Current Competitions

Listing of these competitions and opportunities
does not imply that SWWVic endorses any of them.

To find competitions closing in a particular month, click on the month below:

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FOR WRITERS' FESTIVALS AND OPPORTUNITIES OTHER THAN COMPETITIONS GO TO Opportunities

For competitions held by SWWV, click here.

For results of competitions held by SWWV go to Competition Results

Last updated: Wednesday, 22 May 2013

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Enter a Competition Today

by Marissa Byatt
Entering competitions or submitting work for magazine publication is a great way to measure your progress and can often lead to invaluable feedback on your work. Writing, polishing and sending your work in to be considered is good work practice and deadlines help the procrastination bug!

Five tips for entering competitions:
1. Always check the website or contact the organisers well in advance to confirm submission procedures and closing dates.
2. Make sure the fees are appropriate for the competition ($5 - $15 is average).
3. Make sure your work fits the criteria of the competition - you might have a winning story but it won’t get a look in if there are too many words!
4. Always have another person read your work before you send it, sometimes there are silly mistakes you might have missed. Writer’s workshops are great for polishing up work.
5. Don’t just send in one story to one competition - keep the ball rolling: send continually. Grab a copy of The Australian Writer’s Marketplace from your local bookstore; it has all the competitions, awards, fellowships and publication information you could need from all around Australia.

While the SWWVic do their best to confirm that all competition and opportunity details contained here are correct, we take no responsibility for inaccurate information sent either to us or on websites. The onus is on individual writers to confirm submission guidelines and closure dates before they submit.

ONGOING MONTHLY

Items that occur monthly or call for submission for publication, can be found on the Opportunities page.