Archive for the 'Competitions' Category

The City of Salisbury in Adelaide, South Australia, is a great supporter of the arts. Every year they sponsor a Writers’ Festival. I haven’t yet attended one of these but all reports say that it is a worthwhile event to attend.
As a part of that festival - to be held later this year - they […]

A while back I wrote about author DBA Lehane who publishes a short story on his blog called Short Short Fiction every day.
This author has announced a short short short short short short story competition.
Yes - six “shorts” - meaning you have to write a story in just six words. Hemmingway did it with the […]

Darren Rowse on ProBlogger has done it again. He has challenged readers to a new Group Writing Project.
This time the challenge is to write and post a new “How to..” article and send the link to him. I was writing an article on my birding blog and realised half way through how to turn it […]

Had some bad news in the mail yesterday. I received the results of a literary competition run by an Australian magazine. I had submitted three poems and three short stories. None was successful. [Update: That last sentence should read: “None were successful.” See comments for an explanation.] Same result as last year, but with […]