Fellowship of Australian Writers NSW Inc.Closing date: 31 March 2021
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Please submit up to six original, unpublished tanka (only one will be selected) in the body of your email to the Eucalypt editor, Julie Thorndyke
For subscription information visit:
juliethorndyke.com/eucalypt-a-tanka-journal/
For information about the tanka form please refer to: www.eucalypt.info
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Closing date: April 12, 2021
Grist’s solutions lab, Fix, has launched a new climate-fiction short story contest.
Imagine 2200 calls for stories (3,000–5,000 words) that envision the next 180 years of equitable climate progress. What might the world look like in the year 2200,
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Closing date: 19 April 2021
The nationally recognised Sutherland Shire Literary Competition returns this year, with organisers expecting a large number of entries from both local residents and aspiring writers from further afield.
Now in its third year, the 2021 Competition aims to recognise the breadth and diversity of literary talent within the Sutherland Shire and across the nation,
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Closing date: 30 April 2021
This year’s theme is ‘Australian Life (in all its diversity)’. The competition welcomes fiction and non-fiction entries under 5,000 words from writers aged 18+.
First place wins $15,000, second place $3,000, and third place $2,000.
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Closing date: 30 June 2021
Theme: Open. Line Count: 60 Maximum (excluding Title).
Prizes (each category): 1st $200; 2nd $100. Highly Commended and Commended Certificates at the judges’
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Closing date: 31 January 2021
Issue 3 of the Pocketry Almanack is open for submissions of poetry and art.
The Pocketry Almanack is a pocket-sized compendium that publishes emerging and aspiring poets who have not already had their work published in a literary journal.
Short poems – 18 lines maximum including lines breaks and 45 characters wide including spaces.
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Closing date: 1st May 2021*
Proposed series of Crime fiction anthologies initially slated on a quarterly publication.
*Submission windows are:
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Closing date: 14 April 2021 (8pm)
2000 words maximum. Entry Fee $15.00 + GST.
1St Prize $3,000 cash. 2nd Prize $1500 cash
3rd Prize $1000 Westfield voucher.
Finalists will be published in an anthology, to be announced on the promoter’s website and across its social media channels.
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Closing date: February 28, 2021
Open Call for Writers and Artists
Sunspot Literary Journal offers an Editor’s Prize of $50 for the annual edition, and pays for artwork selected for a cover. Now open for flash, and stories and essays up to 49,000 words.
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Closing date: 12 February 2021
Call for Entries. Over $10,000 in Monetary prizes, over 70 categories
Calling all indie book authors and publishers – including small presses, mid-size independent publishers, university presses, e-book publishers, and self-published authors who have a book written in English released in 2019,
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Closing date: 2 February, 2021
What is this world in which we are entangled?
How, where or when do we connect?
Welcome to the fourth Voices of Women annual writing competition!
ENTANGLEMENT: We invite all unpublished short monologues and narratives (800 words) written in the first person.
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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 although there are three requirements:
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Closing date: 31 July 2021
Writers of short fiction are invited to enter the Anthology Magazine Short Story Competition. Established to recognise and encourage creative writing and provide a platform for publication, it is open to original and previously unpublished short stories in the English language by a writer of any nationality,
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Closing date: 30 March 2021
Sky Blue Theatre Company is delighted to announce that the international new one act playwriting competition, the British Theatre Challenge, is returning for its ninth year and is open for submissions from November 1st to March 30th.
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Closing date: Monday 23 November 2020
Text Publishing and Writing NSW are proud to announce the 2021 Boundless Indigenous Writer’s Mentorship. The prize was established in 2019 to discover and nurture a powerful new Indigenous voice in Australian literature.
This joint initiative will provide a year-long structured mentorship to an unpublished Indigenous writer who has made substantial progress on a manuscript of fiction or non-fiction.
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Closing date: November 30, 2020
Open Call for Writers and Artists:
Sunspot Literary Journal is now open for the last quarterly edition of 2020. The journal is dedicated to amplifying diverse multinational voices. Editor’s Prize of $50 for the annual edition, and artwork selected for a cover will be paid $20.
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