Welcome to the Geelong Writers Ekphrastic Challenge for June, 2025. This image is titled Turning Point, in view of the forthcoming winter solstice, marking the shortest day. Use this image, ‘Turning Point‘ to inspire your original response in … Continued
Responses to the Geelong Writers Ekphrastic Challenge #4 Entanglement (image by Jenny Funston) We invited everyone – members and non-members alike – to respond to the Entanglement image and we publish the best entries below, for your … Continued
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
‘Raw Sunset’ – Tom Adair Congratulations to those who submitted to the Geelong Writers ninth Ekphrastic Challenge for 2024. The image ‘Raw Sunset’ (by Tom Adair) provided a prompt for broad-ranging responses, all with a … Continued
Pressing by Jo Curtain We have published the works of the following 26 writers, and again we applaud the students from Mount Waverley Secondary College for their enthusiasm and fabulous contributions. Jan Price | Geoffrey Gaskill | Harry Roberts … Continued
In the spirit of John Clarke (aka Dylan Thompson) whose A Child’s Christmas in Warrnambool continues to delight, we invited writers to send us a parody of a Christmas story, poem, song or tradition. Listen to John Clarke read … Continued