Lili Wilkinson

Be! You are the winner of last week’s giveaway! Send me an email at liliATliliwilkinson.com with your address and I’ll post you your shiny copy of The Words We Found.

Hurrah!

Over at insideadog, Maureen Johnson is putting to the test the theory that all books are made better with a zombie.

And you’re invited! Transform a work of existing literature by adding a zombie. You might even win a prize…

Here’s examples from Maureen, Justine and Scott. And here’s mine, with apologies to Walt Whitman:

O ZOMBIE! my Zombie! our fearful trip is done; 

Our bodies weather’d every whack, the brains we sought are nom nom nom; 

Our lunch is near, the bells I hear, the people all screaming, 

While follow eyes the zombie reel, our onslaught grim and daring: 

But O brains! brains! brains!

O the bleeding drops of red, 

Where on the deck my dinner lies, 

Fallen cold and dead.

The Deal:

Remember Douglas Adams’ Meaning of Liff? Where he and John Lloyd took place names and gave them dictionary definitions?

Well I want you to do that with some of the places I’ve been to in the last fortnight (on tour with work). They are all actual places in regional Victoria. And the best two will win a free copy of Scatterheart.

An Example:

Yeungroon: (verb) The noise you make when you’ve eaten three vanilla slices in rapid succession. The girl went a funny greenish-yellow colour and let out a pained yeungroon.

Now it’s your turn. I offer the following placenames for your consideration:

Manangatang

Patchewallock

Boinka

Boigbeat

Teddywally West

Bollangum

Minyip

Wycheproof

Nyah

Boomahnoomoonah

(submit your entries in the comments. competition will be open until… i don’t know. a fortnight? we’ll see. you can enter as many times as you like. apologies to anyone who lives in these towns, or speaks the language that they are named in, and is offended)