Below, in a month of Writing to Inspire firsts, are the details of our ‘First Line’ Short Story competition, as officially launch yesterday.
When I was designing this competition, I didn’t want it to be the same as everybody else’s; I wanted it to

It’s an exciting week here in my office. In fact there are so many fun things falling into place that I almost don’t know what to tell you about first.

I called into my friends at Collins Books in Whitfords City yesterday (who now stock my ‘I Want to Write …’ book and Autobiography Trigger Questions, by the way) and found out about a great competition being run by Text Publishing.

Great, that is, if your children’s or young adult book is over 25,000 words – mine isn’t, DARN!

It’s not very often that we hear of a writing competition that is free to enter and that gives actual monetary prizes. However, that is exactly