ENTRIES CLOSE 6:00pm Sunday 31 August 2025

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For Australian School Students

ENTRIES CLOSE at 6:00pm Sunday 31 August 2025

SECTION 1: Years 10, 11 & 12up to 2500 words Prize $150SECTION 2: Years 7, 8 & 9up to 2500 wordsPrize $125SECTION 3: Years 5 & 6up to 1500 wordsPrize $100SECTION 4: Year 4 &…

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The Fellowship of Australian Writers NSW has partnered with Country Press by assisting them to conduct a Short Story competition through our member, Greg McFarland (Isolated Writer) as their Representative. There are 49 Country Newspapers involved which are listed below.

The Newspapers will publicise the event and distribute the Entry Forms. 

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The NSW Dept of Communities and Justice and FAW are conducting a Short Story Competition for NSW Seniors Card and Senior Savers Card holders. The Top 100 stories will be published in Seniors Stories Volume 11. Seniors Card membership, the competition entry and Workshops are FREE.

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Opens 9.00am Sunday 20th April – Closes 6.00pm Sunday 1st June 2025.

The NSW Dept of Communities and Justice and FAW are conducting a Short Story Competition. The Top 100 stories will be published in Seniors Stories Volume 11 and NSW Seniors Card Membership, the competition entry and Workshops are FREE.

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Immediately following the 2024 FAW NSW Annual General Meeting will be the second Ernestine Hill Memorial Short Story Awards Luncheon.

This event will include presentation of both the Ernestine Hill Memorial Short Story Award and the Rae Alison Cerhan Australiana Ballad competition.

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Closing date: 23 February 2025

Stringybark Stories is proud to announce its 44th short story competition since 2010. Stringybark Publishing, and authors Graeme Simsion and Anne Buist are proud to sponsor the Stringybark Open Themed Short Story Award 2025.

This is their flagship short story award.

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Closing date Thursday 27 February 2025

The Next Generation Short Story Awards, currently in its second year, is a not-for-profit international awards program for authors of short stories. The Short Story Awards is now accepting entries of short stories and poems in English (5000 words or less) for the 2025 awards program in 30+ categories. 

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Entries close February 14, 2025

The prize is for short stories up to 3,000 words having an island, or island-resonant, theme.

The winning entry receives a cash prize of $500 and all finalists’ stories will appear in the Forty South Short Story Anthology 2025.

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Closing date February 13, 2025 

The Next Generation Indie Book Awards, the most exciting and rewarding book awards program open to independent publishers and authors worldwide, is currently accepting entries written in English and released in 2023, 2024 or 2025 or with a 2023,

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• Opens: Midday 24 January 2025 AEDT; 
• Closes: Midnight 26 January 2025 AEDT 

The Not Quite Write Prize challenges writers to break the writing ‘rules’ while still telling a compelling 500-word story. 

Participants have 60 hours to write up to 500 words of Flash Fiction in response to two prompts and one anti-prompt.

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