{"id":6386,"date":"2025-04-10T14:44:01","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T04:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/?p=6386"},"modified":"2025-04-10T14:44:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T04:14:01","slug":"announcement-susan-hobson-and-kristin-murdock-win-the-march-wwwc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/2025\/04\/announcement-susan-hobson-and-kristin-murdock-win-the-march-wwwc\/","title":{"rendered":"ANNOUNCEMENT: Susan Hobson and Kristin Murdock win the March WWWC!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We\u2019re pleased to announce the winners of the March WWWC: Susan Hobson and Kristin Murdock. We couldn\u2019t decide between their entries, so this March 2025’s WWWC is a jointly awarded prize. Read Susan’s entry below, and find Kristin’s here<\/a>.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Susan’s \u2018Festival Madness\u2019 is an immersive ride through the waves of a crowded festival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Festival Madness<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Bursts of colour explode in the street before me. Bodies, all around, pressing, gyrating, cresting the rolling waves of sound. Flung voices and glitter-punched laughter float across the heavy heartbeat of music. And the smell \u2013 of alcohol and hazy cigarettes, yes, but mainly the smell of joy, of excitement, of energy let off the leash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I stand alone, wondering why I have come here, so far from my \u2018real\u2019 life. No part of me belongs here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The parade pounds past, pulsating. Somehow the heartbeat has become mine. Smiles stick to me, reel me in. I want to reach out, I want to touch the diamante headdress reaching up to grab at the night sky. I want to press my lips against the bravery of costume, lay my fingers on the revealing disguise. This is real<\/em>, the dancing arms gesticulate in a language older than speech. Follow me, follow me, <\/em>the feet pattern out in a mad tattoo, and my blood hums out an answer. But do I \u2013 could I ever \u2013 belong here?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My hands twitch, wanting to smoke, to drink, to eat, to hug, to hold, to skim a stranger\u2019s arm as though I had permission to do so. I find my feet have started to tap. My arms lift. We can be one. <\/em>The promise settles on my skin. What I was yesterday falls away. The world has shrunk to a Sydney street. The world has erupted, re-formed, become something new and extraordinary. I belong to this tribe. Not by rites or initiation but because I have chosen it, discovered a will to be free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tonight, I have submitted to the crowd. I have entered a state of festival madness and allowed myself to soar. There is no tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the second time that Susan has won the WWWC. <\/strong>
Read her first winning entry, ‘One Long, Lost Weekend’, here<\/a>. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We\u2019re pleased to announce the winners of the March WWWC: Susan Hobson and Kristin Murdock. We couldn\u2019t decide between their entries, so this March 2025’s WWWC is a jointly awarded prize. Read Susan’s entry below, and find Kristin’s here. Susan’s … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-for-fun"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4v1Of-1F0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6387,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6386\/revisions\/6387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}