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 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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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 Entrants may submit up to five unpublished pieces each of 60 lines.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 …
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Closing date: Thursday 15th September 2016. This international short story prize is open to writers around the world regardless of age, genre or career stage. Prize: AUD$1000 and publication in Mascara Literary Review. Theme: Tidal. Wollongong is a beautiful coastal city, …
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Closing date: 15 September 2017 First Prize $1000. Highly Commended $200. Theme: WORLD-CHANGING WORDS Word limit: 2500 words The Wollongong Writers Festival Short Story Prize will be awarded for a story up to 2500 words on the theme ‘World-Changing Words’. …
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Wayne Jarman If only I knew then, what I know now! How many times have you heard someone say that? I’ve said it myself. If only someone had shoved a book in my hand, when I was young, that gave …
The FAW Walter Stone Award 2014 for Life Writing was won by: Julie Weatherburn for Swimming Across Myself.