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The Margaret River Short Story Competition is now open for submissions. The final judge and editor for the 2019 collection is Michelle Cahill. The competition is open to authors of any age and nationality. Winning and shortlisted stories will be published in both print and eBook format.
CLOSING 28/09/2018
Entries are now open for the 2018 New England Thunderbolt Prize for Crime Writing. In this, the sixth year of the Prize, there are six awards on offer for crime writers. All genres of crime writing are eligible, from hard-boiled to comic, paranormal to rural, historical to contemporary, noir to cosy. Entries welcome from anywhere in Australia, from published or unpublished writers.
CLOSING 30/09/2018
What’s Your Story? is a short story and poetry writing competition run by Stonnington Libraries. Winners are announced on Thursday 15 November, at the launch of Stonnington Libraries’ annual literary festival [untitled]: our writers, readers and stories.
CLOSING 30/09/2018
This competition has two categories, short story and memoir. There is no theme and there is a maximum word count of 1000 words. First place prize is $200, second place prize is $100.
CLOSING 30/09/2018
Many famous poets have written poems about science – Dorothy Porter, Emily Dickinson, and Walt Whitman, to name a few – and many in the field of science have written poetry. Announcing the Quantum Words 2018 Science Poetry Competition, run in conjunction with Writing NSW’s Quantum Words science writing festival, and in partnership with Australian Poetry.
CLOSING 1/10/2018
Early career writers of migrant background are invited to apply for the 2018 Deborah Cass prize. The winner will receive a cash prize of $3,000 plus a three-month mentorship with an established writer. There is also the opportunity for publication of the winning excerpt in Mascara Literary Review. On completion, the winning manuscript will be presented to Black Inc.
CLOSING 2/10/2018
Non-fiction competition with a theme of 'desire to escape'. Winner receives $300 and a weekend residency at the centre.
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First prize – Leon Shann Award $AU1500; second Prize $AU500; third prize $AU200.
CLOSING 7/10/2018
Ballarat Writers is now accepting entries into the Martha Richardson Memorial Poetry Prize, to be judged this year by Nathan Curnow. Winner receives $1000.
CLOSING 13/10/2018
The bequest offers a cash prize of $12,000 for the best original poem of up to 100 lines submitted to the Department of English, provided that the judging panel is of the opinion that the work is of sufficient merit to warrant the award being made. The winning poem will be published in Southerly.
CLOSING 14/10/2018
The Wollongong Writers Festival Short Story Prize will be awarded for a previously unpublished story of up to 2500 words on the theme ‘Feeding Time’. The winning entry will receive $1000 and publication in Mascara Literary Review.
CLOSING 15/10/2018
The competition has an open theme and entrants may submit poetry up to a maximum of 50 lines. Entries must also be unpublished and not have received any previous awards or recognition in any other competition. The ‘Open’ category carries a $200 First Prize, with $100 for Second and $50 for Third Prize. The Novice Poet Award $50.
CLOSING 19/10/2018
For this year's ELLE Writing Competition, in association with Hachette Australia, we're looking for modern, contemporary voices telling stories that are engaging and subversive. We want: fresh, modern, topical tales that may or may not riff on pop culture. Humour is encouraged but not essential. We don't want: stories that make us sad. The world is dark enough. While there's no specific theme, we want unpublished stories that capture the mood of the moment. Write a 4,000 word short story on the topic of your choice. The deadline for entries is October 26, so if you've got a tale to tell, what are you waiting for? The winning fiction will be published in the January/February issue of ELLE, and the author awarded a $5,000 prize. Two runners-up will receive a prize pack of recent releases from Hachette Australia worth $200.
CLOSING 26/10/2018
Joyce Parkes Women’s Writers’ Prize honours Joyce Parkes who is a well known poet living in WA. She is the patron of the prize, which aims at promoting and encouraging women writers in Australia. Limit of 1,000 to 2,000 words in prose, fact or fiction. Prize Money: $500. Topic: 'Freedom'.
CLOSING 31/10/2018
Open theme, short stories up to 500 words; poems up to 32 lines. Entry fee is $4.00. First prize is $100, second prize a twelve-month subscription to Positive Words Magazine.
CLOSING 31/10/2018
Entries are open to writers of all ages that are resident in Australia. The prizes will be $500 for the overall winner and $250 for the runner up.
