Shoalhaven Literary Award 2017 - including Geoff Bolton award

Shoalhaven Literary Award 2017 for Short Stories

Closing date: Friday 27 May 2017

The Shoalhaven Branch of the Fellowship of Australian Writers is excited to announce an increase in prize money for its prestigious Shoalhaven Literary Award, launched on 20 February 2017.

With the ongoing and valued support of the Shoalhaven Arts Board and Bundanon Trust, this year the writer of the winning story will receive $1500, together with a two-week artist residency at Bundanon, Arthur & Yvonne Boyd’s Gift to Australia, on the Shoalhaven River near Nowra, NSW.

Second prize is $250, third $150 and the Geoff Bolton Award for an entry from a Shoalhaven resident will receive $200.

Geoff & writing group May 2013

Further information is available from

http://fawnsw.org.au/shoalhaven-literary-award-2017-for-short-stories/

 

Record of meeting 19 April 2017

The writers

Cath, Pat, Helene, Terry, Lynn, Elizabeth

The words of the day

Quasar – energy

Enmity – hostility, animosity

Immutable – not susceptible to change

Risible – inclined to laugh or ludicrous

Meme – Image video spread by the Internet

Noble – dignified, gracious, righteous, self sacrificing

Writing from words of the day

The writers took the words and created a range of stories: Elizabeth – A few situations, Pat - Standing at the gravesite, Lynne – Unrealistic, Terry – Delirious, Helene – Moving to another planet and Cath – failing company.

Reading of homework

Three writers read out homework - Helene – FOMO, Pat – Goldilocks parts 2 and Lynn – Darcy continued.

Exercise – choose a colour

We selected a colour and five items in that colour and wrote the following stories

Helene – Silver stars, Cath – The greenery, Elizabeth – The dress covered in yellow, Pat – Fainted next to the fridge, Lynne – I looked at the art work and Terry – In a blue police box.

Homework

Travelling on the train I sat next to a woman writing her diary on a tablet/Ipad. I saw the words “I fear somebody will discover the body soon”. Write a story around the diary entry or continue your previous story and include the diary entry if possible.