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 (fiction or non-fiction) specifically written for the image presented, using up to 300 words. [The upper limit for each submission is 300 words, not including the title and author’s name.]
We invite:
– writing that connects with the image or springs from it
– writing that has been written for the specific purpose of being published on the Geelong Writers Ekphrastic Challenge webpage
– only one submission per person
Please provide a title for your response to the image and please check your work for errors
Be bold, be creative, and let the image provoke your imagination.
And, most importantly, have fun!
When selecting submissions for publication, we look for original responses to the image, rather than responses to any factors other than the image (e.g. the title). We collate submissions for publication so that we can showcase how the challenge has provoked wide-ranging, inventive responses which all clearly reference the image.
Please email your work to ekphrastic@geelongwriters.org.au with NESTS in the subject line by Sunday 23 March 2025.
If you are submitting any work that has unusual indents or forms such as shape poems, please send them as an image, for example in .jpg format.
Please do not send PDFs. Due to the nature of our publishing software, we may be unable to include any submissions using PDF in our published selection.
If you are under 18 please confirm that you have permission from a parent, guardian or teacher (if the challenge is being written as part of a school activity), to have your work published online.
A selection of the best responses will be published online by Sunday 30 March.
Previous submissions to the Geelong Writers Ekphrastic Challenges which were published are available here:
Geelong Writers Ekphrastic Writing
We strongly encourage you to read the examples there, as well as those listed in the links below.
The Ekphrastic Review archives
Ogunquit Museum of American Art
Rattle Ekphrastic Challenges
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