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.