Brisbane Writers Challenge
Join in our 15-Day Writers Challenge and flex your writing muscles!
At Brisbane Writers Festival, we have a story for you…but do you have one for us?
As part of our partnership with goa billboards, we’re running a fifteen-day writing challenge to discover Brisbane’s next generation of wordsmiths. If you have a Hills Hoist haiku, a jacaranda jeremiad or some Proustian prose about Paddington, we’d love to read it.
Keep an eye out for the daily writing prompts on our billboards, website and Twitter; publish to your socials and tag us; or send directly via the BWF website. We’ll publish our favourite pieces in a commemorative zine (available at the Festival), hot off the press and ready to stick to mum’s fridge for Mother’s Day.
So ink your nibs, put on an unseasonal turtleneck and take to our glorious city streets – if you don’t get a sonnet out of it, you might get a date!
Terms and conditions
Word count is capped at 500 words per piece - max! A short story is a good story... Yes you can submit more than once per prompt.
Though you won’t be paid for published pieces you’ll receive a double pass to one of our fabulous BWF events. You’ll also retain copyright to your piece if you wish to publish elsewhere.
By submitting, you infer permission for us to publish your story. If your piece is shortlisted for the zine, we’ll contact you ahead of the festival to confirm publication details.
The closing date for submissions to be considered for the Zine is midnight Tuesday 26 April.
#Here are all the prompts so far....
#Prompt # 1
Write a myth about what happens when people move to Brisbane
#Prompt #2
Finish this story: “I was drinking a Milton mango down by the brown snake, when...”
#Prompt #3
Write a dramatic scene that takes place in Queen St Mall
#Prompt #4
Explore a character’s most embarrassing moment
#Prompt #5
Write a haiku about Brisbane nightlife
#Prompt #6
Compose a love letter to your suburb
#Prompt #7
Write a poem about the Queensland weather
#Prompt #8
Observe a passer-by, and write a scene about their character’s day
#Prompt #9
Invent a word. Tell us what it means and use it in a sentence
#Prompt #10
Finish this story.... “It was a regular night at Ric’s, when...”
#Prompt #11
Compose a sonnet about Brisbane wildlife
#Prompt #12
Write an abecedarian poem. Each line starts with a,b,c...
#Prompt #13
A short story about a chance encounter at Indooroopilly train station
#Prompt #14
In this scene a character returns to Brisbane after many years away
#Prompt #15
Finish a story with this line: “...and that’s why we don’t cross the river.”
