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  The new issue from our friends at Westerly features work from a great array of writers, including Claire G. Coleman, Philip Neilsen, Beejay Silcox, Dan Disney, Mohammed Massoud Morsi, Marcelle Freiman, Paul Collis, Julia Prendergast, Stuart Barnes, Rachael Mead,...

Now in its 23rd year, the Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize celebrates Tasmania’s most acclaimed poet. First Prize receives $2000 and publication in Island magazine; as well as subscriptions to Island, Meanjin, Overland, Griffith Review, Southerly, Westerly and The Lifted...

The 2018 Fair Australia Prize – Australia’s only union-sponsored literary competition – is now open for entries. The prize invites writers of fiction, poetry and essays, as well as graphic artists, to be part of setting a new agenda for our future. The prize will...

The Australian Publishers Association, with support from the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund, is again offering its Publishing Industry Internship Program. The program offers six interns an opportunity to work with, and be mentored by, talented industry staff and a...

The Australasian Association of Writing Programs has chosen to extend the deadlines of two of its current competitions—AAWP/Australian Short Story Festival Emerging Writers Short Story Prize and AAWP/Ubud Writers & Readers Festival Emerging Writers Prize—to the...

Presented by Text Publishing and Writing NSW, the Boundless Indigenous Writer’s Mentorship aims to discover and nurture a powerful new Indigenous voice in Australian literature. This joint initiative will provide a year-long structured mentorship to an unpublished...

The Melbourne Prize for Literature is now taking submissions. If you are a published author and live in Victoria, you are eligible for entry with a prize pool of $100,000. All genres are welcome. For entry guidelines and the online entry form, visit the Melbourne...

In partnership with the Larapinta Extreme Walk (‘LEW’), Australian Poetry is pleased to announce the call-out for an exciting new fellowship. Available exclusively to Australian Poetry subscribers, the Australian Poetry/ Larapinta Extreme Walk Fellowship is to be...

The Australasian Association of Writing Programs has extended the deadline of the Emerging Writers Short Story Prize to June 30. For prospective authors, now is a great time to start proofreading those final revisions. Details on the prize and terms and conditions can...

Overland's Short Story Prize for New Writers will be closing on the 12 June. Full details can be found here. Southerly wishes all entrants the best of luck with their final...

Gleebooks will host a double poetry launch on Sunday, June 3rd. Anthony Lawrence will launch Distance by Simeon Kronenberg, while David Musgrave will launch 101 Poems by Anthony Lawrence. Click here for further details: Event...

Now in its sixth year, The 2018 Scribe Nonfiction Prize for Young Writers is a unique development award to foster talented writers aged 30 and under writing longform nonfiction. Entries between 5,000 and 10,000 words are welcome across all nonfiction genres, including...

Calling all science writers! Submissions are now open for NSW Writers Centre's science writing festival, Quantum Words. Are you a scientist who writes? A journalist, playwright, or science fiction writer? Festival Director Jane McCredie is looking to program a dynamic...

Join New South Wales Writers' Centre for Talking Writing: Make It Funny, an evening of readings, discussion and laughs on Thursday 5 April. Junkee Media’s News and Politics Editor, Osman Faruqi, will chair a panel on writing comedy about typically unfunny subjects...

Alicia Gilmore’s debut novel has been on store shelves for over a month now. Today, she discusses the process of working with Southerly’s own David Brooks . . . * * * * * *   Path to the Night Sea started as a short story in a fiction class with the author, Sue...

Kevin Hart releases Barefoot today! For a taste of Hart's unique poetic style readers can check out Southerly 77.2, where Hart has contributed the poems "Rain" and "New...

Thanks to Nasrin Mahoutchi-Hosaini for wrapping up 2017 with some insightful posts, and welcome to James Jiang, our first blogger for 2018. James Jiang completed his PhD in English at the University of Cambridge in 2016 and since returning to Australia has been...

Travelling scholarships from The Marten Bequest offer talented young artists the chance to explore, study and develop their artistic gifts through travelling either overseas or interstate. Applications to the Marten Bequest Scholarship are now open and will close on...

Our thanks to Chloe Wilson for a great series of posts. Southerly's blogger for December is Nasrin Mahoutchi-Hosaini. Nasrin Mahoutchi-Hosaini writes in Persian and English. Her short stories have been published in anthologies such as HEAT, Southerly, and Meanjin....

Many thanks to Mark Steven for his posts throughout October. Our new blogger for November is Chloe Wilson. Chloe Wilson is the author of two poetry collections, The Mermaid Problem and Not Fox Nor Axe, which was shortlisted for the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry and...

Image: Elizabeth Harrower photographed returning to Australia in 1959 on board the Southern Cross. Courtesy of Elizabeth Harrower Elizabeth Harrower’s writing has engaged and challenged her readers since she began publishing in the late 1950s. Her work is concerned...