Writing opps & comps for August 2024

roundup of upcoming writing opportunities and competitions

Hello dear Musers

Welcome to my round up of writing opportunities and comps.

Are you ready! There is so much on offer for writing submissions for August. There’s prizes, competitions, travel funds and more.

I hope there is something for you or something you can pass onto another budding writer.

Here’s my roundup of upcoming* writing opportunities and competitions in August:

• 7/8/2024 Venie Holmgren Environmental Poetry Prize

• 9/8/2024 Wakefield press monthly comp up to 1500 words with the theme of ‘plenty of books’ email maddy@wakefieldpress.com.au

• 12/8/2024 Peter Blazey Fellowship to further a work in progress for those writers in the non-fiction fields of biography, autobiography and life writing

• 12/8/2024 Best Australian Yarn

• 13/8/2024 Island Magazine

• 14/8/2024 Queensland Memory Awards

• 14/8/2024 QLD Writers Centre Scriptable program

• 15/8/2024 Moments from We Are Explorers - adventure storytelling

• 16/8/2024 Island Magazine Poetry Online

• 17/8/2024 Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund

• 17/8/2024