Closing date: 31 January 2021 Clean the spilt coffee out of your keyboard (or sharpen your goose quill, whichever is more appropriate) and start writing a 1500 word (max) story that will excite the judges. This is an open-themed award …
Closing date: 16 July 2017 This competition follows in the grand footsteps of other thematic awards from Stringybark Stories. For this competition the organisers are looking for stories that have as their title a cliché and include one reference to …
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Entries close February 18, 2018. 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 …
Entries close 11:59 pm AEST 13 Feb 2022. Stringybark Stories is proud to announce its 37th short story competition. The Stringybark Open Theme Short Story Award 2022 is now accepting entries. Clean the spilt coffee out of your keyboard (or sharpen …
Closing date: 13 May 2020 Stringybark Publishing is proud to sponsor its new award, The Stringybark Stories ‘Tales with a Twist’ Short Story Award 2020. Clean the spilt coffee out of your keyboard (or sharpen your goose quill — whichever is more …
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Closing date 19 January 2020 Stringybark Publishing is proud to sponsor its annual flagship award, The Stringybark Stories Short Story Award 2019. Clean the spilt coffee out of your keyboard (or sharpen your goose quill — whichever is more appropriate) …
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 …
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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 …