If you’ve published digital works and need a little bit of recognition - well, here’s your opportunity and you can earn a nice sum of money, into the bargain.  The Australian Writers Centre is offering for the fourth year in a row, their Woollahra Digital Literary Prize for published works in a digital form.  Of course, it can’t be just any old thing - we are talking e pub and online articles here. 

The competition gives you three categories to enter: Non-Fiction, Fiction and Flash/Short Fiction.  The collective prize money sits at Au $7000.  Both Fiction & Non-Fiction offer $3000 each, while Flash/Short Fiction can put a nice $1,000 in your pocket. 

You will have to spin a good yarn for your winnings and be able to write up to 80,000 words for Fiction and Non-fiction and you can get away with 100~3000 words for the short fiction.
If you think this could be something that your might like to enter, get in fast as entries close March 9th, 2020.

See Woollahara Council Website to enter.  Happy writing!

National story telling week kicks off January 27th~3rd of February, 2018.  Whether you're in the UK or Australia - Grab a book and tell a story!  Read up on how things go down at the Society for Storytelling in the UK.

​Check out Sketa's top selling ELK Publishing Children's books on Amazon. There are some great little keepers for everybody's bookshelf.   

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There have been some wonderful books produced over the years, but none so well created and thought out as The Gift of the Snowflake written by Timothy McMullen.

The book itself explores the reasons behind making each and everyone of us unique down to the very letter. It sets aside indifference and allows the reader to question the existence of mankind and all God’s creations.

The use of illustration is unique, fresh and everlasting, which superbly compliments the message being explored by the author.

This is a great book for little people to hold - produced on A4 horizontal format, readers will turn each page with ease and delight in the colourful watercolor treatment. This is a keeper; a book to hand down to the grandkids and a story to be read not just on the odd rainy day. :)

Asia is a wealth of knowledge, but not just for cultural  or heritage-oriented things.  Literature is one of the oldest loved forms of relaxation in Asia (apart from the furthering of education) and finding a good book to settle down with during the monsoon season, is a must.  Great authors can be found all over Asia, they are not restricted to just Korea, so you need to open you mind and prepare to be amazed at the depth of artistic and literary abilities these authors possess. 

Here are only ten of the best highlighted by the Tribune.  Don't forget to get yourself at least one book; well, maybe two...three and you'll be on a roll.  :) 

​A wrinkle in time is a lovely book by Madeleine L'Engle that is making huge waves in the kindle market of publishing.  It's well worth your time and consideration for your next bedtime read!  You'll find it at Amazon. Enjoy!

Making a living for one's writing is sometimes not the easiest thing to do. For some writers in history, they have had to learn to juggle their love of writing with another job - sometimes two or even three.  Becoming a writer and going done the path of locking oneself in a room, for hours on end or banishing oneself away from the rest of the world - for weeks at time in some distant, obscure country so as to churn out a best selling novel - is often required and can result in the production of 'a hit!' 

But... being realistic, writing takes time and delivering 'a hit' in today's world takes skill, craftsmanship and downright luck - for many of us.  So let's step back in time and take a look at how some of the best writers delivered results.  Camilla Nelson from the University of Notre Dame in Australia spells it out.

Read up on the 2018 Caldecott Medal for the best illustrated children's book, the Newbery Medal winners and the Childen's Choice Book Award winners on Amazon.  There are some awesome delights to take your heart by storm.

It is not every day that esteemed authors visit Seoul, but from May 23-25, 2017, if you're in the vicinity of the Kyobo Convention Hall in Gwanghwamun, central Seoul, then pop into the forum 'Literature and Its Readership in the Changing World'. 

Hosted every five years by Daesan Foundation and Arts Council Korea,  the Seoul International Forum for Literature (SIFL), you'll get to see, listen and mull over the thoughts of over fifty great authors from Korea, and thirteen esteemed writers~scientists from overseas.    

Of course, the event is in delivered in both Korean and English and will be the highlight of your literary calendar.  So, you need to be there.  Check out all the details, register at seoulforum.org and then book your plane ticket!  Enjoy!

We all know that books aren't just books and that for many of us, they are the inspiration form the Gods.  Well not really, but they tend to mean quite a lot to us over the years, especially if we have grown up with them as kids.  So check out these great lessons you can learn from the collection of books found by Russell Working.