Calls for submission, competitions, and opportunities in Australia

Are you a storyteller living in the Northern Territory? Or a storyteller with a legacy connection to the Territory?Borderlands is open for submissions for its first online edition. Charles Darwin University, in partnership with Westerly, will publish a...

Entries for the 2019 Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize are now open.The prestigious Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize, worth approximately $3000, is open for award to an author of original poetry in the English language and who is an Australian citizen. The...

The Wyndham Writing Awards (previously Words of Wyndham) returns in 2019 to inspire, encourage and recognise emerging Victorian adult writers and literary creators.Prizes will be awarded for unpublished works in four categories: short story, graphic short...

MPU Publishing's new Editor-in-Chief Tina Giannoukos invites submissions for MPU’s Chapbook Poet Series for Published PoetsSubmissions are open for MPU’s new chapbook series for published poets for publication in 2020.Manuscripts will be selected during...

The annual Northern Territory Literary Awards celebrate the unpublished work of Territory writers in a range of categories.   The NT Writers’ Centre Poetry Award will be awarded to a single poem up to 300 lines, and the winning poet will receive $1,000 as...

Entries are now open for one of Australia’s richest poetry prizes, the 2019 ACU Prize for Poetry, with poets from all over the country competing for the coveted $10,000 first prize. The 2019 ACU Prize for Poetry will be awarded for outstanding poetry with...

GOLFO is a trans-continental poetry zine with a strong appetite for art and photography pairings with poetry. Poems are seen as much as they are read and GOLFO likes to heighten this sense in our publications. GOLFO responds to work that plumbs the depths...

OUT OF LIMBO Are you LGBTQIA? Do you have a coming-out story? Verity La wants your story! Or are you LGBTQIA and not out? Verity La wants your story too! Verity La's Out of Limbo publishes the stories of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer,...

Competition entries accepted until 5pm on 20 March 2019 Gladstone residents are encouraged to pen an entry in Gladstone Regional Council’s Micro Poetry competition and share their poetry proficiencies to celebrate Harmony Day and World Poetry Day. Both...

Submissions are now open for Plumwood Mountain vol 6 no 2 (August 2019) 'Intersecting Energies: Location, Gender and Climate'.Is climate change the overarching challenge of our time?How do location and gender intersect in climate change poetics?In this...

Entries for the 2019 Wesley Michel Wright Prize are now open.The prestigious Wesley Michel Wright Prize in Poetry, worth approximately $3500, is open for award to an author or composer of original verse or poetry in the English language and who is an...

Poetry on Planes is the first in a series of anthologies that will feature the work of 99 poets -- both established and emerging -- from around the world.The editors are soliciting original works that were, ideally, written while the author was travelling...

1st Prize - £500, 2nd Prize - £250, 3rd Prize - £100, plus 17 runners up published on the Welsh Poetry Competition website and in a future anthology.Judge - Mike JenkinsClosing date - 26th May 2019Poems in English, 50 lines maximumEntry fee - £5 (£6...

The Dorothea MacKellar Poetry Awards are open to primary school students until 30 June 2019.

All categories Open Theme, Short Story, Poetry, Memoir, Pauline Walsh Award for Short Short Story. $7 per entry or $25 for 4 entries. Entries close 15th May 2019.

The closing date for entries is April 22nd 2019. Hungry Hill Writing are delighted to announce their new Poets Meet Politics International Open Poetry Competition 2019 and that Christy Ducker has agreed to judge.They will be awarding a first prize of €500,...

Submissions close 31 August The Aesthetica Creative Writing Award is currently open for submissions. Hosted by the international art and culture publication Aesthetica Magazine, the Award celebrates excellence in Poetry and Short Fiction, supporting new...

In 2013, the director of Hunter Writers Centre and a palliative care nurse specialist, who also loved to write, dreamed up the idea of calling for stories and poems to publish for Grief Awareness Month (August). Six years later the project is still going...