Fancy yourself as a reader?

The Williamstown Literary Festival run a People's Choice Awards every year -- it's a great chance to showcase your work, put it up before an audience and let them judge you. Several of our students have won it in the past.

Details from the flyer are:

Two sessions will be held - the Prose Awards at 2.30 p.m. on Saturday 2 May and the Poetry Awards (poems should have a link to a nautical theme – the sea, ships, sailors, the bay) at 2.30 p.m. on Sunday 3 May.

Join a fabulous line-up of writers as they share the magic of their written words. Poets, novelists, short-story writers, song writers - anyone who loves to write - are invited to read. Others are invited to listen as the writers take us on their own personal journeys - thought-provoking, engaging, insightful, amusing - and then nominate the reader whose work they have most enjoyed. The People's Choice Awards will be given to the reader who gets the most votes at each session.

Please note: There is a limit of 4 minutes per reading, and readers are booked on a ‘first come, first served’ basis, so potential readers are urged to book their spot via the website . . .

Follow the link above to the website if you want to book yourself a spot. The word is that the prose section is almost full, so if you want to enter that you'd better get in quickly, but there's still plenty of room for poetry. So, if you've got something suitable, why not give it a go? Best part is that you can take your own cheer squad!

Tracey