1st EDITION OF THE WORLD BOOK DAY MINI SAGA COMPETITION
What is a Mini Saga?
Would you like to try your hand at some creative writing? As a fun way to celebrate World Book Day, the Faculty of Philology would like to invite you to enter our first mini saga competition.
A mini saga is a piece of writing which has exactly fifty words, not including the title. A mini saga has to tell a story and have a beginning, middle and end. It cannot just be a description of something.
The first mini sagas appeared in 1982 in The Sunday Telegraph, a British newspaper. The Sunday Telegraph announced the idea of the mini saga and held a competition for the best ones. Nowadays, there are frequent mini saga competitions all around the world and you can also a large number of websites devoted to them and this genre of ‘flash fiction’. Here, for instance you can find a blog where you can read some examples: https://temperedrunespress.