The closing date for entries for The Dorothea Mackellar Poetry Awards has been extended to 16 July 2010. But even if you aren’t entering the competition, their site has a page of excellent tips for writing poetry. Check it out!
And if you want to enter their competition and you’ll find all the info on their website.
Happy writing!
If you live in the Pilbara region of WA, you might be interested in this Photo and Story Comp. The winner receives a digital camera!
Write a narrative about your local environment and take photos to accompany your text. Entries close 5pm on the last day of Term 3. You can find out more about the competition here.
If you like to write bush poetry, there’s still time to get your entry in for the Bryan Kelleher Literary Award. It’s a bush poetry competition run by Australian Unity in association with the Australian Natives’ Association and Henry Lawson Memorial and Literary Society.
There are three $100 prizes to be won in the Young Achiever category. You can find details and download an entry form from the Australian Unity website. (Terms and conditions are on their left-hand side menu.)
Entries close 30 June 2010.
A. WINTER 2010 WRITING COMPETITION – WIN A $20 BOOK VOUCHER! 
Entries close 12 JULY 2010
Write a short story up to 350 words (shorter is FINE!). Your story must include the word ‘ice’. Include a competition entry form. This may be printed from the website .
Your entry can be handwritten or typed. Make a copy of your entry as we cannot return entries. (Make sure you read the competition rules.)
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B. DESIGN-A-COVER COMPETITION – SEE YOUR ARTWORK ON THE COVER OF THE SUMMER ISSUE!
Using any materials you like, design a cover for Alphabet Soup magazine. Your artwork must be on one side of a sheet of white A4 paper. Make sure the paper is portrait orientation. Do not include the Alphabet Soup logo.
You may enter as many times as you like, but each entry must have a competition entry form with the declaration signed by you and a parent. (Entry forms may be printed from the website or contact us to have one sent to you.)
The winner will receive one copy of the summer 2010 issue (out November 2010), and art supplies worth $20.
The theme for the 2010 cover is: wetlands.
There will be one winner chosen. By entering the competition, you agree to us using your artwork on the cover of the summer 2010 issue of Alphabet Soup magazine. We will publish the winner’s name, age, suburb and state, unless you advise us otherwise.
Just a reminder that if you are in the Perth metropolitan area and planning to enter the 2010 Tim Winton Award for Young Writers, entries close on 30 May.
You can find an entry form and all the details on the City of Subiaco site.
Entries close 30 July 2010, and first prize in each category is $50!
The poems will be judged by Australian writer, Katrina Germein. Visit her website for more information.
Get writing!
While you’re in the mood for poetry (April being [Inter]National Poetry month and all), you might like to think about sending your best poem in to the Dorothea Mackellar Poetry Awards.
The theme is ‘I hear music.’ There are categories for lower primary and upper primary. And prizes from $300, plus a trophy!
You can find out more by visiting the website. Entries close 9 July 2010.
ENTER OUR AUTUMN 2010 WRITING COMPETITION – WIN A $20 BOOK VOUCHER!
Entries close 5 APRIL 2010
Choose a painting by Frederick McCubbin, and write a poem about it. Your poem can be up to 10 lines long. Include a competition entry form. This may be printed from the website, photocopied, or contact us to have one emailed or posted to you.
You can see some samples of McCubbin’s artwork on the Art Gallery of WA website and at the National Gallery of Victoria website.
If you live in Western Australia, the Art Gallery of WA has an exhibition of McCubbin’s work open until 29 March 2010!
(We judge entries in three categories: under 7s, under 9s and 10 – 12s.)
The Norman Lindsay Festival of Children’s Literature will be held 20 – 21 March 2010 at the Norman Lindsay Gallery, Falconbridge, Blue Mountains.
As part of the festival, there is a short story competition for 6 to 12 year olds. You can find more details, and an entry form on their website. (Lots of books to be won!)
Happy writing!
Inside the autumn 2010 issue of Alphabet Soup magazine, you will find:
Issue 6 will be available on Monday 22 February 2010.
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