You are invited to join the Geelong Writers Ekphrastic Experience! We invite everyone – members and non-members alike – to participate. Use this image (Nests, photo by Julie Rysdale) as a prompt to write a poem or piece of prose … Continued
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The first Geelong Writers Ekphrastic Challenge for 2025 featured the photo Beach, by Anne Franks, inviting writers to respond to the image in a submission of up to 300 words. Ekphrastic enthusiasts responded to the Beach image with original … Continued
Geelong Writers Ekphrastic Challenge No. 11, December 2024 – January 2025 [Submissions of up to 300 words closed on Sunday 12 January 2025.] Fireworks (image: Quinlivan) Congratulations to those who submitted to the Geelong Writers final Ekphrastic Challenge for 2024. … Continued
COMPLEXITY (Image by John Heritage) Congratulations to those who submitted to the Geelong Writers tenth Ekphrastic Challenge for 2024. The image ‘Complexity’ (by John Heritage) provided the stimulus for original ideas about light and shade, intersections, interactions and … Continued
‘Raw Sunset’ – Tom Adair Congratulations to those who submitted to the Geelong Writers ninth Ekphrastic Challenge for 2024. The image ‘Raw Sunset’ (by Tom Adair) provided a prompt for broad-ranging responses, all with a … Continued
Pressing by Jo Curtain We have published the works of the following 26 writers, and again we applaud the students from Mount Waverley Secondary College for their enthusiasm and fabulous contributions. Jan Price | Geoffrey Gaskill | Harry Roberts … Continued
In the spirit of John Clarke (aka Dylan Thompson) whose A Child’s Christmas in Warrnambool continues to delight, we invited writers to send us a parody of a Christmas story, poem, song or tradition. Listen to John Clarke read … Continued
The Finest 500 is an annual competition for Geelong Writers’ members. This year, writers were invited to submit prose or poetry to 500 words in response to the theme: Remnants. Read five of the longlisted pieces below. LONGLISTED: ‘Traces’ … Continued
The Finest 500 is an annual competition for Geelong Writers’ members. This year, writers were invited to submit prose or poetry to 500 words in response to the theme: Remnants. Read five of the longlisted pieces below. LONGLISTED: ‘Dregs’ … Continued
The Finest 500 is an annual competition for Geelong Writers’ members. This year, writers were invited to submit prose or poetry to 500 words in response to the theme: Remnants. Julie Maclean judged the shortlist. You can read her … Continued