Ongoing

Wayward Women exhibition to 30 June 2020: Old Treasury Building, Melbourne

Old Treasury Building 20 Spring Street, Melbourne

This exhibition presents ten stories about individual women’s lives in the past.  All of the women could be described as ‘wayward’.  Either intentionally, or through force of circumstance, they transgressed society’s rules in some way. Some prospered, but others paid dearly for their actions. The women and girls featured in this exhibition all lived in ...

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Free

2020 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize

$12,500 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize is currently open! Closes 1 May 2020 Entries are now open for the 2020 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize, worth a total of AU$12,500. The Jolley Prize is open to all short story writers writing in English. We seek original short stories of between 2,000 and 5,000 words. First ...

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$15 – $25

$2600 in prize money – St Kilda Historical Society Short Story Competition

To celebrate its 50th anniversary, the St Kilda Historical Society is holding a short story competition. You may write on any theme, in any genre and in any time period, providing that the story is inspired by or set in St Kilda.  There are two categories - open and junior. Open Section The winner of ...

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