Hey you, Vic stu­dent! Should­n’t you be busy study­ing instead of read­ing blogs? Well fine, if you’re look­ing for ways to occu­py your brain, Vic Books has a sug­ges­tion for you

Vic­books is run­ning a duo of writ­ing com­pe­ti­tions, one for Poet­ry and the oth­er for Short Sto­ries. We want to see what Vic­to­ria under­grad­u­ate stu­dents are capa­ble of when they delve into poet­ry instead of eco­nom­ics, dip into fic­tion rather than his­to­ry (wait… was that irony?) and draw ful­ly on their tal­ents and imag­i­na­tion.

The select­ed win­ner in each cat­e­go­ry will receive over $200 in Book Tokens, plus a pile of select­ed books from our excel­lent stock. The win­ners will also be pub­lished in the stu­dent paper Salient, on the vic­books web­site and on our blog. There are no entry fees and all the details are on our web­site.

Of course, if you’re not a Vic under­grad, you can always tell us a sto­ry instead. Have at it in our com­ments sec­tion.