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My Brother Jack Awards 2022

July 2022

The MBJ award is a literary prize that our local Council awards to locals of all age groups who live or work in the area. Every year, they award prizes for short story and poetry categories and every year, I make some excuse not to submit an entry.

This morning, over a cup of coffee and flipping through the local paper, I see it again.

Should I write something?

I have this idea to write about a period of time in our local history during World War 2 on our street. The lands were orchards and on our street was an important receiving station doing secret work for the Allies in the Pacific. Maybe I can write a short story about that?

I’ve not written fiction since 1996.

Should I? Shouldn’t I? 🤔