Earlier this year I entered the NYC Midnight 100-word Microfiction Challenge, an international creative writing competition that challenges participants to write original 100-word stories by giving them a specific genre, action and word assignment, in 24 hours. Every writer is placed in a specific group based on the genre, action and word assignment they are given. The competition judges pick 15
Read moreThe brief of the AWC Furious Fiction – September 2023 short story competition was as follows: Your story must start and end with the same sentence. Your story must feature something being inflated Your story must include the words FLAG, FLAME, FLASH, and FLATTER. *** Daily Routine My birthday is really just like every other day. I go through the
Read moreThe brief of the AWC Furious Fiction – August 2023 short story competition was as follows: Your story must take place in a RESTAURANT Your story must include a character who smashes something Your story must include the words EUPHORIA, LABYRINTH, and SILHOUETTE. *** Last Meal Who had the bright idea to open a restaurant where you dine in the
Read moreThe brief of the AWC Furious Fiction – July 2023 short story competition was as follows: Your story must include a CHILD (16 or younger) as its main character. Your story’s first sentence must contain two colours. Your story must include the words BUMPER, PRIZE, and IMPOSSIBLE. #As this story prompted a child to be the main character, I made
Read moreThe brief of the AWC Furious Fiction – December 2022 short story competition was as follows: Your story must OPEN with a 12-word sentence. Your story must include the sale of a second-hand item. Your story must include at least five (5) different words that end in the letters ‘ICE’. *** Trash to Treasure The last time I saw her
Read moreThe brief of the AWC Furious Fiction – June 2023 short story competition was as follows: Your story must begin in the MIDDLE of something. Your story must include the words ROCKET, POCKET, SOCKET, and LOCKET. *** A Bushranger’s Eulogy Mum would always take off like a rocket during a chase. She loved it when it was on foot, she’d
Read moreThe brief of the AWC Furious Fiction – March 2023 short story competition was as follows: Your story must include a CHAIR of some sort. Your story must include the words ALBUM, BRIGHT, and CLICK. Your story must include a character who has to make a CHOICE between two things. *** Deal or No Deal I’ve been sitting by my
Read moreThe brief of the AWC Furious Fiction – April 2023 short story competition was as follows: Your story must include something that CHANGES COLOUR. Your story must include the words ACCEPT, POINT, RIDDLE, INKLING and LABEL. APRIL FOCUS: Your story must have an ENGAGING OPENING SENTENCE – one that will make your reader want to read on. *** Cold Feet
Read moreThe prompt for the Australian Writers’ Centre’s (AWC) First Friday Fix for January 2022 (which was their inaugural First Friday Fix) was writing a 50-word story on the theme of NEW BEGINNINGS. *** Day One Now is the time, Now is the day, Now or never, Now is right. Now is the New Year, Now is Day One, Now is
Read moreThe prompt for the Australian Writers’ Centre’s (AWC) First Friday Fix for August 2022 was three creative writing exercises to write three scenes, focusing on showing not telling. Write a short scene about a sad man standing in the rain. You CANNOT use the words “sad” or “rain” – focus on showing this in other ways. (“Ruined Plans”) Same again,
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