A New Zealander writes her way to meet Agatha Christie’s grandchild in London

 Tauranga resident Anna Killick has written her way to meeting Agatha Christie’s only grandchild, Mathew Prichard at an exclusive literary dinner in London. 

Killick entered the Write Your Own Christie competition hosted on the official Agatha Christie website, www.agathachristie.com.   The competition is being run over nine months with writers from around the world helping to write a new detective story using the opening scenes from the great crime writer’s novel A Murder is Announced as the starting point.  Beginning with an invitation to complete chapter one, each month the challenge is set to write the next chapter in the story.  Killick won chapter five of the competition and her entry was posted on the website.

The competition is being judged by Mathew Prichard who has been involved in the publishing and promotion of Christie’s books since the 1960s, David Brawn who has been Agatha Christie’s publisher at HarperCollins UK for the last 18 years, and also Daniel Mallory who works primarily with thrillers and crime fiction at HarperCollins US.

As one of the monthly winners Annie Killick’s chapter has been posted to the website and she has accepted her invitation to the literary dinner in London on date yet to be confirmed.

http://www.agathachristie.com/write-your-own-christie/