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Submit fiction or non-fiction on any topic as long as the piece remains between 1,500 and 2,000 words. Open to young Australian writers aged 18 to 30. Prize: the prize …
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The Writers Prize 2024
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Submit an essay of up to 5,000 words on an open theme. Entry fee: $45. Prizes: The $10,000 (incl. GST) Prize will be given to a single winning author. $1,000 …
The Richell Prize for Emerging Writers 2024
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Submissions to the The Richell Prize for Emerging Writers 2024 are currently open. The Prize is open to unpublished writers of adult fiction and adult narrative non-fiction. Writers do not …
Barbara Jefferis Award
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The Barbara Jefferis Award is offered biennially for “the best novel written by an Australian author that depicts women and girls in a positive way or otherwise empowers the status …
SCWC + River of Art Festival Flash Fiction Competition
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Submit one piece of flash fiction of up to 500 words. Writers are encouraged to include the theme or words ‘many waters’ in their work in some way, and to …
Chapter One Prize 2024
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Emerging writers are invited to submit one chapter (or 5,000 words) from a literary novel, short story collection, or a hybrid work that crosses genre boundaries. Alternatively, ysubmit up to …
AAWP X UWRF Emerging Writers Prize for Poetry
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Submit up to 40 lines (lineated poetry) or 400 words (prose poetry and hybrid forms). This competition is open to emerging writers. Emerging writers will not have a full-length, single-authored, …
South Perth Young Writers Award 2024
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Submit stories up to 1,500 words. Open to all students from Year one through to Year 12 who live in or attend school within the City of South Perth. Categories …
Big Sky Short Story Prize 2024
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Explore your imagination and showcase your talent by creating a short story using a theme of your choice. Submit stories up to a maximum of 3,000 words. Open to people …
Randolph Stow Young Writers Award
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Young Writers in years 3 to 12 from the Midwest and Gascoyne Region are invited to submit prose and/or poetry to the Randolph Stow Young Writers Award. Two categories – …