2023 Blacktown Mayoral Creative Writing Prize EXTRAordinary
The 2023 Blacktown Mayoral Creative Writing Prize is open to adults and children ages 8 and above. Entries can be in the form of short story or poetry responding to the theme: EXTRAordinary. Total prize pool of over $1,600.
Key dates
Entries open: 1st July, 2022
Entries close: Monday 2 October, 2023
Launch & Winners Announcement: Thursday 14 December, 2023 at 6 pm to 7 pm
Entry fee: Free
2023 Fisher’s Ghost
The 2023 Fisher’s Ghost Writing Prize is open to adults and children in Grade 4 and above, who live, or go to school, in Campbelltown City. Entries can be in the form of short story, narrative non-fiction, memoir or poetry responding to the theme: Another step into tomorrow.
Key dates
Entries open: 9am, 30 June, 2023
Entries close: 9am, 4th September, 2023
Launch & Winners Announcement: TBA
Entry fee: Free
2023 Living Stories
The 2023 Living Stories is a writing competition open to writers aged 10yrs and up living in Western Sydney. Entries can be in the form of poems, short stories, essays and memoirs responding to theme: the other city. It will be judged by local area before a second round to select overall winners. Total prize pool of over $10,000.
Key dates
Entries open: 1st April, 2023
Entries close: midnight, Sunday 30th April, 2023
Launch & Winners Announcement: TBA
Entry fee: Free
The Blake Poetry Prize
The Blake Poetry Prize challenges Australian poets to explore the spiritual and religious in a new work of 100 lines or less. The Prize is a biennial event. The 2021 Prize is now closed. Entries will open again in mid 2023.
The judges for the 2021 Blake Poetry Prize were multi award-winning poet and winner of the 2013 Blake Poetry Prize, Anthony Lawrence, Juan Garrido Salgado, a Chilian Australia poet who came to Australia in 1990 fleeing the regime that burned his poetry and imprisoned and tortured him for his activism, and the immediate past Blake Poetry Prize winner Judith Nangala Crispin. This year the Prize attracted over 500 entries from across Australia and internationally from countries including Germany, Hong Kong, India, Thailand, New Zealand, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom and the United States. The winner recieves $5,000 in prize money.
The poetry prize is delivered in collaboration with Western Sydney literacy organisation, WestWords and Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre.
CLICK HERE to hear the shortlisted and winning poets read their work.
