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April 2022
Ada Cambridge Writing Prizes 2022 open for submissions
$15
Now open, thanks to the Williamstown Literary Festival: the Ada Cambridge Biographical Prose Prize ($500), Poetry Prize ($500), and The Young Adas ($250), named after one of Australia’s finest colonial writers.
Find out more »2022 Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction Now Open
$10
Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction with the theme AFTERMATH now open. Prizes $1000, $500 and $250. Closes Friday 15 April.
Find out more »Summer of Mystery
$5 – $45
The National Trust, in collaboration with Sisters in Crime, celebrates women crime writers and fictional crime fighters in its Summer of Mystery literary crime exhibition in Geelong.
Find out more »Jennifer Burbidge Short Story Award now taking submissions
$15
A Williamstown Literary Festival opportunity - entries for Jennifer Burbidge Short Story Award on a disability theme close on 29 April.
Find out more »May 2022
The 2022 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize Now Open
$15 – $25
Australian Book Review welcomes entries to the 2022 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize for original short stories of between 2,000 and 5,000 words on any subject and in any style. $12,500 up grabs.
Find out more »Literary Speed Dating – Australian Society of Authors
$27.50
A unique three-minute opportunity to pitch your completed manuscript to Australian publishers and agents via Zoom.
Find out more »Eastwood-Hills Fellowship of Australian Writers Literary CompetITion 2022
$8
A number of awards open with the Eastwood-Hills FAW Literary Competition 2022. Entries close 15 May.
Find out more »Crime on the Couch@St Kilda Writers’ Festival
$15 – $20
Warm up for the DicksVs Dames Debate at 5pm with relaxed one-on-one author talks with Crime on the Couch, pesented by Sisters in Crime. Great fun and you get to ask questions.
Find out more »Dicks Vs Dames: Sisters in Crime@St Kilda Writers’ Festival
$15 – $20
Sisters in Crime Australia & the St Kilda Writers' Festival present the return of the Great Crime Writing Debate, Dicks vs Dames: “The female of the species is deadlier than the male”
Find out more »June 2022
Entries now open for the 2022 ARA Historical Novel Prize
Entries for the ARA Historical Novel Prize, the richest genre-based literary award in Australasia (worth $100,000), is now open.
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