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I was alerted

by the Sydney Writer’s Centre via their excellent twitter account that there has been quite a large fiction competition for Australian writers announced at the University of Sydney that you can read about here:

David Harold Tribe Fiction Award

The University of Sydney is hosting the David Harold Tribe Fiction Award, made possible by a generous gift by its namesake, David Harold Tribe. The objective of this award is to promote interest in Australian fiction and to encourage the writing of fiction in Australia. The award provides writers with funds that might enable them to further their education in the field of creative writing, to continue to refine their work as writers, and to improve the general public’s appreciation of Australian fiction.

How to win: The award will be made for the best original piece of short fiction (between a minimum of 3,000 words and a maximum of 3,500 words) submitted to the Department of English, provided that the judging panel is of the opinion that the work is of sufficient merit to warrant the award being made.

Prizes:

• The award will be in the sum of $11,000.
• The winning entry will be published in Southerly, Australia’s oldest Literary Magazine.

Deadline:

4pm Friday 7th August, 2009 (Australian Eastern StandardTime)

Well, what are you waiting for? Get scribbling.

In more personal news I’ve surpassed all previous efforts at NaPoWriMo by completing my sixteenth poem early this morning. So pretty much everything from here is a bonus. I have a good feeling that with the pressure off I’ll be able to really let loose on the remaining fifteen. I also learned that at the forum I’m participating at, there have been a total of 945 poems produced in these first sixteen days. How insane is that? Being part of a productivity binge has never been so satisfying. Anyway, wish me luck, and if you missed the earlier link, they’re all located in this thread, with links in the first post for convenience.

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