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Seeking creative nonfiction essays between 200 - 1000 words on any topic and in any style--from personal essay to lyric essay to hybrid and more! The mission of this contest is to reward bravery in real-life storytelling and create an understanding of our world through thoughtful, engaging narratives. Electronic submissions via e-mail only; reprints are okay; multiple submissions are okay as long as they are submitted in their own individual e-mail. Open internationally.
CLOSING 31/10/2018
The Commonwealth Short Story Prize is awarded for the best piece of unpublished short fiction (2,000–5,000 words) in English. Regional winners receive £2,500 and the overall winner receives £5,000. Translated entries are also eligible, as are stories written in the original Bengali, Chinese, Kiswahili, Malay, Portuguese, Samoan and Tamil. The competition is free to enter.
CLOSING 1/11/2018
In 2019, the New Critic Award is once again open to critics working in all fields of arts and culture (books, film, television, theatre, music, dance, performance, visual arts, etc). This year we’re particularly interested in writing that speaks to the changing nature of arts criticism – whether that be critiquing an underexamined art form, experimenting with prose style and structure, or highlighting new or underrepresented voices and perspectives.
CLOSING 2/11/2018
Odyssey House Victoria invites all writers to enter in our annual Short Story Competition. This years theme is “Reflection”, an essential process for transforming experiences into genuine learning . This competition is open to writers of all ages and experience and submissions are due by the 2nd of November. Happy writing!
CLOSING 2/11/2018
Established in 2007 and supported by the Malcolm Robertson Foundation, the Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Poets seeks outstanding poetry by writers who have published no more than one collection of poems under their own name (i.e. writers who’ve had zero collections published, or one solo collection published). It remains one of the richest prizes for emerging poets, and is open to poets anywhere in the world. In 2018, the major prize is $6000, with a second prize of $2000 and a third prize of $1000. All three winners will be published in the first issue of Overland’s print magazine of 2019.
CLOSING 19/11/2018
Supported by the Malcolm Robertson Foundation, and named after the late Neilma Gantner, this prize seeks excellent short fiction of up to 3000 words themed around the notion of ‘travel’; imaginative, creative and literary interpretations are strongly encouraged. This competition is open to all writers, nationally and internationally, at any stage of their writing career. The winning story will receive a $4000 first prize and be published in Overland’s first print issue for 2019. Two runners-up will each receive $500 and be published at Overland online to coincide with the release of the print magazine.
CLOSING 19/11/2018
Entries to be relevant to Australia or Australians and to be written with accurate rhyme and metre. First Prize: $400, Blackened Billy Trophy and certificate.
CLOSING 23/11/2018
The Penguin Literary Prize endeavours to find, nurture and develop new Australian authors writing in the areas of literary fiction, and is a nod to Penguin Random House’s literary heritage as the great Australian house of literature.
CLOSING 25/11/2018
WOW! Women on Writing invites entries to its Fall 2018 Flash Fiction Contest. The honorable guest judge this season is Literary Agent Heather Flaherty with The Bent Agency. Seeking short fiction of any genre between 250 - 750 words. The mission of this contest is to inspire creativity and provide well-rewarded recognition to contestants. Electronic submissions via e-mail only; reprints are okay; multiple submissions are okay as long as they are submitted in their own individual e-mail. Open internationally.
CLOSING 30/11/2018
The competition is open to original, unpublished poems in the English language of less than 40 lines. The poem can be on any subject, in any style, by a writer of any nationality, living anywhere in the world. First place prize is €1000, a week's residency at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, paid travel expenses (up to €600) and 4 nights accomodation in Cork city during the Cork International Poetry Festival (March 27-30) and publication in Southword Journal.
CLOSING 30/11/2018
The Jim Hamilton Award for an unpublished novel of more than 30,000 words is open and closes on 30 November 2018. This year the award carries a first prize of one thousand dollars ($1000) with one award for highly commended and two awards for commended manuscripts. Entry fee is $20. FAW members $15.
CLOSING 30/11/2018
The competition is open to all poets (see Rules set out below). FIRST PRIZE: $200.00, SECOND PRIZE: $50.00, HIGHLY COMMENDED CERTIFICATES. Theme: Freedom CLOSING DATE: 30th November 2018 For further information email the Competition Secretary at: wendylaing02@gmail.com
CLOSING 30/11/2018
There are six prizes which will be awarded by the InkTears judging panel: Winner: £1,000, Runner-up: £100, 6x Highly Commended: £25. All prize winners will get their story published to the InkTears Readership and their bio published on the InkTears site.
