CALLING all aspiring writers! This is your chance to gain recognition for your work as well as win $5000 in the Lord Mayor’s Creative Writing Awards 2011. Jowee Tee reports.
CALLING all aspiring writers! This is your chance to gain recognition for your work as well as win $5000 in the Lord Mayor’s Creative Writing Awards 2011.
Celebrating Melbourne’s status as a UNESCO City of Literature, the award seeks to support all emerging writers, and promote Melbourne as a place of ideas and creativity.
Entry submissions are now open to all, young and old, living in the state of Victoria.
These are the five categories:
- Short story
- The Dorothy Porter Award for Poetry
- Novella
- Graphic short story
- eBook (short story or novella)
The main award, worth $5000, will be chosen from a shortlist made up of the five category winners, while individual category winners will be awarded $1000.
Submissions close on August 31, 2011.
Winners will be announced in November 2011.
For more information or to enter, visit the Lord Mayor’s Creative Writing Awards website.