Category: Competition

Bliz or Quog?

Creating a challenging quiz on-line is quite difficult. They end up being either too hard or too easy. Generally graphical quizzes are hard as they are more difficult to to research on the web, but achieving this makes composing them difficult, word quizzes tend to be much easier to research. Thinking about this reminded me of the ‘Round Britain Quiz’, which unfortunately is not yet available on the BBC iPlayer.  Continue reading “Bliz or Quog?”

10th Poetry Competition

Where are you, Poets, that a Hero dies
Unsung? He who, when Duty brought too soon
His billet of rest toiled on till he had won
The countersign of Glory?

A plea for pomes!

An Author Addiction
And Awful Affliction
Avoiding Any Actual
Artistic Achievement

Alliteration in poetry can be very effective, and overdone can be amusing. Any form will do, but a minimum of eight lines please. The theme is gem stones or precious metals but please include some awesome alliteration!

Submit your scribbles, or even gorgeous gems in a post or on this thread by Midnight, 19th May 2011

May Creative Writing Competition

Inspired by Pseu’s intriguing story, the subject will be “The Royal Wedding“.

The connection may be as tenuous as you like, but it must be there, somehow.   The words ‘grace‘ and ‘shovel‘ must be included, and each entry should contain a minimum of 1,250 words; there is no upper limit.

The Competition will close at midnight on Sunday the 15th May, AEST – so get your skates on!

A Woman’s Prerogative

Kate woke with the blackbirds, very early on the morning before the big day, with a headache. She had been feeling lousy with the remnants of a head cold pressing into her sinuses and the day before had dealt with several nosebleeds. But this headache was more than the result of sinusitis. She felt a great tension in her shoulders and along her spine. As she stood on the scales in the bathroom and tried to look down she felt the tightness in her spinal chord from her neck down to her waist. She found she could not see the scale and therefore did not record her weight in her diary for the first time since she turned 15 which felt rather odd. Continue reading “A Woman’s Prerogative”

Seventh Photo Competition – Results

A slow start but a fine group of entries.
I used the word “evoke” in setting the competition and just revisited one of the word’s definitions

“To produce or suggest through artistry or imagination a vivid impression of reality”

Stark though it is, Soutie’s photo of the new home for Autism Eastern Cape produced in me a vivid impression of the realities of the ongoing struggle in this area of care. A triumph of function over form, we see not a homely thatched cottage, but bricks and iron fences. Behind the facade, inside the doors lies the reality, hope and comfort for many.
Thanks Soutie you certainly raised my awareness.

8th poetry compo

Baobab tree

Any style you feel like, any genre, I’d like to hear a story, your entry has to have at least one African place name or African politician / celebrity in it..

Doesn’t have to be South African, Pyramids are fine, a trip to Victoria falls is okay.

I simply want a beginning and an end, a minimum of 12 lines, present them as you will.

For example Continue reading “8th poetry compo”