CLOSING 30/11/2018
Australian Book Review welcomes entries in the fifteenth Peter Porter Poetry Prize. The Porter Prize, which is worth a total of AU$8,500, is open until 3 December 2018. The Porter Prize is one of Australia’s most lucrative and respected awards for poetry. It honours the life and work of the great Australian poet Peter Porter (1929–2010), an honoured contributor to ABR for many years. All poets writing in English are eligible to enter. First Prize: AU$5,000 and Arthur Boyd’s etching and aquatint The lady and the unicorn, 1975.
CLOSING 3/12/2018
The Buzz Words Short Story Prize is a new annual prize of $1,000 awarded to recognise excellence in short story writing for children. The story must be suitable for readers 8 to 11 years.
CLOSING 31/12/2018
The Calibre Essay Prize is one of the world’s leading prizes for a new essay and it is now worth a total of $7,500. The Calibre Essay Prize, then known as the Calibre Prize for an Outstanding Essay, was first presented in 2007 to Elisabeth Holdsworth for her essay 'An die Nachgeborenen: For Those Who Come After' as part of a joint initiative between ABR and Copyright Agency's Cultural Fund. Entry is now open for 2019 Calibre Essay Prize. Founded in 2007 and now worth a total of AU$7,500 the Calibre Prize is one of the world’s leading prizes for a new non-fiction essay. Entry is open to all essayists writing in English. We are seeking essays of between 2,000 and 5,000 words on any subject. We welcome essays of all kinds: personal or political, literary or speculative, traditional or experimental.
CLOSING 14/01/2019
Fantastica invites Australian and New Zealand writers to submit science fiction manuscripts for consideration. Winners will have their manuscript carefully shepherded to publication by an editor and the Fantastica team. The winning novel will be professionally designed with our usual flair and unleashed in digital and printed form in bookshops, on our website and ebook retailers.
CLOSING 31/01/2019
The Knight Visiting Nieman Fellowships at Harvard offer short-term research opportunities to individuals interested in working on special projects designed to advance journalism. Since this initiative’s inception in 2012, the Nieman Foundation has awarded 42 visiting fellowships ranging between two and twelve weeks. Candidates need not be practicing journalists, but must demonstrate the ways in which their work at Harvard and the Nieman Foundation may improve the prospects for journalism’s future.
CLOSING 28/09/2018
The Ian Wilson Memorial Fellowship will give an emerging author or illustrator creative time away from home in Adelaide for 21 nights in March 2019. This aims to be a gift of time and support, enabling you to concentrate intensively on the development of new work, as well as offering networking opportunities and professional development.
CLOSING 30/09/2018
Our 2018-19 Fellowship program gives emerging narrative writers skills, support, and a platform to create change through great screen stories. A fellowship program comprising one introductory day (late 2018), four workshop days (early 2019), and a series of roundtables (early – mid 2019). The fellowship will give you information, insights, skills, and support, to develop powerful narratives that change the story on issues that matter. The fellowship pays an Emerging Artist Fee to participating writers.
CLOSING 30/09/2018
A paid residency to develop new work in languages other than English, over eight weeks at LOST IN BOOKS, in Fairfield, South Western Sydney. Artists or artistic teams will be paid $2500 per project accepted into the residency. We are looking for writers, translators, illustrators, graphic novelists, poets...anyone making new literary works is welcome to apply alone or as a team.
CLOSING 5/10/2018
The KSP Writers’ Centre is proud to host this annual Fellowship program for Australian adult authors providing two-week placements for dedicated aspiring and emerging writers looking to advance their career and develop a project at a professional level. Successful applicants are gifted with the time and space to work in an inspirational environment with special access to Katharine’s Cottage, where celebrated novelist Katharine Susannah Prichard wrote most of her life works.
CLOSING 28/10/2018
We’re looking for fantastic, previously unpublished prose—non-fiction especially, but we will consider fiction and poetry—on nature by writers of colour worldwide. If you're unsure if your piece fits the bill, let's just say we believe nature writing can tackle all sorts of issues: from stories of farming to stories of long treks, tales of migration, racism, community, and beauty. You might be writing about remote places, cities, lost landscapes, or old homes. We're looking forward to seeing what matters most to emerging nature writers. Above all, your submission should have a great sense of place and attention to the natural world. Submissions must be finished work. TWR accepts English-language submissions by BAME writers, writers of colour, and Indigenous writers. You can be located anywhere in the world, but the main language of the submission should be English.
