Joe O'Sullivan Writers Prize 2011
Deadline 14 April 2011
$1,000,
limit of 1,000 to 4,000 words - prose, fact or fiction.
Topic:
Modern Migration
No Prize was Awarded in 2011
Joyce
Parkes Writers Prize
Deadline 14 April 2011
$200
limit
1,000 words Prose, fact or fiction
Topic:
Women's
Ascendancy
Winner 2011 was Hewella Jenkins
Click here to read the winning entry
Congratulations to the winner and, indeed, to all the entrants for
raising the bar in this year's competition.
The Joyce Parkes Writers Prize is sponsored by the
Australian Irish Heritage Association, which is based in
Joyce Parkes is a well known poet, living in WA. She has published poetry in
the following; Canberra Times, ACT; Lip-Service, WA; Breakaway,
WA; Artlook, WA; POETRY Australia, NSW; Fling!, Vic.; The
Weekend Australian, NSW; Overland, Vic; Sepia, England; Walker
on the Top Rail, WA; Westerly, WA; Patterns, WA; Fremantle
Arts Review, WA; Wordhord, WA; Celebrations, WA; The Road
of Poems and Borders, Finland; (M)other Tongues, Canada; The
Sydney Morning Herald, NSW; The Phoenix Review, ACT; The Midland
Reporter, WA; Social Images, ACT; Stet, SA; Pen
International, England; Kalla Yeedip Arts, WA; The Western Review,
WA; The Western Word, WA; The New England Review, NSW; PEN-Perth,
WA; It's a Woman's World, PEN Germany; Thylazine's Poets for Peace
Project, N.T.; Alison Croggon's Poets Against War; WA; m-a-g/, USA; The
Journal, of the Australian Irish Heritage Association, WA.
First Prize is $200.00. This prize is run annually, and is open to all
female writers in
Further details regarding entry rules and topics may be found at the AIHA
website; www.irishheritage.net
The
Australian Irish Heritage Association would like to congratulate all entrants.