Calls for submission, competitions, and opportunities in Australia

The Prime Minister’s Literary Awards celebrate outstanding literary talent in Australia and the valuable contribution Australian literature and history makes to the nation’s cultural and intellectual life.
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Announcing an exciting opportunity for writers to showcase their work to wider audiences, as entries are open for the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award.

Announcing the 2018 Newcastle Poetry Prize and the 2018 Grieve Writing Competition.

The Sutherland Shire Literary Competition is closing soon.  Entries Open: Monday, 5 February 2018 Entries Close: Monday, 30 April 2018 Australian residents over 18 years of age are invited to submit their individual, original works in the following...

COMPETITION DEADLINE REMINDER POETS MEET POLITICS 2018 INTERNATIONAL OPEN POETRY COMPETITION There are just under four weeks until our Poets Meet Politics International Open Poetry Competition 2018 deadline on Saturday April 28th. We invite entries,...

Entries open Monday 5th March & close Friday 20th July 2018, with the theme 'Empathy'.  Get involved on social media using the hashtag #ACUpoetry. Australian Catholic University is delighted to announce the 2018 Prize for Poetry. The competition is...

Submissions are now open for the next issue of Plumwood Mountain journal, with poetry guest edited by Bonny Cassidy.

15th May 2018: Eastwood Hills FAW Literary Competition 2018 All categories Open Theme, Short Story, Poetry, Memoir, Pauline Walsh Award for Short Short Story.   $7 per entry or $25 for 4 entries. 15th May 2018 Boree Log Award for Bush Verse 2018 Ballads to...

In partnership with the Northern Territory Government through Arts NT, Varuna is delighted to invite writers and book illustrators living in the Northern Territory to apply for The Arts NT Varuna Residential Fellowship.

Submissions close 5.59pm, Monday 30 April. The special issue will be available online in early June. About the guest editor : Dave Drayton is a poet, writer and Overland poetry reader He is a founding member of the Atterton Academy, Kanganoulipian, and the...

Please note the next submission period is March 15-31. Payment for a published poem is $60.  In 2018 submission calls will be quarterly (subject to change).  For the next Canberra Times submission period  (March 15-31), I am especially interested in...

Hungry Hill Writing are delighted to announce our new Poets Meet Politics International Open Poetry Competition 2018 and that Emily Wills has agreed to judge for us this year. We will be awarding a first prize of €500 for each competition, with a second...

The Dorothea Mackellar Poetry Awards : a unique national project, giving Australia’s youth a voice and an opportunity to strive for excellence in literature.

Applications for 2018 Hot Desk Fellowships will be open from Friday 16 February – Friday 9 March 2018.

Poetry entries should be no more than 40 lines and Short Fiction entries should be no more than 2,000 words. Entries are open until 31 August.  Call for Entries are open for the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award 2018, presenting an exciting opportunity for...

Closes 8pm, 28th May 2018. Over $8500 prize pool 2018 Grieve Writing Competition Write a story up to 500 words or a poem up to 36 lines Over 100 selected works published in the anthology

Applications for the State Library of Victoria's fellowship program are open now.  The 15 fellowships are worth over $200,000. There will be an information night on Tuesday 20 February. See the attached flier for more details.

open for entries: Mon 5 feb 2018 - Mon 30 April 2018

Overland is currently running the Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers, which is open until Friday 16 Feb.  With just over a week to go, we'd love your help in sharing the prize if it may be of interest to your friends, members and followers.  ...