Writing Challenge

Remember our February/March writing challenge? We imagined that someone in his or her final year of school is tempted to forego the path laid out by a parent and instead join the circus. The [...]

All About Writing’s latest writing challenge offers the winner a literary assessment on 5000 words of writing worth R 2750 or a voucher to the same value to use on one (or more) of our courses or [...]

What draws us to write about our travels? What is it about travel writing that is so beguiling? We, at All About Writing, receive almost daily queries from members of our community who hope to [...]

All About Writing’s latest writing challenge offers the winner a literary assessment on 5000 words of writing worth R 2750 or a voucher to the same value to use on one (or more) of our courses or [...]

The Wigtown writing challenge is the culmination, for me, of two and a half years of anticipation. That’s how long Trish and I had to wait to take up our place as stewards of Booktown’s Open [...]

All About Writing’s latest writing challenge offers the winner a literary assessment on 5000 words of writing worth R 2750. Writing Challenge: Describe a seaside holiday house, from the [...]

There were loads of entries for the October-November writing challenge. If you remember, we challenged you to “describe your bedroom in such a way as to give us an insight into who you are. Try [...]

It’s been a fun and creative fortnight running The Open Book book shop in Wigtown, Scotland’s National Book Town. Our imaginations have run riot. See what you can do with yours and [...]

  Cliffhangers are tricky things. They’re not quite climaxes because they have to withhold some vital outcome. So if your crew of bomb disposal experts are gathered round a ticking bomb, and [...]

All About Writing’s latest writing challenge offers the winner a literary assessment on 5000 words of writing worth R 2750. Here’s the challenge: Describe your bedroom in such a way as to [...]

Some excellent responses to our June/July challenge. Remember, we asked you to play devil’s advocate with regard to some belief you hold dear, and write a conversation in which a character argues [...]

All About Writing’s latest writing challenge offers the winner a literary assessment on 5000 words of writing worth R 2750. Here’s the challenge: Cliff-hangers So you could think Dan Brown, at [...]