Entries close January 31, 2016. Open to residents of Australia and New Zealand, the prize is for short stories up to 3,000 words having an island, or island-resonant, theme. The competition, now entering its seventh year, is run by Forty …
Closing date: 18 March 2018 Stringybark Stories has announced its annual open-themed short story competition and is now accepting entries. With record prize money for the fifth year in a row, the organisers are offering a total value over $1175 …
Entries close February 14, 2024 Open to residents of Australia and New Zealand, the prize is for short stories up to 3,000 words having an island, or island-resonant, theme. The competition is run by Forty South Publishing, the largest book publisher …
Closing date: 30 January 2023 The Fellowship of Australian Writers Western Australia has an annual competition, the Tom Collins Poetry Prize, which is open for submissions until January 30. Entrants may submit up to five unpublished pieces each of 60 lines. Open …
Peter J. Uren Since joining Stroud Writers in 2012, Peter has written and self-published five novels and a booklet of poems. In a departure from his stories of an old motorcycle mechanic, Pete leaves the workshop behind to write about …
Poems of Love and Loss Margaret Zanardo #105 Pocket Poets series, Ginninderra Press, South Australia, 2019 Margaret is a Sydney poet, writer and graphic designer. A member of Harbourside Poets, she has had work published in a number of poetry …
Closing date: 15 December 2017 The Tom Collins Poetry Prize is an annual competition inaugurated in 1975 by the Fellowship of Australian Writers Western Australia (FAWWA) in memory of Australian author Joseph Furphy (1843–1912). Under the name Tom Collins, he …
Wayne Jarman The Ancient Legends decreed that the second born prince of Arrindare should, on his eighteenth birthday, become the Warlord of the seven armies of Amorand. As Prince Gwaine’s eighteenth birthday approached, so did the war. Century after century …
Marjorie Quinn Marjorie Quinn was the founding honorary secretary of the Fellowship of Australian Writers. In the 1960s she wrote her memoirs, a veritable who’s who of the literati of Sydney in the years before and after the war. She …
Closing date 14 August 2022 Stringybark Stories is proud to announce its 38th short story competition. The Twisted Stringybark Short Story Award 2022 is now accepting entries. Clean the spilt coffee out of your keyboard (or sharpen your goose quill—whichever is more appropriate) …
Greg Tome In this collection, Greg Tome’s eyes are everywhere, playfully or ruminatively considering much that is revealed to the observant poet. His poems survey the grace of human attachment, the remarkable beauty of the everyday world as well as …
Closing date 15 October 2018. Open to All (writers of all genres and career stages). Theme: ‘FEEDING TIME’ (feel free to play fast and loose with this theme!) Size: up to 2500 words (shorter submissions are great too!) Entry …
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In the 2015 Queen’s Birthday Honours List, Valerie Parv was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM). The citation reads, “For significant service to the arts, as a prolific author and as a role model and mentor to young …
Poems by Pip Griffin Paperback, September 2021 “… K & I had our relationship, & never again shall I have one like it”—Virginia Woolf, October 1924. In January 1923, Virginia Woolf noted in her diary that Katherine Mansfield had promised …
Penny Lane Winning writing: What works for me is a writing memoir with two interwoven threads. One thread is a collection of Penny Lane’s award-winning short stories, the other is an account of how Penny became a writer, how the …
The Wollongong Writers Festival is back to celebrate its third birthday, and has a whole lot of new and exciting events planned. Each of the events will be run at a variety of venues around Wollongong from November 18th through to November 29th. Click here …