WORKSHOP: Writing Your Best Short Story
Saturday 29 November
10 am – 4 pm
In-person – Joy Cummings Centre
Online via Zoom
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Join Catherine McNamara, judge and editor of the 2024 and 2025 Newcastle Short Story Award, for a practical workshop on the contemporary short story. You’ll explore ideas, openings, structure, voice, dialogue, revision and submissions, with examples from award-winning stories.
FLESH – Call for Submissions from Writers and Storytellers with Disability
Submissions close Sun 16 Nov
Event: Sun 30 Nov,
4 pm – 6pm
Live at Bernies Bar
Online at Zoom.
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Calling writers and storytellers with disability. We are calling out for stories on the themes of flesh. Send us the stories that live under your skin.
Hunter Writers’ Centre Announces Multi-Year Create NSW Funding
Multi-year funding strengthens our ability to support the writers, stories and storytellers of the Hunter region and beyond.
Omar Musa Wins first and second prize of Newcastle Short Story Award
Omar Musa, a Bornean-Australian author, visual artist, rapper and poet from Queanbeyan, NSW, has won first and second prize in the 2024 Newcastle Short Story Award.
Newcastle Short Story Award – Shortlist Announced
COMPETITION CLOSED
Hunter Writers’ Centre is thrilled to announce the shortlist of the Newcastle Short Story Award, celebrating outstanding short fiction from writers across Australia.
2023 Newcastle Short Story Award Shortlist
Hunter Writers’ Centre is pleased to announce twenty-nine standout stories as the 2023 Newcastle Short Story Award shortlist.
Yinal and Ngirrinbai by Bronwyn Frost
‘Yinal and Ngirrinbai’ by Bronwyn Frost. First published in ‘where the fairy tales go’ by Hunter Writers’ Centre