Mslexia.co.uk runs a number of writing competitions from novel, short, story, poetry and memoir. Check website for current competitions. Prize money awarded.

Knightville Poetry Contest: Three poems per entry. Up to 150 lines per poem. Machigonne Fiction Contest: Submit up to 5000 words of prose, anything from flash to long stories. Novel excerpts are welcome, as long as the manuscript functions as a stand-alone story. Previously unpublished work only. International submissions welcome.

New Voices Festival in July showcases first time published writers and poets in conversation with well established writers. The sessions focus on the art and craft of writing and getting published. The forums aim to provide public speaking experience for the writers and inspiration for aspiring wordsmiths.

A tabloid-style, union publication representing education professionals, school support staff and early childhood professionals teaching and working in independent education and Catholic or religious institutions/schools/centres throughout Australia. Topics of interest: education. Each issue has a theme with other regular sections.

Next Wave Festival is dedicated to nurturing our culture and contemporary ideas into the twenty-first century, supporting the work of a new generation of Australian artists and encouraging young people to engage with the Arts. Events presented across performance, visual arts, text and sound.

New Zealand current affairs magazine, featuring award-winning journalism on a wide variety of subjects.

The competition is open to anyone aged 16 or over. Poems should be in English, unpublished, not accepted or submitted for publication elsewhere, and must be the entrant’s original work.

Since 1998 the NT Writers’ Centre has presented the NT Writers’ Festival annually, alternating between Darwin (Wordstorm) and Alice Springs. With a thousand miles between locations, the festival shifts from the tropics to the desert, from wet to dry, from coastal to inland, from Larrakia to Arrernte country, creating a kind of contrasting tone or character between festivals which reflects something of the diversity – environmental, cultural and social – of the Northern Territory itself. The Festival is unique in Australia for profiling Indigenous Austral…

Omega Writers exists to educate, support and inspire Australasian Christian writers towards excellence, impacting society with grace and truth. We want our words to change the world.

Overland, the most radical of Australia’s long-standing literary/cultural magazines, publishes features, fiction, poetry, reviews, comment, artwork and opinion pieces. Overland is committed to engaging with important literary, cultural and political issues in contemporary Australia. It has a tradition of publishing dissenting articles with a political and cultural focus. It also runs the Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Poets with the support of the Malcolm Robertson Foundation.

Formerly Sisters in Crime, NSW, this organisation also facilitates the Queen of Crime Awards. Meets six times per year at The Friend in Hand Hotel in Glebe. Membership includes subscription to newsletter.

Enter a single poem of no more than 100 lines. Guarantees winners wide exposure through publication in ABR. The guidelines, closing date and entry form are available on the ABR website.

Plumwood Mountain is a new online journal of ecopoetry and ecopoetics published in Australia. We publish poetry that may broadly be understood as engaging with a more-than-human context, in a variety of poetic forms, articles on the poetics and intent of ecopoetry, exploring ways in which poetry not only responds to and affects its world, but also ways  in which poetic practice can model ecological systems and concerns, the ways in which poems themselves are material, breathy things in a world of animate matter, and reviews of collections of poetry that…