Reading and Writing: Writing and Illustrating Competitions

"The Furious Fiction writing competition is a monthly competition which is presented by the Australian Writers’ Centre, this fun, fast – and best of all – FREE short story challenge blasts off on the first Friday of every month. Anyone in the world aged 17 years and older is able to take part. Not only do you get to try your hand at a new creative challenge each and every month, the winning story takes home $500 in cash."

Each year this competition closes in April and offers a diverse range of categories.

"The Dorothea Mackellar Poetry Awards are a unique national project, giving Australia's youth a voice and an opportunity to strive for excellence in literature ... "

"The Peter Porter Poetry Competition is a yearly competition where entrants compete for a chance to win the major or runner up shortlist prizes. This prize is open to all age groups and entrants are not required to be in Australia, which has meant that a significant number of entrants from overseas are included each year ... "

"Voiceworks is a national literary journal, featuring new fiction, nonfiction, poetry, visual art and comics by Australians under the age of 25. Voiceworks is produced entirely by people yet to hit the quarter-century mark and relies on contributions from readers to make up its content. Each selected piece goes through a collaborative editing process, and individualised feedback is provided for all unsuccessful written submissions. All published contributors are paid for their work ... "

"The Future Leaders Writing Prize is designed to recognise and reward talented young writers. It aims to encourage expressive and creative writing ... "

"All you need to do is upload [your audio story] file. Your submission should be no longer than 2 minutes in duration."

"The Storyfest National Novella Writing Competition is open to all Australian high school students. It is a wonderful opportunity for serious student writers, encouraging them in their literary growth - and there are also some fantastic prizes on offer! ... "

"The purpose of the Somerset National Poetry Prize is to encourage a love of writing poetry amongst secondary school students, to affirm it as a worthwhile literary pursuit, and to stimulate excellence in writing. It also aims to inspire and enrich youth literature ... "

Each year the University of New South Wales invites students to write 800 words on a specified science topic.

"Hooray! It’s the Year of the Ox!"
So for the latest Clever Competition, I want you to write a story about An Oxcellent Ox! (Of course, that means a truly excellent Ox :)) The story must not exceed 1000 words (including the title).