ASCCA Competitions

This year's ASCCA Digital Photography and Creative Writing competitions have been announced. Entry forms will be posted on their web page (access via our LINKS at the top of this page) but are not there at the date of posting this notice (April 1).

The ASCCA 2011 DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION will once again offer the opportunity to submit six digital photographs – one only in each category. To have each of your members’ entries count towards the “Champion Club Award” please organise a volunteer to co-ordinate the collating and sending in of individual club members’ entries. There will also be an Award for the overall “Champion Digital Photographer”. The categories and topics are:

This is our fifth CREATIVE WRITING COMPETITION. We would like to encourage you to enter in 2011 – even if you have not thought about it before? We will acknowledge an overall “Writing Champion” for 2011.

SHORT STORY COMPETITION
Each Story must be 1,000 words or less and only one story for any or each of the following topics.

A Travel Tale – Your challenge here will be to decide which story to choose. Will your story be about what happened, where you went, what you saw, who you met, or how you felt.

The Door – Is there a particular door you would like to write about? Did Australia open its door to your family as migrants, or did your family arrive here as the result of a convict ancestor’s incarceration behind a goal door? Perhaps your door is the door of opportunity. Doors have been important as indicators of place in society and class differences. Did you have backdoor people and front door people come to your house when you were young?

Courage – Courage is not necessarily valour or extreme bravery in the widely accepted sense; it could describe the strength required to smile in adversity; step forward and welcome a stranger if you are shy; bend over to tie your shoe-lace if you are crippled with pain; start over after a devastating loss shatters your life ; or make the very first incision of that first operation as a surgeon.

POETRY – OPEN TOPIC We acknowledge that the best poetry comes from the heart and is often spontaneously inspired by events or feelings. So this year ASCCA has decided to invite you to write and submit up to three poems on any topic at all.