The competition theme is ‘community.’
Here are a few ideas to get you started…(or if you prefer, ignore these and find your own starting point).
There are many different kinds of community.
Towns, countries, villages.
Libraries, community halls, places of worship, waiting rooms, workplaces.
Choirs, music groups, orchestras, gyms, rambling groups.
And…..
Animals and other creatures often live in communities too.
You could find inspiration in an ants’ nest, a beehive, a field full of sheep, or a rookery.
Do you belong to a community you’d like to celebrate?
You could write a praise poem for your community, or write about someone you consider to be ‘the heart of the community’
An event that revived your belief in ‘community’, or one that made you question it.
During the pandemic, we all had to live more separate lives.
What did you miss most about the life of your community?
Coming back to ‘normal’ life afterwards, what was it like to experience all that you’d missed, as if for the first time?
Perhaps pick one particularly happy or significant reunion.
Communities change all the time – write about your own community from the point of view of someone in the year 2050. Or in the year 1850.
Utopias are ideal communities: dystopias are the opposite – communities that have gone horribly wrong.
You could write the rules for your own fantasy Utopia, or how to survive in a dystopia.
