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Submissions Open for Bruce Dawe Poetry Prize
TheBruce Dawe National Poetry Prizeis now accepting submissions. Poets have until 30 June to enter for the award, worth $2,000 this year, up from last year's $1,500.Dawe (pictured at left) is one of Australia's most acclaimed contemporary poets. He said ... |
16/04/2013 11:39:20 AM |
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Dangerously Poetic 2013 Byron Bay Writers' Festival Poetry Prize
'Ordinary miracles' is the theme for a new national poetry prize. Dangerously Poetic Press and the Byron Bay Writers' Festival are co-sponsoring the new prize, which will be awarded to the winning poet by prize judge Cate Kennedy at the Festival on 3 ... |
12/03/2013 9:47:21 AM |
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Homelessness the Theme of New Short Story Competition
The Footpath Library and Macquarie Bankhave joined forces to launch a new short story competition. Stories of up to 2,000 words are eligible. The winning story will be awarded prize money of $1,500. The runner up will get $350 and $150 will go to the ... |
08/03/2013 8:29:04 AM |
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Short Sentence Competition for Crime Writers
Crime writers - how terse can you be? Can you tell your story in a thousand words? If so, Bloomsbury want to hear from you for their Short Sentence competition, which waslaunched last month. It will run for ten months, finishing in November. How does it ... |
07/03/2013 9:16:32 AM |
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Which Blogs Are Australia's Best?
The Australian Writers' Centre will launch itsBest Australian Blogs competitionfor 2013 on Thursday, 28 February. Prizes worth $18,000 are up for grabs. Competition coordinator Rose Powell said: 'The Australian blogosphere is a big, vibrant place where ... |
26/02/2013 9:25:40 AM |
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Nine in Line for Overland's Judith Wright Poetry Prize
Nine poems have been shortlisted for Overland's 2013Judith Wright Poetry Prize. The winner will be selected from the more than 400 entries submitted. Winning poems for the prize, worth $9,000, will be announced on Friday, 15 March. Dusk Dundler, Luke ... |
19/02/2013 9:12:45 AM |
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Young Writers Innovation Prize
Are you a young writer with a unique idea for a project? If so, then consider applying for the Young Writers Innovation Prize, a new program funded by the Copyright Agency'sCultural Fund and administered by Express Media.Express Media will award a first ... |
11/02/2013 8:59:24 AM |
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Deadline Approaching for Josephine Ulrick Prizes
Poets and short story writers have until 31 January to enter for the Josephine Ulrick Prizes. Two prizes are on offer - a short story prize fora story of between 1,000-3,000 words, and a poetry prize for a poem or suite of poems up to 200 lines. First ... |
17/01/2013 8:51:37 AM |
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What's Love Got To Do With It?
The Australian Writers' Guildis celebrating its fiftieth anniversary with a scriptwriting competition, called 'What's Love Got To Do With It?' The script can be for a feature film, tele-movie or television mini-series, but it must have a love story as the ... |
06/12/2012 9:27:41 AM |
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The Wisdom of Crowds?
ABC television's First Tuesday Book Club has announced the titles that made the Top Ten Aussie Books to Read Before You Die list. The books were chosen by popular vote, with thousands of people writing in to barrack for their favourite. Tim Winton's ... |
05/12/2012 1:00:38 PM |
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Grand Slam
CJ Bowerbird is the winner of this year'sAustralian Poetry Slam, achieving two perfect scores during the first and second rounds. Bowerbird won the chance to tour Beijing, Chengdu and Souzhou in China with Bookworm International Literary Festival, ... |
05/12/2012 9:06:29 AM |
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Enter on Spec?
Are you a published writer of speculative fiction? Did your book appear within the last calendar year? If so, think about nominating for the 2012 Aurealis Awards. You have till the end of December to put your name forward. Entry is free, and works can be ... |
04/12/2012 9:53:46 AM |
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Are You the Voice?
Are you under 20? Do you love reading and writing? If so, Inside a Dog would like to hear from you. They're looking for a guest blogger for their You're the Voice blog. Voices need to write a weekly blog post (250-500 words) for a month, which adds up to ... |
30/11/2012 10:12:29 AM |
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Following in the Footsteps of Judith Wright?
Poets have three days left to submit entries for the Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Poets. The competition, supported by the Malcolm Robertson Foundation, is now open. The prize was established in 2007 to foster poetry by writers ... |
12/11/2012 10:40:43 AM |
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Tale of Teaching Proves a Winner
Congratulations to Rebecca Raisin, the People's Choice winner of the National Year of Reading 2012's Adult Learners' Week short story competition. Her story was called 'By Teaching Thomas'. The theme of the competition was 'It's never too late ... to ... |
07/11/2012 1:40:08 PM |
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Anthology Gives Voice to Animals
Australian Ethical Investment is the sponsor of a new literary award, The Voiceless Writing Prize. The prize aims to advance public understanding of ‘animal sentience, human-animal relationships and the ethical treatment of animals’. In the ... |
01/11/2012 12:47:00 PM |
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Lack of Lubricating Oil May Be Australia’s Undoing
The winning scenario in the Australian Security Research Centre’s (ASRC) inaugural short story competition envisages chaotic scenes and social breakdown due to a shortage in supply of lubrication oil. In Debbie Rudder’s story, ‘The ... |
25/10/2012 11:04:21 AM |
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Friday Closing
Could you write for new media? For an iPad, smartphone, or for readers on the Web? If so, try entering for the New Media Writing Prize, a UK competition where your words can be combined with images or video - or even involve audience interaction - to make ... |
09/10/2012 11:31:58 AM |
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Write Australia
Entries are now open for Writing Australia’s Unpublished Manuscript Award, a program designed to help writers get published. Up for grabs are a $10,000 cash prize and a $2,000 mentorship. Work submitted can be literary or genre fiction, and should ... |
08/10/2012 2:25:55 PM |
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Wanted: Novellas
Seizure has launched a novella competition for Australian and New Zealand writers. Now on to its third issue, Seizure is an online magazine that describes itself as a 'launchpad for Australian writing'. What is a novella, you might ask? Novellas are ... |
05/10/2012 7:58:16 AM |