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For the ninth consecutive year, the city of Alhama through the Department of Culture and Heritage has called the Short Story Contest IX Alfonso Martínez Mena after the deadline for submission of the accounts has been recorded this year has reached a participation of 908 stories from all continents.
The mayor of Culture, Jesus Basauri, has reported that not only to highlight the number of reports received, but the quality of them.
The stories arrived from different places, different continents, different countries, different regions and different peoples, have offered an initial assessment has been done through its postmark, and by place of origin of the 908 stories in this edition were involved IX writers from 22 countries, America, Asia and Europe.
A total of 137 foreign accounts of 21 nationalities and 2 stories of those who do not know the source.
As for the Spanish, Madrid stands where you have submitted 178 stories to 85 stories Andalusia, Catalonia with 70, Valencia with 69 and the Region of Murcia with a total of 70 stories, with the town of Alhama de Murcia ten short stories .
Since last January the Preliminary Jury, composed of teachers of Language and Literature Secondary School Valle de Leiva and teachers of Secondary School Miguel Hernández, are carrying out the measurements to a first selection, which will In early March a jury Intermediate and end of the month at the Final Jury.
This will have the difficult task of evaluating and deciding among thirty finalists stories, the award of two prizes of 3,000 and 1,500 euros, respectively first and second prize which will be announced at the Jury meeting on 18 April and presented to the winners on Saturday April 25, 2008.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Alhama de Murcia
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