The following were announced at the FAW Awards Luncheon held in Sydney on May 3, 2025. 2024 Ernestine Hill Short Story Competition Winner: Short Listed: The winning story ‘Long Shadows’ was published in the June 2025 edition of Writers Voice. …
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FIRST PLACE: Lonely Mountains, Cecelia Scarthy SHORT LISTED:The Lichen Gate, Kim NolanSunset in the Kitchen, Jake Dennis Winning Poem Lonely Mountainsby Cecelia Scarthy mountains appear so lonelytheir summit coldwind freezing and fawning at bonesisolation in ascensionand an alien like solacewhen …
FIRST PLACE:Rivers I Knew, David Judge SECOND PLACE:When Angels Come, Tom McIllveen THIRD PLACE:The Race Napoleon Won, Elizabeth Egan SHORT LISTED:A Poet’s Voice, David CampbellSaga of an Irish Lass, Jim Kent Winning Ballad Rivers I Knewby David Judge In the …
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WINNER:Long Shadows, Keren Heenan SHORT LISTED:Into the Dust, Andie CaseyRounders, M. E. GlascottElbers Knoll, Linda AitkinsWell Past Milking Hour, Patrick Eades Winning Story Long Shadowsby Keren Heenan If it wasn’t for the honey he wouldn’t even be out of bedthis …
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Presented by WYONG WRITERS GROUP Presenter: Vanessa Proctor haikupedia.org/article-haikupedia/vanessa-proctor/ Date: Saturday 23rd August 2025 Time: 1:15 for 1:30pm start. Duration 2 hours Venue: Woodbury Park off Woodbury Park Drive, MARDI NSW 2259 Cost: Members $10.00, Visitors $12.00, prepaid before 18/08/2025 Includes afternoon tea/coffee. Please …
Entries closed at 6.00pm AEDT Friday 31 October 2025. Thank you to those who submitted their stories. Judging is now underway.
Entries closed at 6.00pm AEDT Friday 31 October 2025. Short story up to 4,000 words (Failure to comply with the following conditions will result in disqualification without refund). 1. The Award is for Short Stories with an Australian Country theme, …
Entries closed at 6.00pm AEDT Friday 31 October 2025. Thank you to those who submitted their poems. Judging is now underway.
Poetry Competition In appreciation of Rae Alison Cehan for her bequest in 2022. Entries closed at 6.00pm AEDT Friday 31 October 2025. 1. The Award is for a ballad with an Australian theme, up to 100 lines. 2. Entrants must be …
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Entries close 19 September 2025: Encouraging Writers since 1982 Entry Fee of $5 per entry – all adult sections – Entry Form is required. Email for fillable form and Conditions of Entry to: OR send SSAE to address below. Post entries …
Lambing Flat Young FAW National Cherry Festival Writing Competition 2025 Read more »
Closing Date 31 Oct 2025. 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
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 …
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. …
For Australian School Students ENTRIES CLOSED AT 6:00pm Sunday 31 August 2025 Thank you to all those who entered their story. Results will be notified in due course.
ENTRIES CLOSED AT 6:00pm Sunday 31 August 2025 Thank you to all those who entered their story. Results will be notified in due course.