Fellowship of Australian Writers NSW Inc.FAW State & Branch sponsored and Third Party Literary Competitions.
Closing date: 31 July 2024
Maximum word count: 3000
Top Prize £500 plus publication on the Fiction Factory website.
Fees: £7 (£13 for 2, £18 for 3 stories)
Optional Critique available!
For information and submissions, visit: www.fiction-factory.biz/short-story-competition/
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Closing date 28 June 2024:
What does the world look like from the perspective of a creek? What do human behaviours look like through the eyes of cockatoos?
The Sutherland Shire Environment Centre’s 2024 RD Walshe Memorial Writing for the Environment Competition is now open.
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Entries for this competition closed at 5.00pm Sunday 2 June 2024.
Thank you to all those people who submitted their story. Judging is now under way and you will be advised if successful or not. The best 100 stories will be published in a book titled ‘Seniors Stories Vol.
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Closing date Sunday 31st March 2024
The Hush Foundation invites pieces of up to 1,000 words based on the theme: ‘kindness in healthcare.’
Entries can be fiction, non-fiction or poetry.
The winning entry will receive a cash prize of $650, with the second prize being $350.
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Closing date 30 June, 2024
Max length: 40 lines.
Reduced fees for multiple entries.
Top Prize £100.
The winner will also receive feedback on 5 poems plus a 1 hour-long mentorship zoom call with our judge, poet and author Helen Cox.
Results announced August,
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Closing date 30 June 2024
Style: Bush Verse
Theme: Open. Line count 60 maximum (excluding title)
Prizes: 1st $200, 2nd $100
Highly Commended and Commended Certificates at the judge’s discretion.
Entry fee: $10. Entry via email or post. Please note all postal entries must be postmarked on or before closing date (30 June 2024).
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ENTRIES CLOSE at 6:00pm Saturday 31 August 2024
Please read the Conditions of Entry before submitting your entry:
Entry Fee $15.00 per entry. Entries are to be submitted and paid for online,
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ENTRIES CLOSE at 6.00pm Saturday 31 August 2024
CONDITIONS OF ENTRY
(Failure to comply with the following conditions will result in disqualification without refund).
The Award is for a poem or group of poems up to 60 lines.
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For Australian School Students
ENTRIES CLOSE at 6:00pm Saturday 31 August 2024
SECTION 1: Years 10, 11 & 12(max lines 60)Prize $125SECTION 2: Years 7, 8 & 9(max lines 40)Prize $90SECTION 3: Years 5 & 6(max lines 40)Prize $65SECTION 4: Year 4 &…
For Australian School Students
Entries close at 6.00pm Saturday 31 August 2024
Entries are sought in the following categories:
SECTION 1: Years 10, 11 & 12(max lines 60)Prize $125SECTION 2: Years 7,…
Number 37 (Autumn 2024)
Closing Date 30 April 2024
Genre: Humorous short stories up to 2,500 words.
Prizes for first, second and third place.
Certificates for highly commended and commended stories.
Entry fee A$10 per story.
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Closing date 29 February 2024
Run in conjunction with Arts University Bournemouth.
The competition has the theme, ‘Lines in the Sand’ as its writing prompt and the Bournemouth Writing Festival organisers are looking for poetry (up to 30 lines) and flash fiction (up to 400 words).
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Closing date: 31 January 2024
Sunspot Lit has a new contest: Geminga 2024.
Prize: $500 for Tiny Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Graphic Novel or Art.
No restrictions on theme or category. Submissions may be excerpts from longer works. Open through January 2024.
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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 in Tasmania and publisher of
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Closing date: 25 February 2024
Stringybark Stories is proud to announce its 42nd short story competition, The Stringybark Open Short Story Award 2024. Thanks to authors Graeme Simsion and Anne Buist our award pool is bigger than ever! So 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.
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SECTION 1: SENIOR SECONDARY
Winner:
Sienna Graziani, ‘The Mortician’s Lament’, Central Coast Adventist College NSW
Highly Commended:
Adrian Zeckendorf, ‘Consumption’, St Michaels Collegiate TAS.
Commended:
Lily Ward,
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