CLOSING 26/09/2018
Our final project for 2018 will be the publication of a series of up to five chapbooks of new poetry. These will be issued in a uniform edition and published in the last quarter of 2018. Collections may include some previously published poems, but should emphasize new, unpublished work. We are happy to consider collections of individual poems, but would also like to see any cycles of poems, or series of connected poems. We will also consider longer poems.
CLOSING 30/09/2018
Please send up to 3 unpublished poems in the body of an email to the editors at juniperpoetry@gmail.com. In your cover letter, please include the titles of your poems and a short bio (max. 75 words). No attachments please. We encourage simultaneous submissions, but please email us immediately if you have to withdraw one or more of your poems. We try to respond to submissions within three months.
CLOSING 30/09/2018
Augur Magazine is currently OPEN to Fiction & Poetry submissions until September 30! Please use our submission portal, Moksha, to submit. We’re looking for dream-touched realism, slipstream, fabulism, magical realism (note: educate yourself before you claim this term) and, for lack of a better descriptor, “literary” speculative fiction. We accept YA and adult pieces, and possibly children’s as well (more likely for comics than otherwise). Our perfect submission defies categorization—pieces that could be “too speculative” for CanLit magazines or “not speculative enough” for speculative magazines. That said, we’re no strangers to rich realism, high fantasy, and science fiction, so if you think you match our tone, give us a try. We recommend checking out our preview issue, free online, or grabbing an issue, to see what we’ve published before.
CLOSING 30/09/2018
There will be two print issues per year, in May and in November. Submissions close on March 31 and September 30 respectively. Poets may submit up to six tanka for consideration but no more than two poems by an individual poet will be selected for any single issue. Poems must be original, unpublished (in print or on the internet), not broadcast and not under consideration elsewhere. Poems posted on the internet, including social media forums such as blog, twitter, facebook, etc., where there is multiple access, are considered published and are not eligible for Eucalypt.
CLOSING 30/09/2018
Lost Balloon publishes flash fiction, flash nonfiction, and prose poetry (all 1,000 words or less). We publish one new piece every Wednesday. There are no theme or genre restrictions, but we want your best. Give us work that entertains and challenges, that pushes boundaries and breaks hearts. Lost Balloon will be open for submissions during the first week (seven days) of each month. That means August 1-7, September 1-7, October 1-7, and so on. We’ll be taking submission breaks in July and December in 2018.
SUBMISSIONS OPEN 1/10/2018
RABBIT is currently accepting submissions of nonfiction poetry for Issue 26: The BELONGING Issue, to be guest edited by Sydney-based poet Eileen Chong.
CLOSING 1/10/2018
Brevity publishes well-known and emerging writers working in the extremely brief (750 words or less) essay form. We have featured work from two Pulitzer prize finalists, many NEA fellows, Pushcart winners, Best American authors, and writers from India, Egypt, Ireland, Spain, Malaysia, Qatar, and Japan. We have also featured numerous previously-unpublished authors, and take a special joy in helping to launch a new literary career. Over the past year Brevity has averaged 10,000 unique visitors per month.
CLOSING 31/10/2018
Bloodhound Books are renowned in the industry for producing high quality crime and mystery thrillers. Our dedicated team of industry professionals have a real passion for working closely with our authors to create the very best books. Our unique and personal approach has helped debut and bestselling authors across the world achieve outstanding success.
CLOSING 31/10/2018
The ABC is looking for radio and podcast drama series from experienced writers who are new to the audio medium. Submissions are for audio series of between four to eight episodes, of up to a maximum of 25 minutes duration for each episode. The call-out is open to writers of fiction, memoir, theatre or screen with little or no experience writing for the audio medium. You must be a published writer to submit a work. This includes works that have been professionally performed, but not self-published works. Please provide a bio and links to your previously published work.
CLOSING 4/11/2018
Coffin Bell is an online journal of dark literature edited by Tamara Burross Grisanti and a staff of volunteer editors. Coffin Bell is looking for poetry, flash fiction, short stories, and creative nonfiction (see our guidelines for word counts). Send us your waking nightmares, dystopian flash, dark CNF, cursed verse. CURRENT CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: “MAGIC”–make us think in a new way about all things magical (or magickal). This includes magical realism. Give us your underhanded magicians, unscrupulous witches, devious wizards, and ways to think about magic that haven’t even occurred to us. Free submissions start July 1st, Tip Jar submissions open now!
CLOSING 31/12/2018
Passages North is now open for submissions in Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction/Hybrids, and Short-Shorts. Please see individual genre guidelines before submitting. Note that we are open for Fiction submissions from Sept 1-Oct 15 and Jan 1-Feb 15. All other genres remain open from Sept 1-Apr 15. Please note that your submission, especially if it is on the shorter side, may be considered for online publication.
