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THE STAGE was set, curtains ready to be drawn and talent in the wings when a pandemic shut down this year\u2019s Queenscliffe Literary Festival (QLF).
\nFestival president Pauline Nunan said the program, running across three weekends in May (8-24), featured a high calibre of authors and despite the event\u2019s cancellation, the festival carried on with their writing competition.
\n\u201cWhile the literary festival itself had to be cancelled, the micro-fiction competition had already attracted quite a deal of interest, so the QLF committee decided to proceed.
\n\u201cThe challenge was set for the entrants to write a story in exactly 50 words; Dani Netherclift from Grovedale, Joe Novella from Mornington and Christine Gordon of Carlton were announced the winners.\u201d
\nMs Nunan said the winning writers each received a book pack from the QLF\u2019s 2020 Truth or Dare program, with the competition attracting widespread interest from across Victoria.
\n\u201cThere were entries of many varied genres showing that the micro-fiction challenge can be used by any writer. We received 55 entries from 42 writers, ensuring the competition will be on again for next year\u2019s festival.\u201d
\nAfter dealing with the initial disappointment of the QLF cancellation, Ms Nunan said the team has well and truly set their sights on next year\u2019s event.
\n\u201cThe launch night with renowned Australian journalist Tony Jones on March 5 was such a success, everyone was looking forward to the festival so we were obviously disappointed.
\n\u201cWe\u2019ve got a great committee and programmer and I\u2019m confident we\u2019ll be back, running bigger and better next year. We\u2019re really grateful that the majority of our sponsors have stuck with us and have left their sponsorship money with us.\u201d
\nThe QLF has been running a Facebook Book Club during the pandemic, reviewing a book each week that would have featured at the festival.
\nIf you would like to read the micro-fiction entrants pieces or follow the book club, go to Facebook, Twitter and Instagram and search \u201cQLF\u201d, or head to queenscliffeliteraryfestival.com.au<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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