writing contest

Early Childhood

Apologies for another late shortlist announcement. I’m pretty sure I’ve crammed more into my life lately than I ever crammed into the nappy bag for my twins, but I eventually get all my ducks in a row and get to everything I need to, late or not. Hopefully you’ve all kept busy and haven’t been holding your breath too long for this short list, or we’ll have a lot less entrants in the next comp.

Dad jokes aside, the quality of entrants get’s better and better every round, so our job has been a lot harder. On the upside it means that we’re going to have an outstanding anthology to release at the end of it all. Just 3 more rounds after this one, with round 4 starting soon. So get those creative juices flowing and think about what mischievous tales you can tell about teens.

Now for the big news. The shortlist for round 3 of this series, of the Mum Life Stories Micro Fiction Writing Competition.

Writers were asked to write a story of 500 words or less around the theme ‘Early Childhood’. They could interpret it any way they saw fit as long as it was in narrative form. I’m happy to say that 99% of submissions stuck to these guidelines and made reading for us judges, a pleasurable experience.

Infancy

So in typical #mumlife fashion, life happened and I’m now ‘un’-fashionably late with this shortlist announcement. How fitting though that a competition about the busy and fulfilling lives we lead as mothers, is often running behind schedule because the organiser is overcome by mum life?

Because I’m always trying to find new words to express myself, I’m going to say that I believe it is a felicitous concept to have mothers running and judging such a competition, for who else can relate to the beautiful chaotic mess that provides inspiration for our mum life stories? But, I understand that it is most uncomfortable to be kept waiting for competition results when your heart and soul are invested, or when you’re eager to read some insightful, inspirational new stories by gifted writers. So without further blithering…okay maybe just a little more blithering, I will reveal the shortlist for round 2 of this series, of the Mum Life Stories Micro Fiction Writing Competition.

Writers were asked to write a story of 500 words or less around the theme ‘Infancy’. It could be interpreted any way they saw fit as long as it was in narrative form. I’m happy to say that 99% of submissions stuck to these guidelines and made reading for us judges, a pleasurable experience.