CLOSING 15/04/2018
SWEATY CITY is a youth journal of creative non-fiction, environmental journalism and science writing that aims to engage young people living in Sydney about environmental issues. We are currently seeking long-form journalism about urban ecologies, city-dwelling native species, stories of climate change and the intersection of cityscapes and nature for our first print edition.
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Salt Hill publishes poetry, prose, translations, reviews, essays, interviews, and artwork. We read submissions for the magazine between August 1 and April 1 of each year and for the Philip Booth Poetry Award between May 15 and August 1.
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Baby Teeth Journal is a literary and multi-media arts publication based in Wollongong NSW. We have a focus on local, queer creators but accept submissions from across the globe. We welcome submissions from almost every artistic medium. Flat rate of $50.
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The Threepenny Review is one of the most well renowned and respected literary journals in America. They publish authors from all over the world, and many famous writers, both poets and fiction writers have been published in The Threepenny Review. The Threepenny review also pays very well. They pay $400 per short story and $200 per poem. This is a good amount of money for even a print journal to offer its contributors. It is far more than most literary publications offer.
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Renaissance Magazine accepts the following unsolicited content related to the Renaissance and Middle Ages for consideration: Articles related to history, travel, Renaissance Faires, the SCA and related reenactment groups; Interviews with artists, artisans, performers, reenactors, and scholars; Book reviews (historical fiction and nonfiction are acceptable); and Music CDs and CD reviews. The average feature article is approximately 1,500 words. Features pay 10 cents/word. Columns of 500 to 1,000 words pay $50. Columns of 200 to 400 words pay $25.
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The Vault is an online periodical that adheres to the limitation of Twitter publishing. We consider all types of fiction with one condition – your story must be based on science.
OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS FROM THE 10TH - 24TH OF EVERY MONTH
We’re always on the lookout for short, engaging essays. We tend to favor work about the life, work, and process of writing, publishing, visual art, or any other creative pursuit. We’re also interested in the interplay of the arts and tech, whether drawn from your personal experience, or from observations of the world at large. Often, though, we don’t know what we’re looking for until we see it, so feel free to send something our way that we might find to be unexpectedly perfect for our blog and readership.
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We commission writing about film, television, video games, moving image art and the internet, including critical analyses and fresh perspectives about specific works and makers, “How to do it” guides by experts to inspire other makers, historical explainers of movements and phenomena, personal responses to moving image works, and interviews with moving image makers. We don’t commission evaluative reviews (like a film or game review with a star rating, etc). The writing should illuminate the work and help the reader to connect with it more deeply.
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Overland accepts pitches on any subject on an ongoing basis, but they are currently looking for articles on: universal basic income, bitcoin, university management, Netflix algorithms, and Goodreads.
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TLB publishes work on its website that fits into two categories: TLB Review of Books or Commentary, and we welcome pitches for both.
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Submissions for our New Voices category are open year round. New Voices is open to any new and emerging author who has not published a work of fiction or narrative nonfiction of novel length. You must not have a novel forthcoming at the time of submission. Published short-story collections do not count as a novel-length work and those authors are free to submit. New Voices are published online only and will feature a number of stories from new authors each month.
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Archer publishes articles and images about sexuality, gender and identity from a diverse range of writers/artists, from all levels of experience.Archer is aimed at all individuals interested in sexuality, gender and equality. Archer promotes inclusivity, regardless of gender identity, geographical location, ethnic identity, sexual orientation or level of education.
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We accept unsolicited material, if it is polished and fits the tone and style of the magazine, is clearly targeted at a particular section of the magazine and falls within the word counts relevant to a particular section. (For example 750 words for 'My Word' submissions or 1800 for a four-page feature; see the attached 'Word Counts' information box.)
Alternatively, writers can pitch story ideas by email first. To be considered, your pitch should explain which section of the magazine the story is intended for, be one paragraph long, contain a topic sentence, a sample introductory sentence and explain the story angle, writing tone, suggested word length, a list of possible interviewees (if appropriate) and whether or not photographs and/or illustrative material is available.
If your story is linked to a particular event (or date, or anniversary) you must pitch it at least two months before the event takes place. Important note: as a national publication, we are unlikely to accept stories that have a specifically local focus. If we like your idea, we will call or email you to discuss it further.
