Archive for the 'Competitions' Category

The Frustrations of the Writer’s Life It has been a long time since my last entry in this series of articles. I have been very busy finishing off my course work for my degree. Then I had a stay in hospital followed closely by my wife having a stay in hospital too. On top of [...]

How sweet it is to get paid for one’s writing! I received the cheque in the mail today for the prize winning poem I entered in a recent competition. Nice to be acknowledged in a competition – and get paid for it. It has inspired me to write more poems and stories and send them [...]

Yahoo – I’m doing the writer’s jig again and again and again. I just received notification this morning that I have won first prize in a Literary Competition. It was for a suite of poems in sonnet form and was entered in the Traditional Rhyming Poetry section. The competition was conducted by Freexpression magazine here [...]

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 – [...]

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 [...]