Ongoing

Odyssey House Victoria Annual Short Story Competition

This competition is open to writers of all ages and experience. Each submission must be no more than 1,500 words and follow the theme “Isolation”. It will need to make a reference to alcohol and/or drugs. There is a limit of three entries per person, and the entry fee is $10 per story. First prize ...

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$10

The Allen & Unwin Crime Fiction Prize!

ATTENTION ALL CRIME AND THRILLER WRITERS! Why wait to make crime pay?                            Is there a manuscript in your bottom drawer just waiting to be finished? Have you got a burning idea for the perfect crime … on paper?  Allen & Unwin is ...

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Heyman Mentorship Award partners with Catherine Milne and HarperCollins Australia

Novelist Kathryn Heyman, founder of the Australian Writers Mentoring Program, has partnered with publisher Catherine Milne of HarperCollins to offer the 2020 Kathryn Heyman Mentorship Award for a writer from a background of social and economic disadvantage. The successful writer will be mentored by Kathryn Heyman, under the auspices of the Australian Writers Mentoring Program, ...

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