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History
'The National Republican Short Story Competition began in 2009. This was a milestone, as it had been 10 years on 6 November 2009 since the republican referendum was lost. To commemorate this event and to remind Australians what they still didn’t have the Australian Republican Movement ran the First National Republican Short Story Competitionas a challenge to Australia’s fiction writers to speculate on the possible futures of the Australian republic.' (https://independentaustralia.net/australia/australia-display/the-republic-of-letters,4499
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Inaugurated in 2009 by the Australian Republican Movement and open to all Australian residents. The purpose of the award is to promote non-constitutional change towards an Australian republic. Short stories must portray an Australian republican future in a positive light and demonstrate the absurdity of a hereditary monarch as Australian Head of State in twenty-first century Australian society.
Source: Republican Fiction blogspot, www.republicanfiction.blogspot.com (Sighted: 09/06/2009)
Latest Winners / Recipients
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Year: 2012
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Year: 2011
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Year: 2009
inaugural winner Rook Feast 2009 2009 single work short story
— Appears in: Australian Republican Movement 1999;
