Competition closes 6.00pm Sunday 1st June 2025.
The NSW Dept of Communities and Justice and FAW are conducting a Short Story Competition. The Top 100 stories will be published in Seniors Stories Volume 11 and NSW Seniors Card Membership,
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Entry Form: Seniors Card Short Story Competition 2025
Entries close at 6.00pm Sunday 1st June 2025.
Maximum 1,000 words. Theme: ‘THEN and NOW’.
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Next Generation Short Story Writing Opportunity
Closing date Thursday 26 February 2026
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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Not Quite Write Prize for Flash Fiction 2025
- Opens: Midday 25 July 2025
- Closes: Midnight 27 July 2025
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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ACU Poetry Prize calls for new works about Belonging
Closing date: 01 June 2025
Entries are open for Australia’s richest prize for a single poem, where Australia’s top and emerging poets compete for $18,750 in prize money, with the first prize winner receiving $10,000. The ACU Prize for Poetry is calling for new poems on the theme of Belonging,
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Not Quite Write Prize for FLESH Fiction
(Erotic fiction competition)
Closing date: 24 August 2025
Open for submissions until Midnight (end of day) 24 August 2025 AEST.
Prizes:
Total prize pool of AU$1,000 plus a trophy for first place and a range of “spicy” prizes from our sponsors.
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Shanghaied
GREG MUTTON.
It has been said that our memories are what makes us who we are. So, who are we if we lose all our memories?
Two people wake up not knowing who they are, where they are or how they got there.
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Secrets in The Lakes
SAL GALLAHER.
Mandy Reid, a successful yet emotionally scarred writer from L.A., returns to her hometown of Lake Haven after the untimely death of a close friend. Reconnecting with old friends, particularly the grieving widow Emma, Mandy gets entangled in the town’s web of dramas and buried secrets.
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Small Epiphanies
DAVID TERELINCK.
A collection of poems that observes and records day-to-day life, and our interaction within nature and the universe. These poems of loss, grief, love, laughter, and hope are infused with small discoveries, insights, and moments of awareness around everyday situations and people,
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Entry Form: 2025 Marjorie Barnard Short Story Award
ENTRIES CLOSE 6:00pm Sunday 31 August 2025
Failure to comply with these Conditions will mean disqualification.
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Conditions: 2025 Marjorie Barnard Short Story Award
Closing date: 31 August 2025
CONDITIONS OF ENTRY
- The Award is for Short Stories up to 3000 words.
- Entrants must be permanent residents of Australia.
- Submitted entries must not have previously been published,
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Entry Form: 2025 Hilarie Lindsay Short Story Competition
For Australian School Students
ENTRIES CLOSE at 6:00pm Sunday 31 August 2025
SECTION 1: Years 10, 11 & 12up to 2500 words Prize $150SECTION 2: Years 7, 8 & 9up to 2500 wordsPrize $125SECTION 3: Years 5 & 6up to 1500 wordsPrize $100SECTION 4: Year 4 &…
Conditions: 2025 Hilarie Lindsay Short Story Competition
For Australian School Students
Closing date: 31 August 2025
Entries are sought in the following categories:
SECTION 1: Years 10, 11 & 12 up to 2500 words Prize $150SECTION 2: Years 7, 8 & 9up to 2500 wordsPrize $125SECTION 3: Years 5 &…
Country Newspapers Short Story Competition
Closing date: 4 July 2025
The Fellowship of Australian Writers NSW has partnered with Country Press by assisting them to conduct a Short Story competition through our member, Greg McFarland (Isolated Writer) as their Representative. There are 49 Country Newspapers involved which are listed below.
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Love’s Voice
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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