Photo by Hans on Unsplash Publication of Responses A big thank you to all the writers who took up the challenge of Ekphrastic Challenge #6 2026. This was a Winter Solstice Challenge where writers were challenged to respond to a … Continued
Video by mariamargarit1998 from Pixabay Publication of Responses A big thank you to all the writers who took up the challenge of Ekphrastic Challenge #5 2026. Entries closed on Monday, 25 May, 2026. Participants proved to have sturdy sea legs … Continued
Attribution: Image by Ray_Shrewsberry from Pixabay Publication of Responses A big thank you to all the writers who took up the challenge of Ekphrastic Challenge #4 2026. Entries closed on Saturday, 25 April, 2026. Participants embraced the challenge with gusto and provided a … Continued
Attribution: Image by K_2_K from Pixabay Publication of Responses A big thank you to all the writers who took up the challenge of Ekphrastic Challenge #3 2026 and survived crossing the road. Entries closed on Wednesday, 25 March, 2026. Most participants seemed to … Continued
Attribution: Image by Couleur from Pixabay. Publication of Responses A big thank you to all the writers who took up the challenge of Ekphrastic Challenge #2 2026. Entries closed on Sunday, 25 February, 2026. Again, we received a wonderful range of imaginative, thought-provoking … Continued
Image Attribution: Ronan Furuta at https://unsplash.com/ Publication of Responses A big thank you to all the writers who took up the challenge of Ekphrastic Challenge #1 2026. Entries closed on Sunday, 25 January, 2026. We received a wonderful range of imaginative, … Continued
Geelong Writers Ekphrastic Challenge Cloistered Hippo #10, 2025 Entries have now closed and selected responses are published below. The next Ekphrastic Challenge will be published in 2026, under the leadership of incoming Ekphrastic Challenge moderator, Martin Smith. Geelong Writers wishes … Continued
We publish below responses to the Geelong Writers’ October 2025 Ekphrastic Challenge We asked readers to use this image below (Hurry, by Jan Price) as a prompt to write an original poem or original piece of prose (fiction or … Continued
Responses to Geelong Writers’ Ekphrastic Challenge for September 2025: Sea Lake silo We invited everyone – members and non-members alike – to use this image, ‘Sea Lake silo (image by Jo Curtain) to inspire an original response (either prose or … Continued
Responses to the August Challenge: We invited everyone – members and non-members alike – to use this image, ‘Wedge tail’ (photo by David Bridge), to inspire an original response in 300 words or less. We present the contributions of … Continued