Thank You by Jenny Toune
Thank you for entering our competition. We had over eight hundred entities enter, and the standard was extremely high. Define high, you say. How low can you go? Unfortunately, your story was not selected. It was a nonentity. Why don’t you check out the courses we have on offer as a costly consolation prize?
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Jenny is an emerging Australian writer, performer, tap dancer and sometime drummer. Previous work has appeared in Award Winning Australian Writing; Australian Poetry Journal; Offset Creative Arts Anthology; the Max Harris Poetry Award Anthology. She was the first tap-dancing poet to appear at Melbourne’s Overload Poetry Festival, and has since performed at the Adelaide Fringe Festival. She is co-author of the verse novel Shedding Sin,Lady Lazarus Press, Florida, 2013, and her poetry chapbook Some Call it Abuse was published by Underground Books, New York, in 2016.
Her most memorable moment was sharing the stage of the Duke Theatre, Forty Second Street, with the legendary Ernest “Brownie” Brown at the New York City Tap Festival.