So Bad, it's good
The NVWG bad writing competition
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COMING SOON! THE SO BAD, IT'S GOOD E-BOOK
This will be published at end of September, 2018.
Nambucca Valley Writers Group is pleased to announce the winners of the
So Bad, It's Good writing competition.
A word or two from our President Roby Aiken about the entries:
Thanks you to everyone who entered the Nambucca Valley Writers Group's Bad Writing Competition.
There were over 100 entries and some fantastic stories, some of them way too good to be considered bad writing. The concept was embraced by many and unfortunately lost on some. The winners and honourable mentions featured twisted humour, classic cliches, and horribly hilarious metaphors, amongst other things. Each one had a clear beginning, middle, and end, and each embraced the brief of "so bad it's good". And they were funny, as all good bad writing should be, sending our band of judges into gales of laughter.
We present the top three to you, and hope you get a laugh too.
Congratulations to those winners.
1st Prize: The Thirsty Gunslinger by Kerryn Pholi
2nd Prize: Dinner Date by Janine Campbell
3rd Prize: Knight of Cariolina by Danielo Markiovitz
Top 3 Stories can be read here
Highly Commended
A Happy Ending (for Some) - Heather Mackenzie
Brangelo: The Definitive Love Story - Robin Hammond
The Journey - Margot Olgilvie
Morning Visitor - Lacey Sawtell
The Stoic (K)Night - Sarah McDonnell
Murder Street - Kerryn Pholi
Hot as Hell - Alisa Bryce
Another 20 entries have been selected for the e-book publication:
Ah yes Patricia - Gregory Galvin
Alarming - Christopher Bowman
Bogan Boyfriend - Lou Pollard
Eating Mango Sandwiches in Nigeria - C.A. Broadribb
Full of Awe - Awful - Elyssa Gluyas
Kaitlyn - JM Cochrane
Look Inside - Melanie Rees
Making S'Mores - JM Cochrane
Moist - Kiran Eswaran
No Apples for Atom - Emma Driver
Sally the Cat - Georgie Hicks
Stepbogan, My Love - Sasha Walsey
The Bad Marriage and the Good Luck - Xanthe Levi Littlemore
The Heart Stabber - Cat Sole
The Incredibly Perfect Stranger - Lisa Reily
The Surf - Erin Moss
The Truly Awful Night of Suffering - Jacqueline Winn
Tragically Marianne - Naomi Fahey
Wasting Time - Rhys Owen
What a Date - Thomas Woodland
COMING SOON! THE SO BAD, IT'S GOOD E-BOOK
This will be published at end of September, 2018.
Nambucca Valley Writers Group is pleased to announce the winners of the
So Bad, It's Good writing competition.
A word or two from our President Roby Aiken about the entries:
Thanks you to everyone who entered the Nambucca Valley Writers Group's Bad Writing Competition.
There were over 100 entries and some fantastic stories, some of them way too good to be considered bad writing. The concept was embraced by many and unfortunately lost on some. The winners and honourable mentions featured twisted humour, classic cliches, and horribly hilarious metaphors, amongst other things. Each one had a clear beginning, middle, and end, and each embraced the brief of "so bad it's good". And they were funny, as all good bad writing should be, sending our band of judges into gales of laughter.
We present the top three to you, and hope you get a laugh too.
Congratulations to those winners.
1st Prize: The Thirsty Gunslinger by Kerryn Pholi
2nd Prize: Dinner Date by Janine Campbell
3rd Prize: Knight of Cariolina by Danielo Markiovitz
Top 3 Stories can be read here
Highly Commended
A Happy Ending (for Some) - Heather Mackenzie
Brangelo: The Definitive Love Story - Robin Hammond
The Journey - Margot Olgilvie
Morning Visitor - Lacey Sawtell
The Stoic (K)Night - Sarah McDonnell
Murder Street - Kerryn Pholi
Hot as Hell - Alisa Bryce
Another 20 entries have been selected for the e-book publication:
Ah yes Patricia - Gregory Galvin
Alarming - Christopher Bowman
Bogan Boyfriend - Lou Pollard
Eating Mango Sandwiches in Nigeria - C.A. Broadribb
Full of Awe - Awful - Elyssa Gluyas
Kaitlyn - JM Cochrane
Look Inside - Melanie Rees
Making S'Mores - JM Cochrane
Moist - Kiran Eswaran
No Apples for Atom - Emma Driver
Sally the Cat - Georgie Hicks
Stepbogan, My Love - Sasha Walsey
The Bad Marriage and the Good Luck - Xanthe Levi Littlemore
The Heart Stabber - Cat Sole
The Incredibly Perfect Stranger - Lisa Reily
The Surf - Erin Moss
The Truly Awful Night of Suffering - Jacqueline Winn
Tragically Marianne - Naomi Fahey
Wasting Time - Rhys Owen
What a Date - Thomas Woodland
Terms & Conditions
- Cost to enter: $10 (AU)
- Payment MUST be made by Pay Pal: [email protected]
- Submissions should be emailed to: [email protected]
- Contestants may enter as many times as they wish and $10 must be paid for each entry
- Maximum number of words 500
- All entries must be submitted as a .rtf email attachment
- The email (not the submission) should list: Name of author, Title/s of entry, Word count/s Contact Details, Pay Pal Receipt Number & email address
- Each page should be numbered with the title in a header. Author details must not appear on these pages
- Entries should be in Times New Roman at 12 point double spaced
- Entries should not have won any other competition at the time of entry and should not have been published in any form
- Entries must be the original work of the author and submission acknowledges that information relating to this competition has been read, that it is understood, and all conditions are met
- Competition opens 1 January and closes midnight 28 February 2018
- The three winners and the long list that will be included in the e-book will be notified 1 April 2018
- All authors included in the e-book will receive a free copy
- Copyright remains with the author with first publication rights to Nambucca Valley Writers Group
- Proceeds from e-book sales will be for the benefit of Nambucca Valley Writers Group
- Failure to abide by the rules will result in an entry being rejected without refund
- Entries will be judged by Nambucca Valley Writers Group anonymously
- Members of the Nambucca Valley Writers Group are ineligible to enter.
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