Flash! It's a Fiction Contest!
Congratulation to all of the featured writers and illustrators in the UNCW Randall Library Flash Fiction Contest!
The library released a prompt for the contest, and writers only had two weeks to create a 500 word max story. The theme this year was "The American Dream," and the only requirement other than the word count was that writers had to incorporate the UNCW Randall Library into their stories. A lot of people applied, but only 16 winners were chosen. The winners were judged by a panel of Creative Writing professors, and the top three stories were read out loud at the Flash Fiction Reveal last night, April 19, 2018.
Below is the front cover of the novel with the theme as the title. Also shown below is the back cover of the novel, with writers and illustrators credited for their work.
I participated in the contest as an illustrator. My Graphic Design course was commissioned by the library to illustrate the stories in a grayscale scheme.
"The Language of Liberty," written by Gabrielle DeSopo, tells the story of a young Hispanic boy who asks his grandfather why he only paints libraries and oceans. The grandfather replies that the ocean is what connects all of us together, including three of the libraries on the East Coast. The little boy then goes outside to play with his friends. The three children begin to draw what the Statue of Liberty looks like to them, based on their imagination of America - a woman with a cowboy hat on her head, a piece of hay sticking out of her mouth, and a pink dress.
Below is my own illustrated version of how those kids drew the Statue of Liberty in chalk. I used Adobe Illustrator to digitally draw each of the children and the background.
The library released a prompt for the contest, and writers only had two weeks to create a 500 word max story. The theme this year was "The American Dream," and the only requirement other than the word count was that writers had to incorporate the UNCW Randall Library into their stories. A lot of people applied, but only 16 winners were chosen. The winners were judged by a panel of Creative Writing professors, and the top three stories were read out loud at the Flash Fiction Reveal last night, April 19, 2018.
Below is the front cover of the novel with the theme as the title. Also shown below is the back cover of the novel, with writers and illustrators credited for their work.
I participated in the contest as an illustrator. My Graphic Design course was commissioned by the library to illustrate the stories in a grayscale scheme.
"The Language of Liberty," written by Gabrielle DeSopo, tells the story of a young Hispanic boy who asks his grandfather why he only paints libraries and oceans. The grandfather replies that the ocean is what connects all of us together, including three of the libraries on the East Coast. The little boy then goes outside to play with his friends. The three children begin to draw what the Statue of Liberty looks like to them, based on their imagination of America - a woman with a cowboy hat on her head, a piece of hay sticking out of her mouth, and a pink dress.
Below is my own illustrated version of how those kids drew the Statue of Liberty in chalk. I used Adobe Illustrator to digitally draw each of the children and the background.
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