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.
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 …
Long time Wollondilly FAW member Clare Bell had a very successful book launch on 22 November 2014 at the Wollondilly Shire Hall, Picton. Titled ‘My Australia’, the book—a collection of short stories, poems and photographs with an Australian theme—provides a nostalgic look at …
Writing NSW is delighted to announce the 2020 fellowships have been awarded to Kylie Boltin and Eleanor Kirk. Kylie Boltin was awarded the general fellowship for her novel, Snake Bite. With striking prose and a voice which will stay with the reader, …
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JULIE THORNDYKE Words by Julie Thorndyke, illustrations by Anna Seed. This is an entrancing bedtime book of lilting verse and striking full-colour spreads depicting Australian fauna in a stunning array of landscapes. A lovely book to share with children under …
An anthology from Sutherland FAW in 2021 Sutherland Branch of the FAW has published their new anthology Undercurrents. It is a collection of stories and poems that scratch the surface to see what is beneath. Undercurrents will explore the sinister that …