Awesome Authors Writing Competition

Enter your short stories and poems into our Awesome Authors Competition, opening 5 September, and closing on 31 October.

Short Story with the theme of ‘Winter’ or use the word ‘chill’ or ‘cold’ somewhere in your story. Enter up to two short stories. Stories of any length below the maximum are welcome but we have given numbers as a guide. Overall we are looking for quality not quantity.

Up to Grade 3 & 4: From 50 to 1000 words

Grades 5 & 6: From 200 to 1500 words

Grade 7 & 8: From 500 to 2000 words

Poem: no theme or as above (‘Winter’ and ‘chill’/’cold’ if you are looking for inspiration) and up to three entries are allowed per person.

Up to Grade 3 & 4: Poems of up to 30 lines each

Grade 5 & 6: Poems of up to 50 lines each

Years 7 & 8: Poems of up to 70 lines each

Please name your documents with the title of your short story or poem. Do not write ‘By ______’ in your story or poem document, to ensure our judges do not know the name of the entrants. Instead, please fill out the entry form below with your name, details and entry titles and we will check them off when you send your entries to us.

ELIGIBILITY:

Entrants must live or go to school in the Macedon Ranges Shire or surrounds (Sunbury, Trentham, Daylesford, Toolern Vale, Melton, Wallan, Kilmore, Blackwoord, Metcalfe, Taradale). Please email if you would like to check your eligibility.

HOW TO ENTER:

Fill out the details in the entry form below and then send your short story/stories and/or poem/s as (.docx or .pdf) to kbuttigieg@macedonrangeswriters.com

You must do both of these so we can match the stories/poems to the author as your name should not be in the story/poem document, as mentioned above.

Please save the document with the title of your short story or poem, or the first poem if you are sending several. Please send the short stories as separate documents, poems can be sent in the same document. If you have any questions at all, please email us via the above address.