During the latest lockdown, the libraries team at MLMC have offered to students and staff the opportunity to participate in a Flash Fiction Challenge.
The premise behind a creative challenge is to give students a short break from their school work, to switch gears for a little while and to unblock their imaginations. This in turn helps students to refocus back on to school-based tasks.
Each day an image is posted on Simon. The challenge is for students and teachers to write a story of 30 words or less based on the prompt. Students may enter as many short stories as they like. Prizes will be awarded for both students and staff at the end of lockdown and the winners and their stories will be announced in a future newsletter.
It has been great to see students from every year level participating in the challenge and the library staff are thoroughly enjoying reading all of the short stories.
Below are three of the image prompts that have been the most popular so far and some of the entries, with judging still to happen. Maybe you can challenge yourself and be creative. Try writing a short story of 30 words or less yourself.
As always, if there are any questions about the Fast Fiction Challenge or anything else that the library staff can help with, parents and guardians are asked to contact us via email to library@mlmc.vic.edu.au
