Writing Opportunities for All
If you are looking for information about writing competitions and other publishing opportunities, then you’ve come to the right place!
This page will be regularly updated as the details of more opportunities come to hand, so check back here every so often.
Always be sure to head to the competition or journal’s own submission page and read all of the submission guidelines before submitting your work. Where possible, you are strongly encouraged to read previous issues to gauge the sort of work they accept and ensure your work is suited to that publication or publisher.
1. Anthology Flash Fiction Competition
The brief: submit an original, unpublished flash fiction piece, written in English with a maximum of 250 words.
Entry fee: €15.
Prize: €300 cash prize and the chance to see their work published in a future issue of Anthology
Closing date: extended until Monday 20 October 2025.
More information: visit the Anthology‘s website.
2. KSP Poetry Prize
The brief: Submit a poem of up to 50 lines.
Open to: Australian residents (Western Australian resident for the Annette Cameron Encouragement Award).
Categories: Youth KSP Poetry Awards (10 to 17 years); Open KSP Poetry Awards (18 years plus); Annette Cameron Encouragement Award (for current West Australian residents over the age of 18 who have never published a full collection of poetry either in print or online).
Entry fee: free for youth; $10 for other categories.
Prizes: First place $300 prize for open plus weekend residency at the KSP Writers’ Centre (non-transferable, $300 value) and $100 first place prize for youth; Annette Cameron Award for an Unpublished WA Poet: $150; second place certificates with $150 prize for open and $50 for youth; up to five commended certificates for both open and youth; Mundaring National Young Writers encouragement award for under 14s with $25 prize.
Closing date: Sunday 26 October 2025.
More information: visit KSP’s website.
3. KSP Short Fiction Competition
The brief: submit fiction on an open theme.
Open to: Australian residents.
Categories and word limits: youth (up to 1,000 words per entry); adult (up to 2,500 per entry).
Entry fees: youth (up to 17 years)—Free, limit of one entry per person; adult (18 plus): $10 per entry, no limit on entries.
Prizes: First place $300 prize for open plus weekend residency at the KSP Writers’ Centre (non-transferable, $300 value) and $100 first place prize for youth; second place certificates with $150 prize for open and $50 for youth; up to five commended certificates for both open and youth; Mundaring National Young Writers encouragement award for under 14s with $25 prize.
Closing date: Sunday 26 October 2025.
More information: visit the KSP Writers’ Centre’s website.
4. Tom Collins Poetry Prize
The brief: submit poems up to 60 lines.
Entry fee: $20 – $25.
Closing date: Friday 31 October 2025.
More information: visit the Fellowship of Australian Writers WA (FAWWA) website.
5. 2025 Hope Prize
The brief: submit fiction and non-fiction stories of hope.
Entry fee: $20 for early bird and $30 for regular entry.
Closing date: Friday 31 October 2025.
For more information: visit the Hope Prize website.
6. Totally Lit Micro Fiction Prize
The brief: submit a story up to 500 words, which must include the code word DIVERSITY within the body of the story submission.
Entry fee: $15 (with $5 going to support the ASLA DANZ Awards.
Prizes: a list of these can be found on the competition website.
Closing date: Friday 31 October 2025.
For more information: visit KY Garvey’s website.
7. The Best of Times Short Story Competition
The brief: submit a humorous story up to 2,500 words on any theme.
Entry fee: $10 per story.
Prizes: First prize (60% of total entry fees received); second prize (15% of total entry fees received); third prize (5% of total entry fees received); there will also be certificates for highly commended and commended stories.
Closing date: Friday 31 October 2025.
More information: head to the Wild Thoughts website.
8. Anthology Poetry Competition
The brief: submit original and previously unpublished poems up to 40 lines. Open theme.
Entry fee: €18.
Prizes: €1000 & publication for first prize; €250 for second prize; €150 for third prize.
Closing date: Friday 31 October 2025.
More information: visit Anthology Magazine website.
9. Anthology Cover Art Award
The brief: submit a piece of cover art.
Open to: multiple genres including painting, printmaking, mixed media, photography and digital media.
Entry fee: €18.
Prizes: the winner will receive €500 and publication on the cover of – and editorial coverage in – a future issue of Anthology.
Closing date: Friday 31 October 2025.
More information: visit Anthology‘s website.
10. Island Graphic Narratives 2026
The brief: submit pitches that includes a short proposal of around two paragraphs, outlining your concept, how you’d approach the art. Up to five image files may be attached. Acceptable file types: .pdf, .tif, .jpg, .doc. Please do not submit previously published or completed works, we are seeking new material only.
Closing date: Wednesday 5 November 2025.
Contributor fee (payment): $1600 for each selected 8-page work.
More information: visit Island‘s website or their submittable page.
11. Anthology Travel Writing Competition
The brief: submit original and previously unpublished travel articles up to 1000 words.
Entry fee: €15.
Prizes: the winner will receive €300 and the chance to see their work published in a future issue of Anthology.
Closing date: Sunday 30 November 2025.
More information: visit Anthology‘s website.
12. Anthology Photography Competition
The brief: submit an image on the theme of ‘The World As You See It’.
Entry fee: €18.
Prizes: the winner will receive a €500 cash prize and editorial coverage in a future issue of Anthology magazine.
Closing date: Sunday 30 November 2025.
More information: visit Anthology‘s website.
13. Newcastle Poetry Prize
The brief: submit poems no longer than 200 lines, including title and any subheadings. There is no minimum.. This can include a “suite of poems”.
Entry fee: $30.25 ($27.50 + GST) for Hunter Writers’ Centre members. Entry fees for non-members are $35.2 ($32 + GST) per entry.
Prizes: First Prize – $15,000; Second Prize – $3,000; Third Prize – $1,500; Harri Jones Memorial Prize – $1,500 (for poets under 36 years); Jan Dean Members Prize – $1,000 (awarded to a Hunter Writers’ Centre member); Kade Fenwick Prize – $500 (recognising poetry from First Nations and trans voices). Non-prize-winning shortlisted poems receive a $100 publication fee for each poem included in the anthology.
Closing date: Sunday 7 December 2025.
More information: visit the Hunter Writers Centre website.
14. FAW Tasmania 2026 Nairda Lyne Award
The brief: submit an original, unpublished short story suitable for children aged 8 to 12 years, up to 1,000 words.
Entry fee: $5 per story.
Prizes: First Prize $100 and winner’s name inscribed on a plaque in the State Library Launceston Branch. Hobart Bookshop voucher for the best Tasmanian entry.
Closing date: Tuesday 31 March 2026.
More information: visit FAW Tasmania’s website and scroll down to the relevant competition.
Over to You
Which writing opportunity will you take up?