Renowned as the face that launched a thousand ships, Helen of Troy was the most beautiful woman in the world – sorry, the most beautiful of the mortal women, lest we incur Aphrodite's wrath – and a crucial figure in the epic Trojan War, that most important of Greek mythology's events. Though the cause of the war rests with another pesky goddess – Eris, the goddess of discord – rather than Helen herself, without Helen's bewitching beauty, Paris would not have felt the need to abduct (entice?) her, incite Menelaus's fury and instigate a conflict that was to rage for ten long years.

Now it is your chance to delve deeper into the character and backstory of Helen, to shine a light on more than her immediate link to the Trojan War. Whether you explore her beauty as a heavy burden (she was fought over by numerous suitors before Paris stole her from Menelaus), or the multiple viewpoints of her motivations and moral character as offered by the contradictory classical sources, or develop a whole new history, path to tread or time to inhabit, we look forward to seeing some original stories!