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Competitions
Closing May to June 2013
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Last updated 01/05/2013
MAY
Calling
all emerging writers!
The Slow
Canoe Readings, in association with the Emerging Writers' Festival,
is seeking
submissions from emerging writers for its first short narrative competition.
Submit
your narratives of 1500 words, or ten minutes long, on the theme of food.
The
theme can be interpreted any way you like and can take any form (fiction,
non-fiction, monologue, cartoon).
The winner
will read their winning piece at the Slow Canoe event for the Emerging Writers'
Festival starting 23 May.
Alan Marshall Short Story Award 2013
Arnold
Zable will judge the 2013 Alan Marshall Short Story Award, which is currently
open for entries.
First prize for the award is $3000.
Short
story award applications:
http://www.nillumbik.vic.gov.au/Things_to_do/Arts_and_culture
Closes 17 May
The
Best of Times short story competition
Submit
your humorous short stories on any theme, up to 2500 words, for a chance to win
a first prize of $200.
Short
story competition entries: http://spiky_one.tripod.com/comp15.html
Closes
31 May
AHWA
Short Story and Flash Fiction Competition
Closes 31 May
Bush Lantern Award for Written Verse
Entries
are now open for the Bundaberg Poets' Society's annual poetry competition,
the Bush Lantern Award for Written Verse 2013.
The winner receives $200 and a Bush Lantern trophy.
Bush Lantern Award entries AT http://www.abpa.org.au/events.html
Closes 31 May
2013 Australian Book Review Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize
The
2013 Australian Book Review Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize,
one of
Australia’s most lucrative prizes for an original short story ? is now open
for entries.
The
2013 Jolley Prize is worth $5000 (first prize). It will be judged by Tony Birch
(academic and
author of the 2012 novel Blood), Maria Takolander (poet, critic
and past winner)
and Terri-ann White (director of UWA Publishing).
Short
Story Prize entries at https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/
Closes 31 May
JUNE
Prizes: $300, $200, $100
Conditions and Entry from can be printed out from our web site.
Closes: 12 June 2013
Take a fairytale and give new life with this competition themed "Fairy Tales Twisted Sideways".
Move the story forward to the present day, write the story from another point of view or choose a new ending.
Fairy tale competition entries: http://apchapterandverse.blogspot.com.au/
Closes 30 June
Creating
the Connection competition
The
Creating the Connection competition is open for entries of fiction, poetry and
visual art around the theme of animal protection.
Finalists will be published in a fundraiser anthology for Edgar's MIssion farm
sanctuary and Animal Liberation Victoria.
Scribblers
Literary Competitio
Prose: 1st
Prize $350, 2nd
Prize $150, 3rd
Prize $100
Poetry: 1st
Prize $350, 2nd
Prize $150, 3rd
Prize $100
Entry forms available from Editor ROBW or by sending a SSAE (business size)
to:
Scribblers, PO Box 580, Mandurah WA 6210. Also available to download from www.scribblerswa.org
Closes
30 June
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