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Summer
Parodies Competition - The Winners
18 July 2003
 Shakespeare,
Laurie Lee and Paul Simon were among the authors bent to your will in
our Summer Parodies competition.
We
asked you to write a parody of an existing literary piece, or in the style
of a particular author or genre. The parody had to be Archers-related,
and have some connection with Midsummer's Day. Entries were judged on
relevance to the Midsummer theme and to the material parodied, Archers
content, and wit.
Two
winners receive a signed copy of The Archers: 1987-2000 - Back
To The Land, the final novel in Joanna Toye's trilogy retelling the
story of the Archer family over the last five decades.
The
winner in the prose section is "Clint Driftwood" for
his epic Dickens parody A Midsummer's Carol. Read part one.
The
winner in the verse section is "Jenny Darling" who borrowed
from Coleridge for The Ancient Midsummer Melody.
Five
runners-up will win Archers pens:
Phyllis
Doris
for Cider with Shula (Laurie Lee)
Careen Grange for There's a Hole in my Pentop (Trad - we
think)
Chris Hanson for Time Team or What you Will (W. Shakespeare/Time
Team)
Tony
Keen for In The Midsummer Sun (Anthony Shaffer/The Wicker Man)
Liz Simpson for The Midsummer Mashque (Caryl Brahms and
SJ Simon)
Judging
- particularly choosing the two overall winners - was a very difficult
task, and we thank all those who entered.
All
the entries were posted on the Fantasy Archers topic of The Archers message
board, which features a constant flow of high quality fantasies and
literary parodies.
The
listeners' parodies section of this
website contains a selection of some of the wonderful parodies which listeners
have written in the past.
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