Write a story up to 2000 words
Closes 8pm, 5th February 2018 The competition is now closed. Thank you for your entries. The finalists will be published on this page in March. Prizes will be awarded on the eve of the Newcastle Writers Festival at 5.30pm, 6th April 2018 City Hall |
Judges
Thank you to Newcastle City Council for funding for our judges
Isabelle Li is a Chinese born Australian writer and translator. Her collection of short stories, A Chinese Affair, was published in 2016. Her short stories have appeared in various literary journals and anthologies, including The Best Australian Stories and Southerly. She translates poetry from English to Chinese and has published in World Literature in China. Her script Mooncake and Crab was made into a short film and premiered at the Melbourne International Film Festival.
Ryan O'Neill is the author of The Weight of a Human Heart and Their Brilliant Careers, which won the 2017 Prime Minister's award for Fiction. The book was also shortlisted for the 2017 Miles Franklin Literary Award and the NSW Premier's Literary Awards. Ryan was born in Glasgow in 1975 and has lived in Africa, Europe and Asia before settling in Newcastle with his wife and two daughters. His fiction has appeared in Meanjin, The Best Australian Stories, The Sleepers Almanac, New Australian Stories, Wet Ink, Etchings and Westerly. His work has won the Hal Porter and Roland Robinson awards and been shortlisted for the Queensland Premier’s Steele Rudd Award and the Age Short-Story Prize. He teaches at the University of Newcastle.
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Prizes
First Prize $3000
Awarded by: Second Prize $1700
Awarded by: Third Prize $1000
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Highly Commended Awards
$200 cash prize from Maclean's Booksellers, Hamilton |
Commended Awards
Local awards
Newcastle Short Story Award finalists who live in the Hunter Region are eligible for these awards
- read competition conditions
Newcastle Short Story Award finalists who live in the Hunter Region are eligible for these awards
- read competition conditions
Hunter Valley Wine Selection
$120.00 voucher for your choice of wines from Macquariedale Organic Wines
A case of wine from Tamburlaine Organic wines 6 wines from Peppertree Wines valued at $120 $100 cellar door voucher from Tulloch wines - you and 9 friends are invited to an exclusive wine and cheese tasting |