (including native speakers) who represent diverse professional spheres. The best three essays in each age category were selected as well as three additional essays were awarded special awards. All winning essays could be seen at:
http://www.creativewriting-bg.com/assets/2014-Essay-Collection2.pdf
The award ceremony was held in Blagoevgrad. The American university kindly offered to host it at its new campus. All awarded students and their teachers arrived to Blagoevgrad on April 26th and sessions on creative writing were offered to them. All the participants enjoyed the interesting presentation and the interaction with Prof. Michael Cohen who teaches creative writing classes at the AUBG. Mariela Hristova (chief editor of the AUBG magazine “Fly in the head”) shared her experience with creative writing. The interactive sessions gave the participants the opportunity to ask a lot of questions and to demonstrate their creative thinking.
After the sessions were completed a tour of the campus was given to the whole group.
The Award ceremony started with some opening remarks by Dimitar Tsekov – CORPluS Executive Director, followed by addresses by Richard Damstra – U.S. Embassy Cultural Attaché, Galya Nikolova – representative of the national competition jury, and Boryana Shalyavska – Director of Admissions at AUBG. During her speech Ms. Shalyavska announced the two special awards generously provided by the AUBG – a 3-month summer camp (Nadezhda Metodieva from Plovdiv) and a summer SAT course (Anita Katsarska from Varna). The students from the Broadway Performance Club at AUBG performed some dances from this year’s musical show “All Shook Up”.
All national winners and their teachers received certificates and books in English as well as prize packages provided by Express Publishing, KLETT, Macmillan and Microsoft Bulgaria. Iliana Bezinska from Blagoevgrad received a signed copy of the book “Cold Snap” and 100 USD donated by the book’s author – Cynthia Morrison Phoel. Another signed copy of the book went to the school with the largest number of national qualifiers – Plovdiv Language school. Pictures could be seen at: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.544873635631767.1073741849.290031201116013&type=1
All the students felt well appreciated and encouraged to continue writing stories and express their creative thoughts.
All the expenses for traveling, accommodation and meals were covered by the project’s budget.
We would like to thank all of our donors on Global Giving, whose contributions made it possible for us to expand BCWC to such a great scale, and to provide our young writers with the encouragement and recognition they deserve! Thank you!
This is the final report for the 4th Bulgarian Creative Writing competition.
By Dimitar Tsekov | Executive Director
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