Wow us with your letter to win a book

WE love words, here at the Cairns Post.

And we know many of you do too, judging by our growing audience across print and online.

We get a great amount of feedback and contributions from readers, largely in the form of letters to the editor.

And to encourage it further, we today launch a Letter of the Week competition. We’ve teamed up with sponsor HarperCollins to reward the best letter writer each week with a brand new book.

The competition will run weekly. All letters received between Saturday and Thursday each week will be eligible for the prize.

This month’s book prize is The Woman in the Window by AJ Finn. It debuted at No.1 on the NYT bestseller list in the US and is a gripping psychological thriller about an agoraphobic woman who believes she has witnessed a horrible crime in a neighbouring house. So how do you win it? Turn to the letters page on Page 39.

And what will constitute the criteria for the letter of the week? It could be a number of things.

Great opinion on a controversial issue; humour; excellent technical writing or just someone opening themselves up with raw personal feelings. It’s subjective, like much of what we do.

So get writing, as it’s now even more worthwhile. Details on letters page – page 39