Fictional Flashbacks! Love to Read Local Week Competition
ENTRIES TO THIS COMPETITION HAVE NOW CLOSED. YOU CAN READ THE LONGLISTED ENTRIES HERE.
As a part of Love to Read Local Week 2024, Writing WA, in partnership with Raine Square, are seeking flash fiction pieces of 100-words or fewer, inspired by a memorable object in your life.
Longlisted entries will be published on this website. Shortlisted entries will also be published on the Raine Square Short Edition Story Dispenser and on Writing WA’s Literary Map.
Prizes:
– First, second, and third place will each be awarded a cash prize to the value of $500, $300, and $200 respectively.
– We have added a new category of People’s Choice Award, in which the you, the public, will get to vote for your favourite piece out of the 10 shortlisted entries. The winner will be awarded a cash prize of $200. Voters will go in the draw to win a $50 book voucher.
– All winners will be interviewed on Podstreet, the Writing WA podcast.
Key Dates:
Submissions are open until Monday 22 April 2024 (5.00 pm AWST).
The longlist will be announced on Friday 10 May 2024.
The shortlist will be announced on Friday 17 May 2024.
Voting for the People’s Choice Award opens on Friday 17 May. Voting closes 21 May 2024.
The winner, runners-up and People’s Choice Award will be announced on Friday 31 May to kick off the weekend of Love to Read Local Week 2024.
Judges:
The competition will be judged by Writing WA. It will be a blind judging process.
Conditions:
o Entry is free and open to anyone over the age of 18 living in Western Australia.
o Limited to one entry per person.
o Entries should be 100 words or fewer (the title is not included in the word count).
o Entries must state the location in WA that the object is from and/or the location that the author is writing from if the object is not from WA (for us to put on the Literary Map).
o Entries must be original and previously unpublished works.
o The judges’ decision will be final and no correspondence will be entered into.
o By entering the competition, shortlisted entrants grant the organisers a non-exclusive license to use, reproduce, and display their work, including but not necessarily limited to: Love to Read Local website; Short Story Dispenser in Raine Square, Perth CBD; Love to Read Local Literary Map; social media.
o Entries containing hate speech, violence, or illegal material will be disqualified.
o AI-generated writing is strictly prohibited.
o Entrants retain full copyright of their submitted work.