The “Kirjoita kirjoittamisesta” writing competition (“Write about
writing”) results have been announced. The competition had two
categories, short stories and columns.

The short story category had a total of four winners: Kirjoituskilpailu
(“Writing competition”, a story about two neighbors who challenge each
other to a writing competition) by Mira Karppelin, Todellinen
kirjoittaminen (“True writing”, a futuristic tale of a world where the
writer and the writing equipment have merged) by Jaana Lehtiö, Luuranko
(“Skeleton”, a Poe-style pastiche about a writer) by Klaus Ollikainen,
and Niin oli kirjoitettu (“So it was written”, a short story about a
young man who, while writing an essay about a famous writer, starts
writing poetry to impress the opposite sex.) by Niko Peltonen.

The column category winner was Vesa A. Korhonen for his text, Kolumnin
kirjoittamisen sietämätön keveys (“The unbearable lightness of writing
a column”, a humoristic pondering on writing a good column).

While I think the idea for the competition was a good one, especially
the winner of the non-fiction category sounds a bit off-putting.
Columns about writing columns almost always tend to be irritating navel
gazing with no substance, and the awful, clichéd title doesn’t make
things any better. That said, since the text was deemed the best by the
judges, I have to admit I look forward to reading it and having my
preconceptions proved wrong!

The competition was organized by the Finnish Science Fiction Writers
Association and the Usva web zine. The judges were Kosmoskynä editor
Pasi Karppanen and Usva Editor Anne Leinonen. The winners were awarded
cash prizes of 50 euros, and the texts will be published in future
issues of Kosmoskynä and Usva.

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Posted By Tero to Partial Recall at 11/10/2009 11:38:00 AM