Submit poems up to 80 lines. Optional theme: “Listen, I have an Idea”. Open to students enrolled in an Australian education facility (Kindergarten to Year 12). All types of mainstream …
Young Writers
Literature Centre Young Writers Program
The Literature Centre’s Young Writers program is open to WA student writers in Years 6 to12. Once a term, students learn from an award-winning Australian author in a day long, …
Submissions Open: Speculative Fiction for Creature
Undergraduate and post-graduate students in Australia are invited to submit speculative fiction up to 2,000 words for prose and four pages for poetry. You may submit two submissions per writing …
John Gavin Writing Competition 2024 (Students Category)
Like dreams and nightmares after we wake up, sometimes people from the past start to be forgotten as time goes on. After learning about the trial of John Gavin from …
KSP Groups for Young Writers
Are you a young writer under the age of 18? Would you like to meet up with other young writers and be encouraged in your writing while being mentored by …
What Matters? Writing Competition
Submit fiction, non-fiction, poetry or prose of up to 600 words on an issue of significance to you. Open to students from Year 5 to Year 12 undertaking Primary or …
2024 Make Your Own Storybook Competition
The Make Your Own Story Book Competition is held annually and attracts entries from young people statewide. Create a picture or story book using original text and illustrations. Open to …
2024 Slinkies Under 30s
Submit prose in any form under 10,000 words. Open to writers younger than 30. Closing date: Friday 31 May 2024. Further details can be found on the Spineless Wonders website.
Submissions Open: Pulch Issue Three
Pulch is a magazine made for and by young people living in WA, with the aim of providing more publishing opportunities for young writers and creatives, and of celebrating the creativity …
Promised Protagonists Magazine
The Promised Protagonists is now accepting submissions for their first issue! The target audience of the magazine is children, with an aim to increase the representation of the diverse groups …