Keep Track of Overland's List of Prizes

Mark this in your diary: Overland’s magnificent list of prizes For several years now, Overland has been hosting a number of prestigious prizes, with support from organisations such as the Malcolm Robertson Foundation, Victoria University, Story Wines and the National Union of Workers. To save you having to keep track of when they open and close, we've made this handy list @ https://overland.org.au/prize...

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Bunbury Writing for Performance Competition

The Shore Lines Writing for Performance Festival creates opportunities for established and emerging writers of all ages to have their work seen by a live audience. If you like to write and would like your work performed then Shore Lines is for you. The competition calls for written entries that will be judged on the quality of the writing and its suitability for performance. We encourage a wide range of genres including monologues, poems, plays, songs, stories, comedy, hip hop or rap. Entries...

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Be a Bad Romeo Competition

CALLING ALL WRITERS: Win a 1-on-1 meeting with Pan Macmillan’s Commissioning Editor! Those wonderful folks at Pan Macmillan have done it again for aspiring writers, putting the incredible opportunity of a 1-on-1 meeting with their Commissioning Editor up for grabs in a new competition! To celebrate the release of Bad Romeo, they’re asking you to submit a 1000-word story using the characters from William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet to badromeo@macmillan.com.au before Friday the 3rd of April! Pretty...

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