In this video, actor Benedict Cumberbatch reads an apologetic guest’s hilarious letter to a hotel involving pizza and seagulls for the Letters Live series which celebrates the power of literary correspondence. Inspired by Shaun Usher’s Letters of Note series, Letters Live is an initiative by publishing company Canongate and Cumberbatch’s production company SunnyMarch.
Find details about every creative writing competition—including poetry contests, short story competitions, essay contests, awards for novels, grants for translators, and more—that we’ve published in the Grants & Awards section of Poets & Writers Magazine during the past year. We carefully review the practices and policies of each contest before including it in the Writing Contests database, the most trusted resource for legitimate writing contests available anywhere.