HOME ABOUT BALLARDOSPHERE INTERVIEWS REVIEWS FEATURES BIBLIOGRAPHY ARCHIVAL FORUM CONTACT
TWITTER BALLARDOTUBE JGB BOOKSHOP FACEBOOK          

Archive for the ‘competitions’ Category

Ballardian/Savoy Microfiction competition winners

By Simon Sellars • Feb 2nd, 2010 •

Category: Lead Story, Savoy Books, competitions, features

In November, we announced our first microfiction competition, promoting our 3-part series of interviews with luminaries from Savoy Books. As the second interview is due online soon, we thought now’s the time to announce the prizewinners… Many thanks to all who entered!


Extended deadline: Ballardian/Savoy microfiction competition

By Simon Sellars • Dec 5th, 2009 •

Category: Ballardosphere, Savoy Books, competitions

Due to popular demand, the Ballardian/Savoy microfiction competition deadline has now been extended to 15 December. Keep those entries coming!


Ballardian.com presents the Savoy Books Microfiction Competition

By Ballardian • Nov 5th, 2009 •

Category: Ballardosphere, Savoy Books, competitions

The very first Savoy/Ballardian Microfiction Competition! Write a short story of 100 words or less on “Savoyesque’ or ‘Ballardian’ themes, and win super-rare Savoy books and comic books, and Savoy CDs.


Ballardian Home Movies: The Final Cut

By Simon Sellars • Mar 2nd, 2008 •

Category: YouTube, competitions, dystopia, entropy, features, film, gated communities, humour, psychopathology, speed & violence, suburbia, suicide, surveillance, technology, television, urban decay

Here are the entries in the 1st Ballardian Festival of Home Movies. Congratulations to the winner, Ben Slater.


Competition Winner: Starsky & Hutch, by J.G. Ballard

By Ballardian • Dec 5th, 2006 •

Category: Ballardosphere, competitions, features, film, pastiche, television

Illustration by Rick McGrath.
“Television crime series…were filled with their huge carapaces, swerving in and out of alleys, reversing in a howl of burning rubber. Watched with the sound down, episodes of Starsky and Hutch resembled instructional films on valet parking”.
———————–
J.G. Ballard, 2005
———————–
Announcing the winner of our J.G. Ballard Pastiche competition, sponsored by the kind people [...]