Responses to the Geelong Writers Ekphrastic Challenge #3 We invited everyone – members and non-members alike – to respond to our Professor Lewis image and we publish the best entries below, for your enjoyment. We thank all … Continued
Thank you, Geelong Writers Ekphrastic Challenge fans! You have risen to the Challenge again. Selected for publication below are twenty-one entries to the Nests (#2 2025) challenge. In addition, received from Tony B. for our collective amusement, … Continued
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The first Geelong Writers Ekphrastic Challenge for 2025 featured the photo Beach, by Anne Franks, inviting writers to respond to the image in a submission of up to 300 words. Ekphrastic enthusiasts responded to the Beach image with original … Continued
Geelong Writers Ekphrastic Challenge No. 11, December 2024 – January 2025 [Submissions of up to 300 words closed on Sunday 12 January 2025.] Fireworks (image: Quinlivan) Congratulations to those who submitted to the Geelong Writers final Ekphrastic Challenge for 2024. … Continued
COMPLEXITY (Image by John Heritage) Congratulations to those who submitted to the Geelong Writers tenth Ekphrastic Challenge for 2024. The image ‘Complexity’ (by John Heritage) provided the stimulus for original ideas about light and shade, intersections, interactions and … Continued
Thank you to the following people for their wonderful submissions and for entering into the spirit of the Winter Solstice Cadenza Challenge: David Jones | John Farrington | Adam Stone | Allan Barden | Jan Price | Gail Griffin | … Continued
Where you live, by Jo Curtain SEE—THERE! ADRIAN BROOKES Out from these walls I release you, my soul, Into realms of blue eternity, Where no-one can know what you see except me— And high as you alone can soar, Far … Continued
Spiritual journey through art, by Mathilda Garrido Lucay IN THE BEGINNING GEOFFREY GASKILL In the Beginning … … the world is dark and without sound. These are the days before butterflies. The butterfly woman’s mother is the … Continued
Morea 1 & Morea 2, by Kim Rance DAISY’S WORLD JULIE RYSDALE MOTHER JO CURTAIN On the edge of the Pacific Ocean, Mother waits one thousand years in shrouded majesty rising through the earth, her love trickles down in … Continued
Untitled 3, by John Bartlett UNTITLED JO CURTAIN The Artist is born in a summer storm, under thick colossal clouds gathering above the Pacific Ocean. The Artist has no mother, no father, no siblings to guide them, only the … Continued