Competitions 

Closing March to April 2013

For competitions May to December, click here.

Last updated 05/04/2013

MARCH

Deadlines passed

APRIL

A New Sonnet Competition

The Melbourne Shakespeare Society seeks entries for the A New Sonnet Competition.

First prize is $250 and the best entries will be published in a chapbook later this year.

Sonnet entries AT http://home.vicnet.net.au/~bard/

Closes 1 April

The Text Prize

Text is searching for talented writers of young adult and children’s books. 
Every year The Text Prize attracts hundreds of great manuscripts from across Australia and New Zealand.
One lucky winner receives a Text Publishing contract worth $10,000. 
The Text Prize is open to published and unpublished Australian and New Zealand writers of all ages.

Text Prize entries: http://textpublishing.com.au/about-text/the-text-prize

Closes 3 April

Ticket to Write Festival

A competition for 15-minute plays with a Beatles theme.

Go to http://www.acedrama.co.uk/6.html
for information and entry details.

Closing Date: 5 April 2013

Portable Iron Houses short story competition

The National Trust of Australia (Victoria) and the City of Port Phillip are launching a short story writing competition 
about the Portable Iron Houses, South Melbourne.
The competition is to write a story that includes the Iron Houses: an imagination of who lived there, 
their use as backdrop to another story, their relocation.
Poems and prose, fiction and non-fiction will be accepted.
A research day and creative writing class will be held at the Iron Houses on Saturday 9 March.

Iron Houses competition details: http://www.nationaltrust.org.au/vic/StoriesfromtheIronHouses

Closes 8 April

Positive Words Short Story & Poetry Competition 2013

Closing date : Entires must be postmarked by 23 April 2013
A.   Open Short Story : up to 2000 words. B. Open Poetry : up to 48 lines.
 ENTRY FEE: $3.60 per entry or 4 entries for $12.00   
 First Prize $100.00, Second Prize - twelve months subscription to Positive Words.
Certificates for commended entries will be awarded in each section.
Entry form and more details  

Closing date: 23 April 2013

Fifty-Plus News short story competition

Fifty-Plus News is running a short story competition for Victorians aged 50 and over. 
Stories may be published in the magazine and the top five entrants will win $100.
 Go to: http://www.fiftyplusnews.com/short-story/

Closes 26 April 2013

RASBERRY AND VINE SHORT STORY COMPETITION

Open for entries in any genre. Up to 4,000 words.
First prize is $300
Go to: http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~raspberryandvine/Competitions.php

Closes 26 April 2013

Charlotte Duncan Award

The Charlotte Duncan Award is open for entries of short stories suitable for young readers aged nine to twelve years.

The annual award is a fundraiser by Celapene Press for the neo-natal unit at Melbourne's Royal Children's Hospital.

Go to: http://www.celapenepress.com.au/competitions.html

Closes 30 April

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