by Lark Holden
Pen to Print’s flagship competition is The Book Challenge. Since 2014 Pen to Print through The Book Challenge competition have been supporting new writers in completing their first novels with free mentoring support from professional writers.
‘The events of the morning make me feel dizzy and lightheaded, as if after a morning’s exercise in the hot sun: a montage of disordered images in vibrant colours… flood my mind: cheering women waving placards with abandon, photographers with flashing cameras that blind you; a friend, cornered like an animal, … full of loathing; a bearded crow in black robes circling the high ceilings in Court Number Three; a pair of doors swinging shut; a female hunter in a canary-yellow jacket, … and a pair of legal lovebirds! And Bunchee Golding! … who must have melted a jury’s heart! … the one person in the world I’d most like to kill. The one person in the world who doesn’t know that by tea-time Thursday, she’s going to be dead.’
