I’ve always found entering writing competitions a bit of a funny thing. I suppose it’s a direct mirror of what I suspect we all feel, all the time, as writers. That our work is concurrently both the worst and the best we’ve ever produced.

I’ve always loved time-travel stories. I think there’s something about them which drills right down into one of the most fundamental and universal truths that every single human ever born has to face – that time will go marching on whether you bloody well like it or not.

This year you’ve got just 300 words to play with, but if those words are wonderful, you could take first prize and win £500!!