Category: Competitions and Opportunities

Here’s a novel idea for a writing competition— you’re given the opening and closing lines from one of three classic works and you write the rest! Hence the name the Literary Taxidermy Short Story Competition. From the Literary Taxidermy Website: The Literary Taxidermy Short Story Competition is open to all.

This week, we’re giving away three copies of  The Lebs  – a confronting new novel from The Sydney Morning Herald’s Best Young Novelist winner, Michael Mohammed Ahmad. Leb is of course short for ‘Lebanese’ and this story follows Bani Adam – who thinks his school, Punchbowl Boys, is the arse end

We were stoked to spot a familiar name in the 2018 shortlist for the Ethel Turner Prize for Young People’s Literature. Our very own creative writing AWC presenter, Nicole Hayes, has been recognised for her novel A Shadow’s Breath. From the State Library of NSW website: The Ethel Turner Prize

We’re delighted for super-talented children’s author and AWC alumnus, Tamsin Janu, who has not one, but TWO novels in the shortlist for the 2018 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards (Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children’s Literature.) Tamsin came up with the idea for her first book during her AWC course How to

This week, thanks to Madman Entertainment we have 10 double passes to The Death of Stalin – a comedy that has been banned in Russia and loosely based on true events! Here’s what is being said about it: “The one-liners fly fast as political fortunes fall in this uproarious, wickedly

This week, we’re giving away a copy of fascinating new true crime biography A Scandal in Bohemia – The Life and Death of Mollie Bean by Gideon Haigh. Creatively ambitious and sexually precocious, Mollie Bean was a poet, aspiring novelist and muse within Melbourne’s bohemian salons in the early 20th

Are you Australia’s next great storyteller? Do you have a manuscript sitting collecting dust in a drawer? A sweeping saga of unrequited love set in the Australian outback during the Gold Rush era or perhaps a nail-biting psychological thriller guaranteed to frighten the pants off the toughest of them all?

Are you a writer or illustrator for under-18s in need of some quiet time — away from it all to work on your next project? Then this is for you! From the May Gibbs Children’s Literature Website Applications are now open for The May Gibbs Children’s Literature Trust 2019 Creative

This week, 10 lucky winners of our caption competition will each win a $20 voucher to use on Dendy Direct – where you can stream new release films like Loving Vincent, Murder on the Orient Express and The Killing of a Sacred Deer all from the comfort of your own

We were sitting around at the weekly giveaway meeting the other day and thought it was about time we brought back a classic. So, that’s right, we’re reinstating our caption competition — and every week, the best caption will win a prize! This week’s prize is The Dream Handbook by

This week, we’re delighted to be giving away a book by one of our very own alumni. It’s called Quark’s Academy and it is written by children’s author (and AWC graduate!) Catherine Pelosi. We have three copies to give away. (You can find out more about Catherine’s path to publication on

We have a gnarly treat for photography (and surfing) lovers this week – a gorgeous book featuring the winners and finalists of the Nikon/Surfing Australia Surf Photo of the Year Award from 2013 to 2017. The book is The Best of the Best: Australia’s Greatest Surf Photographers – and we

The Woollahra Digital Literary Award celebrates works originally published in a digital format. So think epub, online articles and so on. It’s exciting to see an award that recognises digital publishing in its own right. Of course, it can’t be any old thing chucked up on the internet – you’ll

Kill Your Darlings, one of Australia’s awesome cultural magazines founded by Rebecca Starford and Hannah Kent, has announced that the 2018 KYD Unpublished Manuscript Award is now open! From the Kill Your Darlings website: “The KYD Unpublished Manuscript Award was established to support the development of an early-career author, provide

This week, we’re giving away three copies of Tina Brown’s “tell all” memoir, The Vanity Fair Diaries 1983-1992 – covering her eight years as editor and chief of… you guessed it… Vanity Fair magazine. These “sizzling” diaries paint a riveting portrait of the flash, dash and follies of the 1980s

This week, we’ve checked in and ordered (via room service) three copies of Rooms with a View – a fascinating book written by distinguished hotel historian and travel journalist Adrian Mourby. Adrian is a lover of grand hotels – and the world’s grandest hotels have provided glamorous backgrounds for some

This week, we’re grabbing our Akubras and heading to the bush for a very Australian genre – rural fiction. We have two books to give away: Ridgeview Station by Michael Trant: An entertaining yarn set on a vast outback property peopled with colourful and authentic characters, Ridgeview Station is about