Anthology Magazine Short Story Competition (International)

Writers of short fiction are invited to enter the Anthology Magazine Short Story Competition.  Established to recognise and encourage creative writing and provide a platform for publication, it is open to original and previously unpublished short stories in the English language by a writer of any nationality, living anywhere in the world. Stories submitted must be on the ...

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€10 – €15

Miss Fisher: The Exhibition@ Ripponlea Estate (3 December-late May 2021)

Rippon Lea 192 Hotham Street, Ripponlea, Vic, Australia

Miss Fisher returns to Rippon Lea estate in Melbourne on Thursday 3 December with brand new costumes from her big screen adventure. The exhibition would have opened on 9 July but for the pandemic lockdown. Following the cinematic debut of the internationally successful feature film Miss Fisher and The Crypt of Tears earlier this year, the ...

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$12.45

2021 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize

Open to original short stories of between 2,000 and 5,000 words. Entries close: Midnight, 3 May 2021 First prize: $AU6,000 Second prize: $AU4,000 Third prize: $AU2,500 Judges: Gregory Day, Melinda Harvey, and Elizabeth Tan (read more) AU$15 for current ABR subscribers and full-time students or AU$25 for non-subscribers Click HERE to enter. Please read the ...

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$15 – $25

The Banjo Prize 2021 – entries open

HarperCollins Publishers Australia is delighted to announce that entries  open for the 2021 Banjo Prize on Wednesday 31 March. HarperCollins launched The Banjo Prize in 2018 in a quest to find Australia’s next great storyteller. The inaugural winner was Tim Slee, whose delightful debut novel Taking Tom Murray Home was published by HarperCollins in July 2019.  ...

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Call for Entries: The $10,000 Text Prize!

The Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing is an annual $10,000 prize awarded to an outstanding unpublished manuscript. Since its inception in 2008, the Text Prize has become one of the most renowned prizes for young adult and children’s writing in Australia and New Zealand. This year, Text is also introducing the Steph ...

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$25

ARA Historical Novel Prize now $100,000

ARA Historical Novel Prize is now worth $100,000 with CYA Category Added The winner of the Adult category Prize will be awarded $50,000, with an additional $5,000 to be awarded to each of the two shortlisted authors. In the Children's and Young Adult category, the winner will receive $30,000, while the two short listers will ...

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Readings Zoom event: Robin Gregory in conversation with Philomena Horsley

Readings is delighted to be hosting a conversation between crime author, Robin Gregory, and award-winning short story writer Philomena Horsley, about Robin’s debut novel, Traffic. Sandi Kent, Melbourne Private Investigator, has her hopes for an easy December dashed when two complicated cases crash into her lap, one from her volatile ex-girlfriend. As Sandi juggles the ...

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$5

2021 Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction now open

Now in its ninth year, the 2021 Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction is accepting entries of creative, insightful fiction up to 2000 words that engage with the theme HOMECOMING. The competition is open to all women and non-binary writers and will be judged by Adalya Nash Hussein, Vivian Pham, and Nicola Redhouse. The winner of ...

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Sisters in Crime NSW: Chasing Killers: Candice Fox in conversation with Sue Turnbull

Gleebooks 49 Glebe Point Road, Glebe, NSW, Australia

Sisters in Crime NSW is back with two of its brightest stars. Join the impossibly entertaining Candice Fox and the impossibly well-informed Sue Turnbull in person at Gleebooks, as they re-launch Sisters in Crime NSW and talk about Candice’s new book, The Chase (Penguin). Like her 2020 novel, Gathering Dark, The Chase is set in ...

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$9 – $12

Vive la France!

France, renowned for delectable food and wine, art and romance, is also a popular setting for crime authors: the art world in Pip Drysdale’s The Paris Affair, a grand country estate in Anna Downes’s The Safe Place and the Alps in Allie Reynolds’s Shiver. Each lends a certain je ne sais quoi to the intrigue. ...

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