Calls for submission, competitions, and opportunities in Australia

STARTING BLOCKS WITHSANDRA THIBODEAUXDARWIN: March 14Got a great idea but don’t know where to start? Starting Blocks is a hands-on workshop that will take you through the basic elements of creative writing, such as description, character, plot, structure, dialogue and...

To apply and for more info visit: australiacouncil.gov.au/funding/funding-index/first-nations-writers-residency/ Please share widely. Applications close: Thursday 12 March 2020 (11.59pm AEDT)  To discuss your application, please contact, Joanne Brown, Manager First...

The Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards is now open for entries. The awards aim to support, develop and recognise excellence in writing.

Submission GuidelinesPublishers are invited to enter books published between January 1, 2019, and December 31, 2019.Submissions must be received by February 15, 2020.There is a $20 submission fee. Unlimited submissions are allowed, but each book requires...

Entries close at 5pm Monday 14 October 2019 so be sure to get your entry in soon.  The NSW Premier's Literary Awards are the richest state-based literary awards in the country with up to $305,000 in prize money to be awarded in 2020. The categories offered...

'We who care deeply about the arts find ourselves the priesthood of an almost forgotten faith, and we must, I think, if we would win the people again, take upon ourselves the method and fervour of a priesthood. We must be humble and half-proud. . . . We...

Entries for all categories of the 2020 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards are now open.

The 2019 IPC is generously supported by Readings Books & Music. 2019 IPCFirst piece of important business is that the 25th annual MPU International Poetry Competition has five days left to get your entries in (extended deadline). The final closing date...

The Lifted Brow is now accepting poetry submissions for a special edition on the theme of DIGITAL INTIMACIES.

Entries are now open for the $9,000 Peter Porter Poetry PrizeJudged by John Hawke, Bronwyn Lea and Philip MeadAustralian Book Review welcomes entries in the sixteenth Peter Porter Poetry Prize, one of Australia’s most lucrative and respected awards for...

DEADLINE:July 15th The annual Rattle Poetry Prize offers $10,000 for a single poem to be published in the winter issue of the magazine. Ten finalists will also receive $200 each and publication, and be eligible for the $2,000 Readers’ Choice Award, to be...

2019 Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry PrizeNamed in honour of a distinguished Queensland poet, the Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript is committed to encouraging emerging Queensland poets.  Now in its 17th...

Complete the entry form online.https://pavefest.wufoo.eu/forms/m1p31s01rv1rss/A downloadable copy of the 2019 entry form is be available here.

The Department of English at the University of Sydney is pleased to invite entries for two literary awards, made possible through generous bequests to the University: the Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest Award 2019 and the David Harold Tribe Fiction Prize 2019.

CONTACT USIf you have any queries please contact:AFAL Project OfficerPhone: (08) 8207 7215Email: SLSACommunityLearning@sa.gov.au 2020 AWARD NOMINATIONS OPENEntries for the 2020 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature are now open and close on Wednesday 31...

The 2019 awards are open and offer a total prize pool of $253,500. There are ten national prizes for outstanding books by Australian writers, illustrators and creators. This includes the $25,000 Queensland Premier’s Award for a work of State Significance...

The 2019 ACU Prize for Poetry aims to support writers and to continue the tradition of the Catholic Church as a key patron of the arts. Following the success of the Prize in previous years, the ACU Prize for Poetry will be awarded for outstanding poetry...

Each year, The Wheeler Centre picks ten outstanding writers and gives them $15,000 each to develop their work. Applications for 2019 are now open until 5pm Friday 12 July.  Take your story to The Next Chapter.Every writer knows that the story is only the...

Australian poets are invited to submit poems to be considered for this significant opportunity, to be awarded as winner or published as part of 60+ authors selected from submissions. Open now and closes August.