Back to 80: My literary life

Chapter 25 Winning the Second Prize

"The Call of the New Era - Poetry Essay Contest". Since the start of the competition, it has immediately attracted the attention of the poetry world and even the literary world. Poetry lovers have enthusiastically submitted articles. It has set off a wave of poetry writing and reading poetry across the country, and has brought great reputation to "Contemporary" magazine.

There are also economic benefits. The circulation of the magazine increases. When the income is high, more bonuses can be given to employees, and employees will be motivated to work. It is a virtuous circle.

As the specific person in charge of this poetry essay contest, deputy editor-in-chief of the editorial department Zhang Zhonge had a very busy day. No, he was required to attend the meeting of the contest jury.

After multiple rounds of screening in the primary and semi-finals, the competition jury selected 106 outstanding poems from the 20 poems published in the semi-finals and combined with public voting. Not surprisingly, the first, second and third prizes of this competition were From these 20 poems will be chosen and the rest will be awarded for excellence.

This is the last and most important meeting of the jury, because the first, second and third prizes of the competition will be determined today!
  Zhang Zhonge is not a member of the jury, but as the organizer of the competition, he has to attend the meeting.

The meeting was held on the third floor. All members of the jury attended today and no one asked for leave.

For a moment, the conference room was filled with smoke and saliva was flying everywhere.

Although these big names in poetry may appear to be polite and polite to outsiders, when everyone is behind closed doors together, slang and dialects are everywhere.

We all know each other, even familiar with each other, so why are we pretending?

Zhang Zhong'e was not rated as having no right to speak but to listen, but he was too lazy to listen. When he was bored, he began to wonder who the author of these twenty poems was.

In fact, this is not difficult. As a senior editor, I deal with poetry every day, and for a famous poet, his poetry writing style is basically certain.

"Poem No. 23 "Hui'an Women" should have been written by Shu Ting." Zhang Zhong'e immediately judged after looking at the poem.

Shu Ting's poems have the unique sensitivity and delicacy of women, and are timeless with the understanding of life, and the whole poem exudes the publicity of female consciousness.

Well this.
  Zhang Zhong'e saw another poem, number 47, which should be from Beidao.

Each sentence contains profound philosophy under the cold and lyrical tone.

This kind of poetry is what Bei Dao is best at.

Zhang Zhonge turned the page and was quickly attracted by another song.

"I'm Still a Wayward Child" No. 84

Simple, ethereal, weird and clean.

Nine times out of ten it was written by Gu Cheng!
  Who wrote this poem?
  Zhang Zhonge held a poem numbered 101 titled "Premonition".

It's very short, just five sentences.

Obviously, it describes the first love of a boy and a girl.

When we like someone, our hearts will not lie. If your heart beats faster, if your face turns red and your heart beats, it means that I have fallen in love with you.

Who wrote it?

Zhang Zhong'e guessed all the famous poets in China that he knew, but he still couldn't figure out who they were.

Just wait for the results.

After a heated debate, the judges carefully selected six more poems from the twenty poems, and based on public voting and comprehensive evaluation, the first, second and third prizes were selected.

Among them, work No. 47 "Rainy Night" won the first prize in this poetry competition, while "I am a wayward child" and "Premonition" won the second prize.

"Hui'an Woman" and the other three songs won the third prize.

The most exciting part is coming!
  Who is the author of these poems?
  The organizing committee staff quickly brought the roster.

"Rainy Night": author Bei Dao!
  This result is not beyond everyone's expectations. Bei Dao has been very popular in recent years and has become a flag-bearer for the new generation of poets. Some people in the jury also guessed it. And the song "Everything" is also very well written. "I am a wayward child": author Gu Cheng!
  Another new generation poet, he shocked the poetry world with two lines of "A Generation", and this poem "Wayward Child" is also in line with his style.

""Premonition" Author: Minghua
  When the staff announced the author's name, everyone around him looked confused.

Who is Minghua? Before I had time to read the author's introduction, a staff member suddenly said: "I remembered that there was a short poem "Spring" published in "Yanhe" in Qin Province in October last year, and the author was Minghua."

"Yes, he is my hometown party member! He also wrote a novel called "Into the Dust and Smoke", which was published in this year's special issue of "Yanhe", "Qin Province Young Writers' Novel Issue", and speaks in a standard Guanzhong accent.

It's him.

Zhang Zhonge has not read the novel, but after reading the short poem, he couldn't help but laugh.

It turned out to be from "Yanhe" magazine. I called the old director later and expressed my congratulations to him.

It was already the next morning that Fang Minghua knew the news.

After working the night shift, he got up on time at seven o'clock, washed up, made the bed, and then waited for Old Wu to take over.

Before Lao Wu could wait, he saw a middle-aged man entering the door. It was deputy editor Dong Mo.

"Good morning, Editor-in-Chief Dong!" Fang Minghua hurriedly greeted outside the window.

"Morning!" Dong Mo said and actually pushed the door open and entered the guard room: "Xiao Fang, congratulations."

"Congratulations?"

"You kid, did you submit your article to "Contemporary" to participate in the poetry contest?" Dong Mo asked.

"Editor Dong, how do you know?" Fang Minghua was surprised.

He didn't tell anyone about this, and the results of the competition haven't come out yet.

"Yesterday afternoon, Editor-in-Chief Zhang of "Contemporary" called me! He said that a comrade from our magazine named Fang Minghua submitted an article for the competition. Besides you, who else in the entire unit is named Fang Minghua?"

"Hey, it's me. I saw that "Contemporary" is holding a poetry contest, right? I just wanted to give it a try and see if I could earn some bonuses." Fang Minghua didn't hide anything and told the story.

"Congratulations, you have earned the second prize! The bonus is 300 yuan, and you are going to treat me this time!"

second prize? !

It was beyond Fang Minghua's expectation.

He originally thought that it would be good to get an excellence award and earn 100 yuan.

"A treat, I will treat you!" Fang Minghua was overjoyed.

"Xiao Fang, write well." Dong Mo patted his shoulder; "Don't tell me, among the authors I know in Qin Province, there are some who write good poems and some who write good novels, but the novels are good. You can also write good poetry, but you are the only one!"

"Editor-in-Chief Dong, you appreciate it."

"You kid, just leave modestly." Dong Mo said and left the guard room.

"Chief Editor Dong, walk slowly!"

Fang Minghua greeted.

Hey, I got 300 yuan.

"Poetry Magazine" soon announced the results of this essay contest. Fang Minghua's "Premonition" won the second prize, almost tied with the poems of Bei Dao, Gu Cheng and Shu Ting.

Letters from readers once again came like snowflakes.

Of course, there must be a letter from Li Li, a girl from Western University.

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