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Deadline: Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize
Jun
6
Call for Entries

Deadline: Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize

As an Australian poet, your contribution shapes our culture. None believed this more so than the late Emeritus Professor Bruce Dawe AO, one of Australia’s most acclaimed contemporary poets. Professor Dawe believed that universities should support the study of literature and promote the Arts in Australian society. His decision to sponsor this prominent Literary Prize is ongoing, living proof of his conviction.

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Entry Deadline: The Speculate Prize
Sept
1
Call for Entries

Entry Deadline: The Speculate Prize

 
 

Entry Deadline - 1 September 2021

Description
The Speculate Prize is a new award for an unpublished speculative fiction manuscript, presented by RMIT Writing & Publishing and RMIT Culture in partnership with Giramondo Publishing, sponsored by Whispir, and supported by the Speculate Literary Festival.

One winner will receive $5000 prize money, mentorship from Giramondo Publishing and a week-long residency at RMIT Culture’s McCraith House on the Mornington Peninsula, Victoria.

This biennial prize is aimed at writers from Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand who explore the expansive possibilities of literature: those who imagine other worlds – other realities – that may even exist within our own. We wish to uncover and support writers who embrace new literary modes and extend the possibilities of the novel and short story form.

Submissions are open and close 1 September. The winner will be announced in November.

The 2021 Speculate Prize will be judged by Rose Michael (RMIT), Astrid Edwards (Melbourne Writers Festival), Nick Tapper (Giramondo) and Declan Fry.

The winner will receive:

  • $5000 prize money (inclusive of travel costs)

  • a mentorship from Giramondo Publishing

  • a week-long residency at RMIT’s McCraith House on the Mornington Peninsula, Victoria

One highly commended author will receive:

  • a twelve-month book subscription (valued at $250) from Giramondo Publishing

  • a feedback session with a Giramondo editor

Speculative fiction is the perfect form to write the future, right the past and rewrite the present. This biennial prize is aimed at writers who explore the expansive possibilities of literature: those who imagine other worlds – other realities – that may even exist within our own. We wish to uncover and support writers who embrace new literary modes and extend the possibilities of the novel and short story form.

  • The manuscript must be complete, no less than 30,000 words and no more than 100,000 words.

  • The manuscript must not be published (in any country or form, including digital and self-published).

  • The manuscript must not be under consideration with other publishers or agents.

  • The manuscript should be in Word or PDF, a serif font, 12 pt, with 1.5 line spacing and page numbers.

  • The manuscript should include a cover sheet with title, author name, and a brief one-paragraph summary. (If you wish, please specify whether you identify with the community represented in your piece. As per Overland’s recent editorial statement on blind judging, this response will only be provided to judges if they ask for it.) The author’s name should not appear anywhere else on the manuscript.

  • The Speculate Prize is open to residents of Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand.

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2021 Queensland Literary Awards - Nominations close
Apr
30
Call for Entries

2021 Queensland Literary Awards - Nominations close

The Queensland Literary Awards celebrate and promote outstanding Australian writers. State Library of Queensland proudly manages the awards in collaboration with sponsors, industry partners and the writing community.

On offer are eight national prizes for outstanding published books by Australian writers, illustrators and creators. This includes the $25,000 Queensland Premier’s Award for a work of State Significance which highlights a uniquely Queensland story.

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The Richell Prize for Emerging Writers
Jul
10
Call for Entries

The Richell Prize for Emerging Writers

Hachette Australia, along with the Richell family, is honoured to launch the Richell Prize for Emerging Writers for 2020, in partnership with The Guardian Australia and The Emerging Writers’ Festival. The winner will receive $10,000 in prize money, to be donated by Hachette Australia, and a year’s mentoring with one of Hachette Australia’s publishers. Hachette Australia will work with the winning writer to develop their manuscript with first option to consider the finished work, and the shortlisted entries, for publication.

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ACU Prize for Poetry
Jul
6
Call for Entries

ACU Prize for Poetry

An initiative of the Office of the Vice President and forming a critical part of ACU’s comprehensive Arts and Culture Strategy, the ACU Prize for Poetry receives hundreds of entries each year from across Australia. The prize recognises and supports the importance of poetry in Australian culture and the part it can play in the spiritual life of both those writing it and those reading it.

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