Competitions

Slinkies is looking for writing under 10,000 words of any genre, from writers aged under 30, Do you battle with Millennial Fatigue? Symptoms include a generalised sense of impending doom

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Submit poetry, short stories, flash fiction and scripts that explore the theme of ‘confidence’

Works with a particular focus on telling lost women's history, untold stories, and reimagined myths, fairy tales, folklore or legends, or speculative fiction, are particularly encouraged. We only accept submissions

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Goldfields Libraries and the Eaglehawk Dahlia & Arts Festival are calling for entries from writers all over Australia for the annual Mulga Bill Writing Award. The 2022 festival celebrates 50

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The Caterpillar Poetry Prize is an annual prize for an unpublished poem written by an adult for children aged 7–11.    Every year since 2015, The Caterpillar Poetry Prize has been

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The prize for the competition is $1000 cash, publication in the Flying Island Pocket Poets Series (with fifty free copies to the poet) and the possibility of negotiating a short

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The Five Islands Press Prize is an initiative of previous Five Islands Press managing editor Kevin Brophy and the Centre for Creative and Cultural Research at the University of Canberra

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Enquiries: swwofwa@gmail.com or 0415 840 031 website: www.swwofwa.com.au

Entries are now open for the David Unaipon Award – an award that has launched the careers of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers such as Doris Pilkington Garimara, Tara June Winch, Ellen van Neerven, Larissa

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