Fellowship of Australian Writers NSW Inc.Closing date: 23 February 2025
Stringybark Stories is proud to announce its 44th short story competition since 2010. Stringybark Publishing, and authors Graeme Simsion and Anne Buist are proud to sponsor the Stringybark Open Themed Short Story Award 2025.
This is their flagship short story award.
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Lesley Jean Irvine
The author says, “This is a poetic account of my search for meaning, to finding God’s love, and my subsequent faith journey. God’s voice especially speaks to me in the beauty, mystery and wonder of nature. The poems are enhanced by my photos and related scriptures.”
Published December 2024,
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Poems by Julie Thorndyke
” . . . the immensity of the open space, the depth of the canyon, the light and air all around—unlike the sea, nothing to provide buoyancy, just a void into which a body might fall and never be found.”
Experience the unique atmosphere and creative solitude of Julie Thorndyke’s month-long winter writing residency at Mount Wilson,
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Closing date Thursday 27 February 2025
The Next Generation Short Story Awards, currently in its second year, is a not-for-profit international awards program for authors of short stories. The Short Story Awards is now accepting entries of short stories and poems in English (5000 words or less) for the 2025 awards program in 30+ categories.
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Entries close February 14, 2025
The prize is for short stories up to 3,000 words having an island, or island-resonant, theme.
The winning entry receives a cash prize of $500 and all finalists’ stories will appear in the Forty South Short Story Anthology 2025.
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Closing date February 13, 2025
The Next Generation Indie Book Awards, the most exciting and rewarding book awards program open to independent publishers and authors worldwide, is currently accepting entries written in English and released in 2023, 2024 or 2025 or with a 2023,
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The Not Quite Write Prize challenges writers to break the writing ‘rules’ while still telling a compelling 500-word story.
Participants have 60 hours to write up to 500 words of Flash Fiction in response to two prompts and one anti-prompt.
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The FAW received this invitation from Nataliia Shknieieva regarding an event in Sydney on 21 November 2024…
My name is Nataliia Shknieieva and I’m Ukrainian leaving in Sydney. I invite members and friends of the FAW NSW to the Heartlands event our Sydney community and Linda Melnychuk Gough (penname Lyn McFarlane) is organising.
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The FAW 2024 Rae Alison Cerhan Australiana Ballad competition closed to new entries at 6.00pm AEDT Thursday 31 October 2024.
Judging is now under way and prizes will be awarded at a venue and date to be advised.
Thank you to those people who entered their poem for consideration.
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The FAW 2024 Ernestine Hill Australian Country themed short story competition closed to new entries at 6.00pm AEDT Thursday 31 October 2024.
Judging is now under way and the award will be announced at a venue and date to be advised.
Thank you to those people who entered their story for consideration.
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Opens: Midday 18 October 2024; Closes: Midnight 20 October 2024 AEDT
The Not Quite Write Prize for Flash Fiction challenges writers to create an original piece of fiction based on two typical writing prompts plus one anti-prompt. What’s an anti-prompt? It’s a call to break a specific rule of writing.
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Entries for the 2024 FAW Jean Stone Poetry Competition closed at 6:00pm Saturday 31 August.
Judging is now under way. The judge’s report and winner’s name will be emailed to all contestants after 31st October. 2024.
Thank you to all those people who submitted their poems for consideration.
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Entries for the 2024 FAW Hilarie Lindsay Poetry Competition for Australian School Students closed at 6:00pm Saturday 31st August.
Judging is now under way. Winners in each section will be notified prior to 31st October. There will be no individual appraisals.
Thank you to all those students who submitted their poems for consideration.
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Closing date 29 September 2024
Stringybark Stories is proud to announce its 43rd short story competition since 2010. The Stringybark ‘Times Past’ Story Award 2024 is now accepting entries. This is their sixth historical fiction competition exploring Australian history. The requirements for this competition are that your entry must be:
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Closing Date 31 Oct 2024
Genre: Humorous short stories up to 2,500 words.
Prizes for first, second and third place.
Certificates for highly commended and commended stories.
Entry fee $10 per story.
See website for further information: www.bestoftimes.com.au
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FLASH FICTION
1st place: ‘Heading Off’ David Brelsford
2nd place: ‘Walking to the Strand’ Thom. James
Highly Commended: ‘The Whisper of Trees’ Dianne Morton
Highly Commended: ‘An Ordinary Day’ Karen Payne
Commended: ‘Voices’ Christabel Strehle
Commended: ‘Farewell Francesca’ Robyn Knibb
PHILIPPA HOLLAND AWARD FOR POETRY
1st Place: ‘Two Canticles’ Colleen Keating
2nd Place: ‘Breathe…’ David Campbell
Highly Commended: ‘ungraspable’ Colleen Keating
Highly Commended: ‘Languid Ribbons’ David Terelinck
Highly Commended: ‘Embarking on a Poet’s Lighthouse Residency’ Ronald Atilano
Highly Commended: ‘Cloud Reading’ Richenda Rudman
Commended: ‘The Human Heart is 73% Water’ David Terelinck
Commended: ‘No Drone’ Ronald Atilano
ALAN RUSSELL AWARD FOR MEMOIR
1st place: ‘Peril Beyond the Moment’ Karen Payne
2nd place: ‘Tough’ Cheryl Lockwood
SHORT STORY
First Place: ‘The Seat at Table Rock’ David Campbell
Second Place: ‘The Gift’ Mike Woodhouse
Highly Commended: ‘Blind Faith’ Gayle Neighbour
Highly Commended: ‘The Driving Lesson’ Ivy Jacqueline Higgs
|Highly Commended: ‘Lunch Meeting’ Tania Park
Commended: ‘The Aroma of Coffee’ David Brelsford
Commended: ‘Children Know Best’ Tania Park
Commended: ‘On Second Thoughts’ Robyn Knibb.
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