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Mini-Comic Competition:w00t:The comics segment of Project Educate is here!:w00t:
To celebrate, we're hosting a competition of mini proportions! How do you enter? Read on!
How to make a mini-comic:
Stuff you'll need:
A pen
A pair of scissors
A piece of A4 paper
An internet connection that allows you to watch a YouTube video.
Got all that? Excellent! The original idea for how to make a mini-zine (or in our case, comic) is probably as old as the hills, but for a really great, somewhat quirky, training video in the art of making a mini-comic, please head to this YouTube video and let 'SamProof' sort you out.
All done? Great! Now you know the basics of how to
The Ugly Contest:postit:The Ugly Contest::postit:
They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Well, we want you to kick some dirt into the eye of anyone reading your piece of poetry or prose!
Get Your Ugly On
This competition is open to all writers who feel they’ve got a little bit of ugly in them. Y’see, beauty is everywhere. It’s in the notes of a songbird, the fire of a sunrise, or the curves of a lady (or man, whichever is your interest). We don’t want any of that rubbish. We want to see the places where the cracks open up, where the make-up comes off and the true image is seen*. We want to get a feel for the streets through the
TELL ME A LIEEverybody lies, sometime.
We lie to ourselves and to each other. We tell big lies, small lies, white lies, bald-faced lies and fibs, lies-by-omission, tall tales and shaggy dog stories. We over- and underplay the facts, pretend, obfuscate, scam and swindle. We pull each other’s legs - and the wool over other folks’ eyes - and people are not always what they seem.
:bulletpurple: #LitFFS is challenging poets and prose writers to lie to us. Your poem or story can be about any kind of lie, so long as it’s creative! Our judges want to be horn-swaggled, flim-flammed, impressed and shocked by the deviousness.
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