Fellowship of Australian Writers NSW Inc.FAW State & Branch sponsored and Third Party Literary Competitions.
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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FAW Lake Macquarie branch
Closing date: 31 May 2025
Theme: ‘MILESTONES’
There are two categories for this year’s competition:
Entry fee $15 per entry.
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Closing date: 01 June 2025
Entries are open for Australia’s richest prize for a single poem, where Australia’s top and emerging poets compete for $18,750 in prize money, with the first prize winner receiving $10,000. The ACU Prize for Poetry is calling for new poems on the theme of Belonging,
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(Erotic fiction competition)
Closing date: 24 August 2025
Open for submissions until Midnight (end of day) 24 August 2025 AEST.
Prizes:
Total prize pool of AU$1,000 plus a trophy for first place and a range of “spicy” prizes from our sponsors.
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Entries for the 2025 Seniors Stories Competition will be open from 9.00am Sunday 20 April 2025. Please try again after that date.
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ENTRIES CLOSE 6:00pm Sunday 31 August 2025
Failure to comply with these Conditions will mean disqualification.
* All fields are required.
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Closing date: 31 August 2025
CONDITIONS OF ENTRY
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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 &…
For Australian School Students
Closing date: 31 August 2025
Entries are sought in the following categories:
SECTION 1: Years 10, 11 & 12 up to 2500 words Prize $150SECTION 2: Years 7, 8 & 9up to 2500 wordsPrize $125SECTION 3: Years 5 &…
Closing date: 4 July 2025
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.
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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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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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