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The website for cricket writing
cricketwrite.com
is the cricket website devoted to writing on the game. We are
always looking for contributions from you on
the world of cricket. Your challenge is to be creative on the
page.
We welcome your pictures too. Right: New England captain
Andrew Strauss, who scored a magnificent 169 at the hastily
arranged match at the Antigua Recreation Ground in the West
Indies.
Here's what we are looking for at cricketwrite.com
We welcome contributions from cricket fans across the world. Your stories should be approximately 500 words. We'll publish them free of charge. The subject is your choice but cricket has to be a central theme. Our mission is to celebrate the game and the writing surrounding it. Email your cricketing story to editor@cricketwrite.com
Your challenge
Cricket and the art of creative writing
It was the author Malcolm Bradbury who used cricket as an example during one of his many courses in creative writing at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, writes Peter Steward.
Bradbury was trying to illustrate the difference between “dry writing” and writing that leapt off the page. He illustrated this with the use of pages from a cricket scoring book.
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