Australian Writing Opportunities

“Australian Writing Opportunities” crosses all borders. We find publishing opportunities, prose and poetry competitions, books dedicated to writing, writers' festivals, and, particularly intriguing, seven pages of major awards for writers. You will find the international Man Booker Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the Orange Prize for a single novel by a woman, also the Australian Age Book of the Year award which “recognizes the best piece of Australian literature for the year.” American representatives include the Pulitzer Prize for Literature and the famous medals for writing for children, the Caldecott Medal and the Newbery Medal. Online book shops offer award winning books as well as classic books on writing.

Fiction Garden

Fiction Garden shows a wondrous flowering of help for writers! The site offers Teach Yourself writing books, free writing competitions with prizes, open writing groups (U.K.), selections of “independently published books,” and private advertisements for on line buying and selling of books. Classified advertisements run the gamut from recycled ink cartridges to The Encyclopedia of Unsolved Mysteries, by Colin Wilson and Damon Wilson.

Creative Writing Contests

Creative Writing Contests offers an eclectic list of contests, literary magazine theme issues, writing residencies, and more. Prizes are offered for poetry as well as fiction. Many contests listed are free to enter. MFA fellowships are also listed. Creative Writing Contests is a program of WordPress.com, a very successful, enduring blog source.

Just a Contest (JAC)

JAC will send you to literary magazines for award opportunities in poetry as well as fiction. Also find information on Classic mystery writing awards. Some contests may make you blink. Try “The Scent of an Ending Contest.” First prize is $89.93.