Ten years ago I won a trip to New York. If this happened today I’d delete the email | Maddie Thomas

Something so incredible had to be a scam. No one at school could believe it either

Everyone needs a good dinner-party story up their sleeve. Mine? I once won a trip to New York.

I was 16 and, at the start of school term in 2013, I set out to make a short film for English class. I'd always been a film buff so it was, in part, a test to see if film-making could be a future career.

You've won return air fare + 4 nights accommodation for you and a friend to go to New York to do Tropfest in style.