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Submit a novella of no less than 8,000 words and no more than 20,000 words. Open to all current secondary students attending school in Australia. Students receiving home schooling are …
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Little Stories, Big Ideas
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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, ‘revolution’. …
Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Writing
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Submit short stories up to 2,500 words and poetry of any length. Entry fees: free for local and youth categories, $25 for open categories. Prizes: Open Category Winners (Short Story …
2022 Somerset National Poetry Prize
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Submit a poem of no more than 50 lines excluding the title, on any subject. The poem must be unpublished (also not published online) and not have won a prize …
Scribblers 2021 Golden Pen Writing Award Winners
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Scribblers Festival has announced the winners of its 2021 Golden Pen Writing Award. Junior Category (Years 4 to 6) Winner: Matilda Ashton Shortlisted: Anya Prince, Caleb Ng, Delilah Hoskins Middle Category (Years …
Campus Writing Competition
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Submissions are now open for fiction and non-fiction entries up to 1,000 words in the Campus Writing Competition. To enter, you must be a student at an institution that is …
Submit to Pulch Mag
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If you are a young person living in or from WA aged 26 or under, the editors of Pulch Mag want to hear your stories. Write about anything and everything, …
The 2020 Hachette Australia Prize for Young Writers Shortlist
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The 2020 Hachette Australia Prize for Young Writers shortlist has been announced. Congratulations to the three Western Australian writers who have been included in the Creative Non-Fiction Shortlist: Bethany Tan, …
The Literature Centre’s Online Writing Program
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The Literature Centre’s well-established program for Years 6-12 students (formerly Talented Young Writers’ Program) is now available online and called Young Writers Online. Enrolled students receive over 3 hours of author …
Fuel Your Creativity with Scribblers Festival
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The team at Scribblers Festival have created a Fuelling Creativity Workbook & Video Series for young creatives. Get inspired by 2020 LEGO Masters Jackson & Alex, author and illustrator Kylie …