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Another competition is this one from the Ballarat Writers Group, closing October 16.
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Another competition closing soon is the Lord Mayor's Creative Writing Award. Yes, it's a big comp (nice prizes) but it's also for emerging writers and has free entry so, nothing to lose. Entries close 31 August.
Open to emerging writers residing in Victoria you can find all details at: www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/lmcwa Entries close 6pm, 31 August 2015. The Shearwater Festival was successful in receiving funding from Regional Arts Victoria and is looking for artists to perform in any media for some Short Tales during the Festival in the theme of Caring for Country. Attached is the Expression of Interest form for anyone interested. Closing date is Friday 21 August 2015.
The Shearwater Festival has recently been successful in attracting a Regional Arts Victoria grant of $13,450 to fund a project ‘Shearwater Short Tales: Facilitating Creative Collaborations across Gippsland’. Shearwater Short Tales will be a new element of Phillip Island’s annual Shearwater Festival, taking place on 21st and 22nd November, 2015. It will feature creative collaborations between artists, performers and Indigenous cultural advisors from Bass Coast to Mallacoota. The project is a creative development opportunity in which community members will be supported to develop ten short productions of 10 minutes or less in theatre, song, music, dance, poetry, film or visual media. Now in its fourth year, the award-winning Shearwater Festival is a creative, cultural and environmental event which brings communities together to celebrate the return of the Short-tailed Shearwaters (Ardenna tenuirostris, formerly Puffinus tenuirostris) from their 15,000 kilometre migration. The Festival is auspiced by the Victorian Aboriginal Corporation of Languages in partnership with Bass Coast Shire Council and Phillip Island Nature Parks and has a strong focus on cultural regeneration and language revival. The theme of the Festival in 2015 is ‘Caring for Country’. Within the Shearwater Short Tales project, three creative development workshops and on-going mentoring sessions will be facilitated by mentors and cultural advisors to pass on skills needed to bring productions to performance standard. The ten productions will be performed at the Shearwater Festival, five from Bass Coast and five from Mallacoota. Up to $1000 is available for each production to cover project costs, cultural advisors, travel and accommodation. Successful proposals will align with the Festival theme of ‘Caring for Country’, promote community participation and creative engagement, and will incorporate environmental, creative and cultural elements. If you are interested in submitting a proposal for a Shearwater Short Tale and would be available to attend the Creative Development Workshops (5th September, 3rd October, 7th November), a rehearsal (20th November) and the Shearwater Festival itself (21st, 22nd November), please complete Call for Expressions of Interest - The Shearwater Short Tales Project 1 a Shearwater Short Tales Proposal Form and email it to Dr Laura Brearley, Chair of the Shearwater Festival Working Group [email protected] by COB Friday, 21st August 2015. Proposal Forms are available from the Shearwater Festival website http://www.shearwaterfestival.com.au the VACL website http://www.vaclang.org.au and the Bass Coast Shire Council website http://www.basscoast.vic.gov.au The Coal Creek Short Story and Poetry comp is on again, with entries closing September 25. If you don't know about this, here's a bit of info from their website. Otherwise, go here to download the entry form. You have to send your entry in by mail.
The Coal Creek Literary Festival will be running a number of writing competitions this year as part of the festival. The main competition will again be the Bert van Bedaf Memorial Award for the best short story. Bert was an integral part of getting the Coal Creek Literary Festival off the ground 8 years ago. After Bert passed away in 2010, the open short story competition was renamed to honour his memory. The prize money was increased to $500 and has since drawn a very high standard of entries. Past winning entries have been posted on the Coal Creek Literary Festival web site, please see link above. The competition is open to anyone with an imagination, a pen and paper or word processing program. You can enter as many times as you like, each entry must have a $15 entry fee. The festival will also be running two poetry competitions. The Open Poetry competition offers a $200 prize, while the under 18 poetry competition is offering a $100 prize. There will also be a $100 prize for the under 18 short story competition. Past winners in all categories are on the Coal Creek Literary Festival website. Now entering its 4th year, the Bert van Bedaf award has proved to be a very popular part of the Coal Creek Literary festival with entries coming from all over Australia. Entry forms can be downloaded from the Coal Creek Literary Festival web site or can be picked up from Coal Creek in Korumburra. Conditions and entry fees are all on the entry form. So if you have a story crawling around in your head, something Grand Pa did when he was a kid, a weird dream crying out for a meaning, get it down on paper and send it in. It could be worth $500. The Lane Cove Literary Awards are closing on 26 August 2015. There is still time to enter and be in contention to win the following prizes:
Short Story - $2,000
A new writers' prize - the notJack Writers' Prize - was launched at the recent Bendigo Writers Festival.
The link for the prize website: https://notjackwritersprize.wordpress.com/. The entry form, guidelines and other prize details are listed there. The theme of the prize is 'writing from place'. It is a deliberately broad theme designed to encourage entrants from all genres, whose writing demonstrates creative engagement with place and/or shapes the significance of place for Australian writers and their readership. Entries may be up to 3000 words or 40 lines of poetry. There are three cateogries - youth, open and Baringhup. Entry fees are either $10 or $20 according to category. The prize closes November 1st. Writers are welcome to contact me using this address or on 044 88 55 832. So the folks at Busybird have emailed us to let us know about their Life Writing Retreat at a place called Karma Kinglake, on 9-10th of October. Billed as 'a two-day program that will transform your writing life', it looks amazing and luxurious. Certainly the conditions for getting some amazing words out? The cost starts at $995 (an earlybird payment option closes August 25). All meals, accommodation and instruction included. For more details, go here.
Busybird have other workshops and competitions they run through the year. It's worth checking out their website and Facebook page for updates. |
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