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.”
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Next Generation Short Story Writing Opportunity
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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Tasmanian Writers’ Prize 2025
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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Next Generation Indie Book Awards 2025
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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Not Quite Write Prize for Flash Fiction 2025
- Opens: Midday 24 January 2025 AEDT;
- Closes: Midnight 26 January 2025 AEDT
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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Eastwood Hills FAW 2024 Literary Competition: Results
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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Following the Grand Tour
Anya Nielsen
In 2012 Anya Nielsen of Wyong Writers FAW spent a month in Italy, with visits to churches, museums and art galleries. She travelled through the north and South of Italy including Sicily. Everywhere she went she tasted the bounties of the region. Similarly,
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Babushka’s Feast
Anya Nielsen
This book is a collection of family recipes enjoyed over the years by friends at Anya’s parties.
For more information contact Wyong Writers www.wyongwriters.org
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Mending Hearts at Crystal Cove
José F Nodar.
In this exciting and humorous novel we continue where we left off in Books, Pens, and Larceny.
Alicia Vassallo broke Danny Monk’s heart when he asked her to marry him and all she said was; “Well…”
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Stories to Share with My Partner Book 5
JOSÉ F NODAR.
A collection of short stories and poems written in 2024 as thoughts and ideas came to me. Writing has become a passion, and that passion has generated over 25 stories and poems in this book that will give the reader an opportunity to spend some time reading to their partner,
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Quick Stories & Poems
José F Nodar.
A collection of short stories and poems written in 2024 by thirteen diverse and talented authors from around the world, including Australia. Dive into a captivating world of emotion, imagination, and profound insight with this extraordinary collection of short stories and poetry.
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Results: The FAW NSW 2023 Ernestine Hill and Rae Cerhan Competitions
The Inaugural 2023 Ernestine Hill Memorial Short Story Competition:
Winner: Rachel Flynn, Fitzroy North, Victoria
Story Title: ‘Griffith’
The 2023 Rae Alison Cerhan Australiana Ballad:
Winner: Nola Vickery
Poem Title: ‘Under Opal Skies’.
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Final Flight of the Ranegr
CRAIG COOPER.
Three friends, lost in space, captured by a captain with conquest on his mind, drifting aimlessly toward an ancient mystery lurking in the cosmos.
A deepening crisis aboard a deep-space colonisation vessel has forced most of its crew to evacuate to the nearest planet.
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Fortuna
VERA ZEGARAC.
FORTUNA is a story of a woman’s journey searching for herself and true love.
Carla, a twenty-seven-year-old archaeologist drifts through life under the stern gaze of her ever-controlling mother. She is lonely and fears she will never find love.
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With or Without Trust
KAREN LIEVERSZ.
Detective Sergeant Greg Anderson has never been one for following the rules. But even he knows it would be a mistake to give in to the fiery chemistry between him and the cute, young intelligence analyst, Emily Saunders. That is until Greg finds himself caring for a homeless man’s dog.
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Tomorrow We May Walk on Clouds
WENDELL WATT.
This is a collection of poems which take inspiration from the natural world and reflect on a range of life experiences and the humorous absurdities that crop up along the way.
Published by Ginninderra Press, recommended retail price $22.50. Available online from Ginninderra Press,
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