Can "Mulan Poem" become a drama script? Can "Winter in Jinan" become a fairy tale?
Last year, the double-blind proposition writing contest under the name of "No Boundary" sponsored by the literary magazine Harvest attracted much attention. On the occasion of the announcement of the final results of the first proposition writing competition, the second "Boundless" Literary Action "Middle School Chinese Famous Rewriting" was also officially launched. Rewriting is to treat the original work as unprocessed material and reprocess it from the special perspective of its own art form. Contestants can continue the character and storyline development of the original work according to the spirit of the original conception; they can expand or condense the original thinking, emotions, and language; and they can cross genres, fairy tales, fables, novels, essays, scripts, poems, essays, etc., and even directly create extravaganzas. It wants to make chinese interesting, so that more teachers and students can fall in love with language and Chinese again.
On January 24, harvest app published 50 rewrites, including "TianjingSha Qiusi", "Autumn Nostalgia", "The Emperor's New Clothes", "Back Shadow", "Hometown" and so on. The articles were also voted by readers from 100 alternative entries, and as of 00:00 on January 24, nearly 2,500 readers had voted.
This time in the "Unbounded" competition, proposition writing became a rewrite of the middle school Chinese name. Entrants are also divided into anonymous adult groups and non-anonymous student groups. The surging news reporter learned that the schedule is still 5 months, and there are 10 articles to choose from each month. The adult contestants were divided into two groups, one was the "Invited Group", composed of 25 writers, poets, critics or teacher-type writers engaged in the cause of creative writing education in colleges and universities, who randomly and anonymously dispersed over 5 months; the other group was the "Kick Pavilion Group", which called on literature lovers from all over the world to write in Chinese to come to the "Kick Pavilion" and "compete on the same stage" with famous writers.
In the poster just released by harvest App, it can be seen that the invited authors include Ah Yi, Cao Kou, Chen Qifan, Chen Si'an, Di An, Haifei, Han Song, Hu Xuewen, Huo Xiangjie, Old Begonia, Kong Yalei, Li Yi, Li Yi, Li Er, Li Hongwei, Li Xiuwen, Lin Zhao, Mu Ming, Sansan, Shi Yifeng, Wang Haoran, Wang William, Wang Yao, Zhang Chu, Zhang Weiwei, and Zheng Zaihuan.
"The first session mainly considered 'cross-border', we widely invited musicians, architects, artists, directors, actors, producers, poets, etc. who like to write, this time this time we focused on reading the classics, paying tribute to the youth of each writer, paying tribute to the solemn thoughts of the language, the 25 invited writers are writers with certain popularity, including 5 Winners of the Lu Xun Literature Award, and Li Er is the winner of the Mao Dun Literature Award." The editor-in-chief of the Harvest App and the planner of the competition walked around and told the surging news reporter, "Considering the creative direction of the rewriting, we also invited folk singers, science fiction writers, and playwrights. ”
Compared with the first edition, the specific format of the second edition has also been slightly adjusted. "In the first competition, all the 'special invited groups' automatically advanced to the middle evaluation, and many netizens left messages that felt that this was unfair, so the special invited writers this time will accept anonymous scoring from 4 preliminary judges like all kicking authors." Their works are released sequentially, but they may not make it into the top 15 with the highest total scores per month. ”
The student group is for teenagers aged 12-18 who write Chinese. Walk around, set up a student group and an adult group, and also want to see how students understand these masterpieces. "The improvement of writing literacy must be based on the premise of activating the language enthusiasm of students, especially middle school students, on the basis of language textbook learning, if you can change the style, change the fate of the characters, etc., will students love language more?" The introduction of the adult group is to make the language more interesting for experienced writers, and to let more teachers who teach language be inspired to fall in love with language again. She told the surging news reporter that in the final analysis, it is the Chinese language that loves us.
Therefore, the judges invited in the second session are not like the editors of the journals with writing experience in the first session, but the editors of the magazines of middle school students, the writer-type professors who teach creative writing in colleges and universities and have both writing experience, as well as very special master's degrees in creative writing, members of college literary clubs, and special teachers of middle and high school Chinese.
For example, the judges of the student group include Fan Yang, senior chinese teacher of the bilingual school affiliated to Shanghai Overseas Chinese University, Huang Yuning, deputy editor-in-chief of Shanghai Translation Publishing House and editor-in-chief of Foreign Literature and Art, Jiang Dong, writer and editor-in-chief of Junior High School Students, Li Xue, senior editor of Meiwen, Liu Chuanyou, senior teacher of Language of Jiaxing No. 1 Middle School Experimental School, Liu Wei, vice president of Beijing Eleventh School, Lu Zheng, vice president of Sprout, Wang Hongtu, tutor of Fudan MFA and professor of the Department of Chinese, and Xu Zhi, editor-in-chief of China Campus Literature Magazine.
The judges of the adult group include Fan Libin, president of shanghai university of international business and economics, Hu Sang, poet and tutor of tongji university's master's degree in creation, Huang Dehai, critic and deputy editor-in-chief of Sinan Literature Anthology, Lu Jizeng, poet and senior teacher of the affiliated middle school of Capital Normal University, Meng Xiaoshu, young writer and editor of "Contemporary", Tian Er, winner of Lu Xun Literature Award and writer-in-residence of Guangxi University, Wu Mei, former deputy editor-in-chief of Shanghai Secondary School Students Daily, Junior Daily, Contemporary Student Magazine, and Good Children, and Xiang Jing, writer and associate professor of East China Normal University. Poet and vice dean of the School of Letters of Chinese Min University, Yang Qingxiang.
The final jury members will also be announced. Among the six final judges, the inaugural first prize winner Ringo Sheng was also one of the members. "As far as the direction of language writing is concerned, the lineup of final judges is very strong. In addition to the main programming of "Harvest" Yongxin, Cao Wenxuan is a professor at Peking University and a winner of the International Hans Christian Andersen Award; many of the essays of writer Liu Liangcheng have been selected for language textbooks and language test questions, which are said to have exceeded 50; Zhu Yongxin is the national national reading image spokesperson and the initiator of the new education experiment; as for the mysterious guest X, I hope to retain suspense until the moment of the final election site discussion. On the day of the final election, we also invited essayist and critic Li Jingze to serve as the host of the scene. "Walk around and say.
It is reported that the second "Boundless" Literary Action "Secondary School Language Rewriting" is expected to be awarded in July, and the winners of the adult group and 10 winners of the student group can voluntarily pair up to complete an interesting non-fiction or fieldwork project together in the summer vacation.
"Boundless, it is intended to cross the traditional pure literary concept and break the circle, and it will continue in the second competition." Walking around, he said, "If our language teachers are all creative writers; if our writers are all qualified language teachers, this flow is itself very boundless." She even had ideas, inviting writers to come to middle school Chinese classes, one by one, interacting with the language teacher, and taking the same class.