Adventures beyond the stars…
Beyond the Stars launched a few weeks ago at Tauranga Intermediate School library. A Tauranga Writers initiative to encourage young writers, the project invites intermediate school students to enter a competition to write a short, in this case, speculative fiction story. The winners and a selection of editor-picked stories then get published into an anthology, giving these new writers a taste of being published.
The Beyond this… project has been running for a while, but this year Chad Dick and I volunteered to be the editors. This was a long and involved process. Chad, with a head for excel spreadsheets and unafraid of details, was amazing. He’d been through the experience with a previous anthology for high school students and was an editing force to be reckoned with!
With over 350 en
tries, reading the stories with a small team, giving feedback on each one, deciding winners and those going into the anthology, communication with every writer to make sure we had details correct and they’d accepted our edits, finalising and proofing the final copy and getting it printed. It was a mammoth task.
So a few weeks ago when we had our launch it was amazin
g to see the happy faces of winners and anthologists who had been able to make the trip to Tauranga. It was great to put faces to the names of the writers who’d created these amazing worlds, plots, characters and filled our minds with adventures beyond the stars.
Look out for more young writers’ competitions on www.youngnzwriters.weebly.com
Charlotte 30th July 2016 at 5:00 pm
Hello, I was wondering where I can purchase this book please?
Jan Goldie 30th July 2016 at 6:41 pm
Hi there, thanks for the question. Try this link: https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Stars-4-Chad-Dick/dp/0473354462
Or enter Beyond the Stars, editors Chad Dick and Jan Goldie if you can’t get this to work. Let me know if you have trouble. Jan
Charlotte 30th July 2016 at 9:04 pm
Thank you 🙂 Is there nowhere in New Zealand to purchase from?
Jan Goldie 30th July 2016 at 9:36 pm
I will find out for you and get back to you soon.
Jan Goldie 31st July 2016 at 12:37 pm
Hi Charlotte, are you one of the writers in the anthology? It looks like we’re sold out of the copies we ordered for New Zealand. So now the best way to get them is through Amazon Createspace for a paperback or Amazon kindle for eBook.
Charlotte 31st July 2016 at 4:03 pm
Hi, my daughter, Kaylah, is one of the writers and I wanted to get her a copy. Will look into Amazon. Thanks 🙂
Jan Goldie 9th August 2016 at 4:17 pm
Hi Charlotte and Kaylah, Piper has just had a big order come in for print copies of Beyond the Stars so she could include your order in that if you let us know how many you’d like. Email me on shellbewrite@gmail.com to let me know. Jan