Affiliated Events
BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival: Lynda La PLante Online
Catch Lynda La Plante (Prime Suspect, Tennison, and many others) talking with Sue Turnbull about her latest novel Vanished - BAD online on Thursday 31 March at 6 pm
BAD Sydney Crime Writers’ Festival, Lismore Library Appeal
Venue Metcalfe Auditorium, State Library of New South Wales 1 Shakespeare Pl,, Sydney, NSW, AustraliaBe good with BAD and raise money for the Lismore Library - and hear from top Australian crime writers.
Ada Cambridge Writing Prizes 2022 open for submissions
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.
2022 Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction Now Open
Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction with the theme AFTERMATH now open. Prizes $1000, $500 and $250. Closes Friday 15 April.
Summer of Mystery
The Heights 140 Aphrasia Street, Newtown (Geelong), VIC, AustraliaThe 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.
Jennifer Burbidge Short Story Award now taking submissions
A Williamstown Literary Festival opportunity - entries for Jennifer Burbidge Short Story Award on a disability theme close on 29 April.
The 2022 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize Now Open
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.
Literary Speed Dating – Australian Society of Authors
A unique three-minute opportunity to pitch your completed manuscript to Australian publishers and agents via Zoom.
Eastwood-Hills Fellowship of Australian Writers Literary CompetITion 2022
A number of awards open with the Eastwood-Hills FAW Literary Competition 2022. Entries close 15 May.