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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 end of this month, July 31. Winners for both prizes will receive a ticket and free accommodation to their respective festivals. To enter, please click here.
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 This joint initiative will provide a year-long structured mentorship to an unpublished Indigenous writer who has made substantial progress on a manuscript of fiction or nonfiction. The recipient of the Mentorship will be paired with a senior Indigenous writer working in the same genre for the year-long mentorship, providing feedback on their manuscript and professional advice. The inaugural Boundless Indigenous Writer’s Mentorship is open for applications until Monday 13 August 2018. For more information visit Writing NSW.
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 Prize website.
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 offered to an Australian poet able to hike the full length of the iconic Larapinta Trail in Central Australia, between 16-27th May 2019. The selected poet will participate in the 2019 hike, as part of a group of about 30 hikers; more information on the event can be found here, and applicants are strongly encouraged to read it closely before making their applications.
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 be found below: AAWP ASSF EMERGING WRITERS PRIZE 2018 2018 Terms and Conditions AAWP AASF Short Story Prize
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 revisions.
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 Flyer
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 memoir, journalism, essay, and creative nonfiction. Entries close at 11:59 pm on Sunday 9 September. Have a question? Need help with your application? Send an email to Bethany Atkinson-Quinton, Express Media’s Creative Producer at creativeproducer@expressmedia.org.au. For full details, see http://expressmedia.org.au/programs/the-scribe-nonfiction-prize/
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 festival filled with new voices and established writers which reflects the diversity of the field. So, if you have a passion for writing about science and an idea for a segment, submit! Submissions close Sunday 3 June: http://www.nswwc.org.au/whats-on/festivals-2/quantum-words/
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 with renowned tragic comic Annaliese Constable, slam poet and performance artist, Kevin Duo Jin, and Sweatshop’s Associate Director, novelist Tamar Chnorhokian. http://www.nswwc.org.au/whats-on/talking-writing/make-it-funny/