Category: Competitions

The Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award is now open! If you are a writer under 35 years old with a polished manuscript between 30,000 – 100,000 words, do not hesitate to enter Australia’s most prestigious literary award. With a prize of $20, 000 and publication with Allen and Unwin, this is too good an opportunity to pass […]
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The TWC congratulates the winners of the 2017 Tasmanian Premier’s Literary Prizes: Tasmania Book Prize: Into the Heart of Tasmania by Rebe Taylor Margaret Scott Prize: The Museum of Modern Love by Heather Rose University of Tasmania Prize: Brodsky Dies by Adam Ouston Tasmanian Young Writer’s Fellowship: Erin Hortle See the full details at […]
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The Wildcare Nature Writing Prize 2016 is now open for entries from writers anywhere in the world. The competition is open to both fiction and non-fiction. Entries must be between 2,000, and 4,000 words and will be accepted until Sunday 29 May. The winning entrant will receive $5,000, their story will be published in Island […]
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A new short story competition has been launched in honour of eminent and accomplished Tasmanian short story writer Geoff Dean. The Geoff Dean Short Story Competition will run biennially and is open to all Australian writers for outstanding short fiction between 3000-10,000 words. Geoff Dean, who passed away in 2011 at the age of 83, […]
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Now in its 19th year, the Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize remembers Tasmania’s most acclaimed poet. Proudly sponsored by The Hobart Bookshop and Island. First Prize: $2000 + publication in Island + annual subscriptions to Island, Griffith Review, Meanjin, Overland, Review of Australian Fiction, Southerly and The Lifted Brow* Second Prize: Publication in Island + annual […]
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The Tasmanian Writers’ Centre is very proud to be associated with this new award, offering $10,000 for an unpublished manuscript by a Tasmanian writer, in memory of Dr Erica Bell. Such was the impact the late Dr Erica Bell had on Tasmania’s medical and literary world, her husband has established a Foundation in her name […]
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