Hadrian's Wall Twitter Comp...

Just when you thought people had run out of things to do with Twitter, along comes Hadrian's Wall Heritage with a Twitter writing challenge no less...

The idea is to write a Tweet - apparently that's what a Twitter message is called - about Hadrian's Wall. You have just the 140 characters allowed by Twitter to get your message across and your message must contain the phrase 'Hadrian's Wall'.


That's it, simple.  Other than that, you can write what you want. The winner will land a neat Apple iPod nano 8GB and the competition will be judged by author and broadcaster Eric Robson.

“We want to see just how well people can write about the Wall with only 140 characters available to them.,' he says. 'I think it’ll be a great test of people’s creative writing skills!  The key to success will be thinking very carefully about the words you use.
 
”It doesn’t matter whether or not you’ve had the chance to see Hadrian’s Wall first hand yet.  You could write about your experience of visiting the Wall or maybe just what you think about Hadrian’s Wall as an engineering achievement.  You could even create a very short story about Hadrian’s Wall.  The sky’s the limit.”

Hmmm... a very short story we reckon. The whole point of the competition is to promote the Living Frontier historial re-enactment event between 26 and 31 May - half term week - and specifically the wall's Twitter presence at www.twitter.com/EmperorHadrian which is promoting the event. More details of that at www.livingfrontier.co.uk

Deadline for entries is 5pm on 15 May. You can either mail your entry to comms@hadrianswallheritage.co.uk or add it to The Wall at the Living Frontier Facebook page - yes, they have one of those too...

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