May Writing Contest
Cash Prizes Awarded: $100, $50, $50
In response to the pictures or the written quotes below, send in your poem, story or opinion piece and we will publish your submissions. Note: HWC Members only
Guidelines:
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Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.
Truman Capote
I had forgotten that time wasn't fixed like concrete but in fact was fluid as sand, or water. I had forgotten that even misery can end.
Joyce Carol Oates, I Am No One You Know
I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
Stephen Fry
It is difficult to get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.
William Carlos Williams
But maybe every life looked wonderful if all you saw was the photo albums.
Liane Moriarty, What Alice Forgot
You shall love your crooked neighbour, with your crooked heart
Wystan Hugh Auden
This morning, that morning, was honeycombed with personal restlessness
Thea Astley, The Acolyte
Italians are never punctual; the café, the convenient place to wait, absolves them from that. There is no question of hanging about, no looking lost and unwanted or even disreputable, as there is in hotel lobbies or the foyers of restaurants. One just sits and enjoys the scene, and waits.
Shirley Hazzard
Everything was normal and right. There were dishes in the sink and the sound of kids playing in the street and the trains passing smutty wind. Something had settled over the kitchen. Rose kept the colours inside the lines and all the patterns were proper, sensible and neat. Happiness. That's what it was.
Tim Winton, Cloudstreet
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