The Kat Muscat Fellowship offers professional development up to the value of $5,000 in 2024. These funds may be used towards professional development opportunities, including, but not limited to: mentoring, …
Young Writers
The Literature Centre’s Young Writers 2024
This program offers an open and encouraging space for young writers and creatives to learn from award-winning Australian authors and meet a group of like-minded young people. It is offered …
Little Stories. Big Ideas Term 4 2023
Little Stories. Big Ideas is a flash fiction competition for Australian Secondary School Students. Entries must be 100 words or less. Term 4 entries must incorporate the current theme, ‘magic’. …
Perth Festival Call-Out to Young Artists
Perth Festival invites artists between 14 and 26 years old, anywhere in WA, to create a new piece of art in response to the 2024 Festival theme ‘Ngaangk,’ meaning both …
Somerset National Poetry Prize
The purpose of the Somerset National Poetry Prize is to encourage a love of writing poetry amongst secondary school students, to affirm it as a worthwhile literary pursuit, and to …
Somerfest Festival Novella Writing Competition
Submit a novella between Novella 8,000 words and 20,000 words. Open to all Australian high school students. Entry fee: $20. Prizes: Three finalists will be selected and have the opportunity …
Submissions Open: IndigoTeen Magazine
IndigoTeen Magazine is a literary periodical created for teenagers and by teenagers. It features the most successful text and imagery submissions from children and young people from 13 to 19 …
2023 Fogarty Literary Award shortlist
Congratulations to the 2023 Fogarty Literary Award Shortlist. The Fogarty Literary Award is a biennial prize for an unpublished manuscript by a Western Australian author aged between 18 and 35 …
2023 Sun Project: Shadow Judging Season
If you are from school, library, book store or club that has a group of young people who love reading, you are invited to register for Shadow Judging and encourage …
The Literature Centre’s Young Writers Collective
The Young Writers Collective is The Literature Centre’s face-to-face program. It offers an open and encouraging space for young writers and creatives to learn from award-winning Australian WA authors and meet a group …