Calls for submission, competitions, and opportunities in Australia

Prize: $1000  All entries must be received by 11.59 pm EST, Friday July 20 2018. the 2018 Venie Holmgren Environmental Poetry Prize is now open. The shortlist and winner will be announced during the Daylesford Words in Winter festival, August 17 – 26,...

The Digital Writers’ Festival is an online-first writers’ festival dedicated to celebrating the work of writers from Australia and across the world, and fostering new relationships through collaboration between writers, where ever they may be. DWF is...

The Cultural Trust is committed to encouraging excellence and supporting a vibrant, world-class arts scene in Australia. The Cultural Trust offers grants up to $10,000 to assist emerging and early career artists of exceptional talent to take up professional development opportunities, usually overseas.

The project Prague – City of Literature offers stays for foreign writers and translators. There are six residencies available every year, each lasts two months; the selection process happens during August and September. Prague – City of Literature reimburses the resident for a return ticket, provides accommodation for free and a stipend of 600 euro per month.

Stilts is currently open for poetry submissions.

The Hobart Bookshop and Island magazine proudly present the 2018 Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize. Now in its 23rd year, the Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize remembers Tasmania’s most acclaimed poet. First Prize $2000 + publication in Island 155 + annual subscription to...

Varuna the National Writers’ House invites writers from across Australia to apply for a Varuna Residential Fellowship. A Varuna Residential Fellowship offers writers working across a wide range of literary forms and genres the gift of uninterrupted time to...

This prize encourages artists and writers of fiction, poetry and essays to be part of setting a new agenda for our future – to imagine a just, common future, and how we might get there together.

The Fair Australia Prize is made up of 5 x $3000 prizes and 3 x $1000 union member prizes

One of the biggest single poem competitions in the world, the National Poetry Competition run by The UK Poetry Society is open to anyone aged 17 or older.

Bent Window Books is a publisher of poetry chapbooks focusing on Australian writers, with the occasional chapbook from elsewhere. Bent Window’s first chapbooks will be chosen from an open submissions period starting June 1, 2018. The accepted chapbooks...

The winner will receive AUD$15,000 The runner-up (second-placed poem) will receive AUD$5,000 Four additional poems will be short-listed All poems entered for the prize will be single poems that have a maximum length of 50 lines (see the Conditions of Entry for further...

ENTRIES OPEN 28 May 2018 ENTRIES CLOSE 9 July 2018 at 5pm ANNOUNCEMENT OF FINALISTS / CIVIC CHOICE AWARD 2018 VOTING OPEN 12 September 2018 Valued at more than $100,000, the Melbourne Prize for Literature 2018 and Awards provides significant opportunities to reward...

The Award is open to local Indigenous writers over 16 years of age and will be for a short fiction of up to 2000 words or a poem on any theme. Prize money of $1200 will be divided between the award recipients if there is more than one winner. The 2018 award will be...

Submissions are open for the 2018 Subbed In Chapbook Prize, and the online Ibis House Literary Magazine.

Residency dates A standard residency will operate on a three -month basis however a longer residency can be negotiated. There are no set dates for the residency: applicants will be asked to nominate their preferred residency period which must conclude no...

Express Media, in partnership with Scribe Publications and Word for Word National Non-Fiction Festival is excited to open submissions for the 2018 Scribe Nonfiction Prize for Young Writers.

Each year Booranga Writers’ Centre offers four paid opportunities for a Writer–in-Residence.

Through this ambitious, innovative and wide-reaching scheme, the Wheeler Centre is going to help make it easier to be an Australian writer with a story to tell.