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Earth Island Journal is always looking for compelling and distinctive stories that anticipate environmental concerns before they become pressing problems, stories that scan the horizon for the next big issue. We want stories that will surprise, provoke, and entertain our readers and that explore new territory overlooked by other publications.
Our readership is international, so please don’t pitch stories on local issues unless they have broader (read: national or international) interest or implications. Please read through our magazine’s current and back issues (archives are available online) to get a better idea of the kind of stories we publish before you send a query.
We pay writers 25¢/word print stories. You can expect to earn about $750-$1000 for an in-depth feature story (about 4,000 words).
For online reports, the fee ranges from $50 to $100. Online reports are a great way to get into the Journal, especially if you are new to reporting and writing. We publish online five days a week and are always looking for fresh ideas.
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Electric Athenaeum is a Science Fiction and Fantasy magazine publishing short fiction, articles, poetry, and interviews. Each issue features an accompanying theme, and is available for free to readers. They are open to submissions for this issue’s theme, Future Generations, and consider any genre of speculative fiction. They pay £50 per story.
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Forever is the romance imprint of Grand Central Publishing. Grand Central Publishing is an imprint of the Hachette Book Group, one of the big five publishers. Forever Yours is the digital sister of Forever, they focus on publishing unagented authors, and often publish authors without a publication history. They publish eBooks, but they an option to print on demand any book over 50,000 words in length.
Fairlight Books is currently open for literary submissions of short stories, novellas and novels. We are happy to accept submissions of longer fiction direct from authors.Fairlight Books is currently open for literary submissions of short stories, novellas and novels. We are happy to accept submissions of longer fiction direct from authors.
Walker Wednesday allows budding authors to submit their manuscripts to Walker Books’ award-winning editorial team on the first Wednesday of each month. Walker Books is currently accepting submissions of middle grade and young adult fiction from Australian and New Zealand authors.
Do you have a manuscript you would like Penguin to consider? Penguin Group have what’s known as the ‘Monthly Catch’. During the first week of every month, you can submit unsolicited manuscripts for their consideration.
On the first Monday of every month only, between 10am and 4pm Australian Eastern Standard Time, we accept electronic submissions that comply with the guidelines set out below.
Manuscript submissions sent on any other Mondays or day of the month will not be read so we advise you to wait until the next month if you miss the deadline.
We are looking for:
Commercial fiction – women’s fiction, romance, thriller, crime, historical, humour, paranormal, fantasy
Literary fiction and non-fiction – novels, short stories, and narrative non-fiction only
Children’s books and young adult – junior and middle grade fiction, young adult/crossover fiction; we are not accepting picture book submissions
Commercial non-fiction – history, memoir, mind body spirit, travel, health, diet, biography
Please familiarise yourself with what we publish. We do not publish scripts, plays or poetry in Australia and will not assess them.
Academic submissions are not accepted during Manuscript Monday.
Right Now is committed to covering human rights issues in Australia through free, accessible, creative and engaging online, print and radio media.
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Scum is interested in publishing feminist-friendly work of any variety, but as a general rule your piece should be under 1000 words (50 lines for poetry) and able to be classified as “fiction”, “culture”, “memoir”, “column”, “poetry”, and/or “review”. They tend not to publish traditional reviews of books and films—to get a feel for the reviews they do publish, check the review tag. Feel free to pitch to them if you’re not sure if your piece is a good fit. (Please note that they don’t accept pitches for fiction or poetry.)
Submissions to Scum are open the first week (from the 1st to the 7th) of every month. The rest of the month, submissions are closed. They pay $60 per piece of writing.
At Seizure, short-form work is living large. Flashers is the online home of Australian flash fiction.
Each week we publish work between 50 and 500 words that could be written in an hour and read in a minute. We are looking for short, sharp snippets of prose. But flash fiction is so much more than a quick-fix for the time-hungry wordaholic. Flash fiction attracts writers and readers for its peculiar challenges – and authors have to make every word count.
Accepted pieces will have an accompanying illustration by a volunteer artist that matches and complements the writing. Thanks to the Australia Council, we are able to pay our Flasher contributors $50 for each published piece.
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SLICE magazine welcomes submissions for short fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. We’re looking for anyone with a fresh voice and a compelling story to share—basically any work that really knocks our socks off. At the core, Slice aims to bridge the gap between emerging and established authors by offering a space where both are published side-by-side. In each issue, a specific cultural theme becomes the catalyst for articles, interviews, stories, and poetry from renowned writers and lesser known voices alike. We offer all contributors to Slice a monetary award for their work ($250 for stories and essays and $75 for poems).
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