By Dimitar Tsekov | Executive Director
Dear friends,
The Bulgarian Creative Writing Competition is back for its 15th edition, offering young writers across the country an exciting opportunity to unleash their creativity. This year’s competition brings a new twist with the special Literary Delights contest, inviting students to craft imaginative prose or poetry inspired by culinary themes.
About the Contest: The Literary Delights contest encourages participants to explore creative interpretations of food-related topics. Writers can submit tasty stories featuring unusual ingredients, poems about the flavors of memories, culinary adventures and sweet tales. This competition aims to highlight young writers’ originality while offering a fun, flavorful challenge.
Showcase Event: The winners of the contest will have the chance to present their work live at a public reading event on November 9th, 2024, at the Central Halls Stage in Sofia. This platform will allow the young authors to share their talent with a broader audience and celebrate their literary achievements.
To kick-off the contest we want to share with you this beautiful poem written by Dimitar - a student in 10th grade from Silistra.
The particular happiness of the lemon cake.
Maybe it’s just the feeling of a fresh lemon cake,
or maybe it’s the sparkling thrill when you bake.
Maybe it’s the taste, maybe it is not.
Maybe it’s just that happy vibe that it has got.
But when I was ten and saw mom holding the cake,
bringing it in my room, leaving sweet scent in its wake.
Only then, and only then could I feel
The pure emotion a child’s heart can never conceal.
Happiness.
Happiness so peculiar it’s only felt with the heart.
Happiness of the boy who just got his first kart.
Happiness of the girl and doll that can be never torn apart.
Happiness so innocent, childish and pure, simply a work of art.
The cake was mine and only mine.
And that’s the last time I felt so divine.
Now I’m thirty and working and lying and trying.
I tell myself “Be strong!” but I’m just slowly dying.
Caught in the spiderweb of adulthood and money.
An ugly scene, yes, but isn’t it just funny?
How today we are ten, tomorrow we are thirty?
Giving it our all when it’s not considered worthy?
Oh, how I want to be ten again.
Doing whatever I want just because I can.
Roaming the street, wondering “What should I do?”
Play with my friends, maybe chase a girl or two.
You can’t even imagine what I’d give and take
Just for one last bite of that cake.
I know this may seem a little sappy,
but I would do anything just to get a taste of what it was like to be happy.
Your generosity helps us plant the seeds of creativity this fall,
BCWC team
By Dimitar Tsekov | Executive Director
By Dimitar Tsekov | Executive Director
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