“For sale: baby shoes, never worn.”
That is the entirety of a dramatic and impactful six-word story – regularly referred to as flash fiction – which is attributed to gifted novelist and journalist Ernest Hemingway.
The remarkable but dark work has inspired a popular weekly feature in a national newspaper which invites readers to contribute six-word stories of their own in order to won a prize but it has also been adopted by the team at Listowel Writers’ Week.
As part of its Young Adult BookFest promotion, the festival organisers invited young people to contribute six-word stories of their own and, this year, one of the prizewinners was from Killarney.
Aimee Myers, a transition year student at St Brigid’s Secondary School impressed the adjudicators with her well thought-out entry which read: “Time is a concept. Tick tock.”
All of Aimee’s fellow TY students from her school attended the innovative BookFest which is organised exclusively for teenagers.
The one-day festival is for young people who are curious about the written word as well as those who may dislike reading but are open to changing their mind.
The event in Listowel gives them an opportunity to meet with wordsmiths, poets and inspirational speakers and among those who have contributed to the initiative are writer and broadcaster Stefanie Preissner, holocaust survivor and author Tomi Reichental and Cork campaigner Joanna O’Riordan.
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