Flash Fiction Competition: Library and Information Week 2019
Monday 18 March • 9:00 am - Monday 6 May • 11:59 pm
Do you love to write?
Write a story of 500 words or under, with an Australian history theme. It can be about whatever you like and using any genre as long as it fits the specified theme. Be creative! The winning entry will be published in our newsletter and on our website.
This year we have 2 categories, Adult (18 and over) and Under 18.
Entries open: Monday 18 March 2019 at 9:00am. Entries close: Monday 6 May 2019 at 11:59pm
Winners announced during Library and Information Week, 20-26 May 2019.
For full details on how to enter including format and eligibility, please read the Terms and Conditions here.
Judges
Australian author Elizabeth Jane Corbett will be judging the Adult competition. When Elizabeth isn’t writing, she works as a librarian, teaches Welsh at the Melbourne Welsh Church, contributes articles and reviews to the Historical Novel Review and blogs at elizabethjanecorbett.com. In 2009, her short-story, Beyond the Blackout Curtain, won the Bristol Short Story Prize. Another, Silent Night, was short listed for the Allan Marshall Short Story Award. Her debut historical novel, The Tides Between, was named a 2018 Children’s Book Council of Australia Notable Book for older readers. Elizabeth lives with her husband, in a renovated timber cottage in Melbourne’s inner-north. She likes red shoes, dark chocolate, commuter cycling, and reading quirky, character driven novels set once-upon-a-time in lands far away.
Rafael S.W writes in all genres and styles including short stories, non-fiction and poetry. A past editor for Voiceworks, Catalyst and Ex Calamus Magazines, he has also been a judge for numerous competitions, presented on panels, and president of the Monash Creative Writers’ Club. He has over fifty published pieces online and off, including in The Big Issue Fiction Edition, The Sleepers Almanac, and Award Winning Australian Writing. He has taught creative writing and chess in schools all around Victoria but is still a far way off from mastering either.
Entry Forms
Entry Form: Adult Category
Please make sure you have checked all of the Terms and Conditions before you submit. Please ensure your name is not included anywhere in your story’s PDF document.
Entry Form: Under 18 Category
Please make sure you have checked all of the Terms and Conditions before you submit. Please ensure your name is not included anywhere in your story’s PDF document.
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