VU have a close association with the Williamstown Literary Festival as sponsors, but also through associations with various courses, ours being one of these. Each year we encourage our students to attend the festival, and indeed this forms part of our Industry Overview subject for our on-campus students. (We also run this subject online, but as many of the students who do it online are remote, we can't use this festival as part of our coursework for these students.) I know last year's students had a great time, and many will be returning again. Our Novel 2 class work as shortlisting judges for the Ada Cambridge competition, and past students have worked on placements with the festival committee or as volunteers. It's a great festival -- and I know feedback has often been about how friendly it is compared to some of the other festivals that are around.
For more information about the festival, including the program, have a look at their website -- you can download entries there for the Seagull Poetry Prize and for the Ada Cambridge Prize for short biographical writing. Entering competitions is a great way of beginning to build your writing CV -- you never know what you might win. Last year three of our students -- Lucia Nardo, Hugh Deacon and Denise Hughes -- either won prizes or were shortlisted (and published) in these competitions. (Remember, we have competition entry forms for both competitions in the office (10.248). Closing date is 1 March, so if you're interested, you'd better get onto it quickly.
Tracey Rolfe
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