Fellowship of Australian Writers

Awards and Competitions

The Fellowship of Australian Writers is happy to support organisations  in promoting writing related Awards and Competitions. Where the First Prize is a cash prize listing here is free otheriwse a fee of $50 is charged (please contact the webmaster for more details).

To have your award or competition listed here please email <webmaster@writers.asn.au> with the details.

Please, please, please use plain text and include a link to your website. Your formatting will be lost we don't include images on this page. Further, if you need to send an entry form for downloading (eg. you don't have it on your website) then please send it as a PDF. The simpler you make it the quicker it will be listed.

Details to include:

• Name of Competition
• Closing Date
• What is the competition for?
• Who is eligible?
• What are the prizes?
• Where can more information be found?

 

The following are competitions for writers. Good luck to all who enter.

 

 

The Bridge Foundation Annual Literary Competition

A. Open short story: Limit 2,500 words

B. Open poetry: Limit 40 lines

All entries to be previously unpublished work

 

Closing DATE:
Autust 31, 2010

 

THEME:
`Sentences`

 

ENTRY FEE:
$5 for one entry, $12 for three

 

PRIZES:
1st $100, 2nd $75, 3rd $50

ENTRY:
No entry form necessary. Name, address and entry details to be submitted on a seperate cover sheet.
Post to: The Bridge Foundation PO Box 9279, Sale, Victoria 3850

Results are published on http://www.bridgefoundation.com.au

 

 

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Burke and Wills Expedition - 150th Anniversary Bush Poetry and Short Story Competitons

Closing Date: 7 June 2010

A. Open Short Story : up to 3,000 words.
B. Open Bush Poetry : up to 100 lines.

 

THEME: 
Stories or poems can be based on any or all of the persons involved with the expedition and their experiences, or specific
part(s) of the expedition rather than the whole. Stories can be a mix of fiction and non-fiction.

ENTRY FEE:
$10 per entry in each genre.
Cheques, money orders to be made payable to Bendigo Goldfields Bush Poets Inc.

PRIZES:
1st $200, 2nd $100, 3rd $50 in each genre. Entrants placed 1st, 2nd, and 3rd in each genre will have their poem or
story published in an anthology of adult and school children placed entries on the theme. All entrants placed will
receive a copy of the anthology.

Both competitons are open to all adults. Persons 18 years and over.
 
Entries to be mailed to Bendigo Goldfields Bush Poets, PO Box 1152, Bendigo 3552.

 

The competitions are being run to celebrate the sesqui centenary of both the Burke and Wills expedition and also
their Camp 6 having been at Mia Mia Victoria. Results and launch of the anthology will occur at the Mia Mia
celebrations on Saturday 28th August.
 
More information can be obtained from the project coordinator Colin Carrington by emailing col@mulgabill.net.au
or telephoning 03 5433 2427.

Please select your appropriate entry form below: 

Burke and Wills short story entry form (PDF Download)

Burke and Wills open poem entry form (PDF Download)

 

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 DISCLAIMER:

 Whilst every effort is made to ensure competition information is correct the Fellowship encourages you to contact the competitions coordinators to ensure you have current information.

The Fellowship of Australian Writers lists competitions for the information of members and visitors. Other than the competitions conducted by the Fellowship, or unless otherwise stated,  we do not endorse or support the competitions listed here.

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