About the challenge

During the Boekenweek (the Dutch Book Week, from 12 March until 23 March) we are organizing a 10-day challenge for every UG student, during which you get to know recent novels. By participating in the challenge, you can step into the shoes of the writer. In which direction will you take the story?

The challenge

Each day will be centered around one novel (alternating between Dutch and English books). You can enter a contest in which you are given the first sentence of the novel and have to come up with a second and third sentence in the same style. This way, you can write your own beginning to the novel of the day. Every day a winner will be drawn among the submissions and will win the book of the day. You can participate every day, but also just once.

Join in!

• The “Book of the Day” and the first sentence can be found on this page every day, but also physically in a display case in the UB, together with another work from the same author.

• Send your answer via the Google Form that you can find underneath the book of the day on this website.

• The next day, we will announce the winner and the winning sentences on this page.
  

About us

Starting Stories is an idea of the team Profielversterking Nederlands in close co-operation with the University Library. In realising it in practice we worked together with colleagues and students in the Faculty of Arts (Nederlandse taal en cultuur, European Languages and Cultures, English Language and Culture, Marketing and Communication) and many others who share our love of books!