Blacktown Mayoral Creative Writing Prize Win

*GOOD NEWS KLAXON*
I attended the Blacktown Mayoral Creative Writing Prize ceremony last night and came away with the chocolates (an Antipodean way of saying I won) for short story in the adult category (that’s two years in a row).
I was humbled by the win but more so I was very chuffed for the judges’ comments.
I bumped into fellow WestWords Academian, Jasmyne, who won for poetry in the adult category, and we posed like we were at a primary school assembly with our certificates. This came about because last year at the WestWords Living Stories ceremony, there were a few of us from the Academy who had picked up prizes, so we stood like primary school students and had a good laugh.
In the photo I am wearing my new t-shirt from Solkyri (this is my aim as a writer: to wear my fave band t-shirt/merch in photo ops and spread the good word).

In the words of Australian writer, Nigel Featherstone, I have 24 hours to celebrate the success, then it’s back to work. And there is work to be done.