2021 Newcastle Short Story Award
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$7500 in prizes
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2021 judges
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
had his first novel, Ironbark, shortlisted for both the Victorian Premier’s Award for Fiction in 2019 and the Victorian Premier’s Award for an Unpublished Manuscript in 2016. His writing has been published by beyondblue and appeared widely in print and online, including in Overland, The Guardian, SBS, and The Telling Tree project.
Prizes
1st Prize
$3000
donated by
School of Humanities and Social Science
2nd Prize
$1500
donated by
3rd Prize
$1000
donated by
Kotara*
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$500
Highly Commended Award
$250 prize pack: latest Kindle, microphone and headphones
$200
Commended Award
$100 Booktopia Voucher
Commended Award
$100 voucher
Commended Award
Local Awards
$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
