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Short story competition. Rain never stops play.

Put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard): Creative Tourist and Rainy City Stories launch their first joint short story competition – open to anyone from any city across the world

Jun 02, 2010 | Comments: 2

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The Art of the City. Photo competition.

Can you help capture the art of the city? We launch our first open photography competition today to find out – and the winner will walk away with a luxury weekend break, signed Don McCullin goodies and their own postcard set

Jan 15, 2010 | Comments: 0

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