2023 NWF/joanne burns Microlit Award
Submissions due:
Midnight, August 28, 2022
We are looking for play-themed writing for the 12th joanne burns Microlit Awards. Co-hosted by Newcastle Writers Festival and specialist microliterature publisher, Spineless Wonders, this award offers cash prizes and publication. The award will be judged this year by the celebrated and award-winning author, joanne burns and the publication will be edited by internationally renowned microlit expert, Professor Cassandra Atherton.
Send microfiction or prose poems, up to 200 words, which reflect on some form or aspect of play – whether playful ideas, language or behaviour. You may wish to invoke creativity and the imagination. You may want to play seriously with words. You may like to remember childish play; or conjure recreational pleasure; or revel in irreverence; or debunk received ideas. You may want your microliterature to cavort.
Whatever the case, send us a snapshot from one of microliterature’s many playgrounds. Challenge our sobriety. We welcome submissions that will amuse, amaze and unsettle us. Take us on a journey that will make us see the world anew.