2021 Newcastle Short Story Award
Open for entries
$7500 in prizes
Closes 8pm (AEDT), Wednesday 14th April, 2021
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2021 Newcastle Short Story Award
Open for entries
$7500 in prizes
Closes 8pm (AEDT), Wednesday 14th April, 2021
Scroll down to view your judges and the prize pool
Read the Terms & Conditions and FAQs
Competition judge, Amanda O’Callaghan
Amanda’s short fiction has been published and won awards in Australia, the United Kingdom and Ireland. Her work has been awarded and shortlisted in the Bridport Prize, Carmel Bird Award, E J Brady Award, Bristol Prize, Bath Flash Fiction Award, Fish Short Story Prize, Aeon Award, Flash 500 Award, and others. She is a recipient of a Queensland Writers Fellowship. She holds a PhD in English from the University of Queensland. Her short story collection, This Taste for Silence (UQP, 2019), was shortlisted for the Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction (2019). She lives in Brisbane.
www.amandaocallaghan.com
Competition judge, Jay Carmichael
$3000
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$1500
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$1000
donated by
Kotara*
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$500
Highly Commended Award
$250 prize pack: latest Kindle, microphone and headphones
$250 wine voucher
A 6 pack of Varietal Pepper Tree Wines plus a voucher (valued at $120) to The Vault for a ‘Best of Four Worlds’ Tasting for 4 people.
A case of wine
$100 Cellar Door Voucher