© Bridget Whelan
If you want to use any of this material contact me and there is a very good chance I will say YES.
However, if you just cut and paste into your own blog or whatever and pass it off as your own then there's a very good chance I will find out. Don't fall into the trap of thinking the internet is so vast and expanding so fast (note the fancy internal rhyme)] that no one will know.
Oh there is a LOT of this in my local area… including a competition for all of Brisbane, in which the only winners were up and coming journalism students – across an entire population. People were spitting furious.
Hmm, so they were encouraging entries from far and wide but only wanted a certain distict “type” to win…can I ask was there an entry fee?
No, there was no entry fee, but you had to print eight, double-spaced copies of your work (which was expected to be novella sized, not a quick story) and then post it. Postage and ink in Australia is $$$$$ and there were no email submissions, so everyone was mad.