This volume of short-listed entries for the Ada Cambridge literary awards is an exciting new venture for the Williamstown Literary Festival, with an enlarged format and two new categories – the Young Adas Short Story and Graphic Short Story Prizes for authors aged from 15 to 18 years.
Designed to encourage western suburbs authors, this expanded suite of prizes comes with a new name – the Adas 2015 – to match the youthful spirit brought to the festival by a group too often overlooked in writing competitions for young people.
The anthology contains the short-listed and winning entries for each of the four prizes: nine stories for the Biographical Prose Prize, ten poems for the Poetry Prize, ten short-listed Young Adas Short Stories and the print edition features two Graphic Short Stories.
The adult stories engage us in the lives and consciousness of an extensive range of individuals, times and places – some familiar and close to home, others remote and exotic; some involving family relationships; others the experience of war, loss and displacement.
The Young Ada Short Stories are no less varies – ranging from experiences of adolescence to fantasy-horror to stories of war, dementia, childbirth. The Graphic Short Stories add a welcome variation of genre and tone to this volume, narrating their tales with humour and verve by wordless means, through skilful and effective use of visual imagery.
The poems too are indicative of the high calibre of poets working in the west. No less varied than the stories in style and subject matter, they give voice to diverse emotional states and situations. Some witty, others more sombre, all contain imagery, rhythms and insights that reverberate in the mind and imagination of the reader.
This volume of short-listed entries for the Ada Cambridge literary awards is an exciting new venture for the Williamstown Literary Festival, with an enlarged format and two new categories – the Young Adas Short Story and Graphic Short Story Prizes for authors aged from 15 to 18 years.
Designed to encourage western suburbs authors, this expanded suite of prizes comes with a new name – the Adas 2015 – to match the youthful spirit brought to the festival by a group too often overlooked in writing competitions for young people.
The anthology contains the short-listed and winning entries for each of the four prizes: nine stories for the Biographical Prose Prize, ten poems for the Poetry Prize, ten short-listed Young Adas Short Stories and the print edition features two Graphic Short Stories.
The adult stories engage us in the lives and consciousness of an extensive range of individuals, times and places – some familiar and close to home, others remote and exotic; some involving family relationships; others the experience of war, loss and displacement.
The Young Ada Short Stories are no less varies – ranging from experiences of adolescence to fantasy-horror to stories of war, dementia, childbirth. The Graphic Short Stories add a welcome variation of genre and tone to this volume, narrating their tales with humour and verve by wordless means, through skilful and effective use of visual imagery.
The poems too are indicative of the high calibre of poets working in the west. No less varied than the stories in style and subject matter, they give voice to diverse emotional states and situations. Some witty, others more sombre, all contain imagery, rhythms and insights that reverberate in the mind and imagination of the reader.
The Adas 2015: The Ada Cambridge Biographical Prose Prize, The Ada Cambridge Poetry Prize, The Young Adas Short Story Prize and Graphic Short Story Prize.
The Adas 2015: The Ada Cambridge Biographical Prose Prize, The Ada Cambridge Poetry Prize, The Young Adas Short Story Prize and Graphic Short Story Prize.
Product Details
| BN ID: | 2940151970129 |
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| Publisher: | Williamstown Literary Festival |
| Publication date: | 06/11/2015 |
| Sold by: | Smashwords |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 190 KB |