In March – April each year, PCWC conduct the annual Peter Cowan 600 Short Story Competition for unpublished stories up to 600 words maximum. Competition details will be added to the Competitions drop-down menu once the competition has opened for entries.
The competition has an open theme and entrants may submit poetry up to a maximum of 50 lines. Entries must also be unpublished and not have received any previous awards or recognition in any other competition.
The competition also caters for youth with the ‘Judge’s Encouragement Award for Youth’ for young poets aged from 12-17 years to encourage and support the upcoming poets of the future.
The ‘Open’ category carries a $200 First Prize, with $100 for Second and $50 for Third Prize. The Novice Poet Award $50
The ‘Judge’s Encouragement Award for Youth’ also has a prize of $50.
There are also four, Highly Commended and four Commended Certificates to be awarded in the competition.
Entry fees $10 each $20 for three entries $30 for five entries and for youth entries (12-17 years) $5.00 per entry.
Instructions for interactive PDF
Download PDF registration form onto your desktop.
Working within your desktop environment, open and fill in all applicable information.
Save As: Put in your name and GPPP then click save.
Attach this document to your email.
Postal entries to P.O. Box 239 Joondalup WA 6919
Online entries to cowan05@bigpond.com
Call (08) 9301 2282, e:cowan05@bigpond.com http://www.pcwc.org.au
The 2017 Trudy Graham-Julie Lewis Literary Award for Prose (Fiction or Non-Fiction) is now open.
The competition has an open theme and entrants may submit prose up to a maximum of 2000 words. Entries must also be unpublished and not have received any previous awards or recognition in any other competition.
The competition also caters for youth with the ‘Judge’s Encouragement Award for Youth’ for young writers aged from 12-17 years to encourage and support the upcoming writers of the future.
The ‘Open’ category carries a $200 First Prize, with $100 for Second and $50 for Third Prize.
The ‘Judge’s Encouragement Award for Youth’ also has a prize of $50.
There are also four, Highly Commended and four Commended Certificates to be awarded in the competition.
Entry fees $15 each $25 for two entries $35 for three entries.
Instructions for interactive PDF
Download PDF registration form onto your desktop.
Working within your desktop environment, open and fill in all applicable information.
Save As: Put in your name and TGJL then click save.
Attach this document to your email.
Poets of all ages and experience are encouraged to enter the 2017 Patron’s Prize for Poets Competition.
This national poetry competition has an open theme and entrants, who must be Australian residents, may submit poems up to a maximum of 50 lines. Entries must be unpublished and not have received any previous awards or recognition in any other competition.
In addition to the Open category for writers of all ages and experience, the Centre has established a category for Novice Poets which aims to encourage beginning and fledgling poets who may feel they have no chance against established poets in the Open category.
The competition also caters for youth with the ‘Judge’s Encouragement Award for Youth’ for young writers aged from 12-18 years to encourage and support the upcoming poets of the future.
The ‘Open’ category carries a $200 First Prize, with $100 for Second Prize and $50 for Third Prize.
The ‘Novice Poet Award’ is $50.
The ‘Judge’s Encouragement Award for Youth’ of $50.
Four Highly Commended and Commended Certificates will also be awarded in the competition.
This competition is now closed. Thankyou to everyone who submitted an entry this year.
Instructions for interactive PDF
Download PDF registration form onto your desktop.
Working within your desktop environment, open and fill in all applicable information.
Save As: Put in your surname and PPPC then click save.
Attach this document to your email.
The competition has an open theme and entrants may submit stories up to a maximum of 600 words. Entries must also be unpublished and not have received any previous awards or recognition in any other competition within or outside Australia.
In addition to the ‘Open’ category open to all writers, the Centre established a new category in 2015 entitled the ‘Novice Writer Award’. To be eligible for this category the writer must have never won a prose competition. This category was very successful last year and continues in 2017.
The ‘Novice Writer Award’ is to encourage beginning and fledgling writers to enter who may feel they have no chance against established writers entering the ‘Open’ category.
The competition also caters for youth with the ‘Judges Encouragement Award for Youth’ for young writers aged from 12-18 years to encourage and support the upcoming writers of the future.
The ‘Open’ category carries a $200 First Prize, with $100 for Second and $50 for Third Prize.
The ‘Novice Award’ is $50.
The ‘Judges Encouragement Award for Youth’ prize is $50
There are also four, Highly Commended and four Commended Certificates to be awarded in the competition.
This competition is now closed. Thankyou to everyone who submitted an entry this year.
Flyer
Rules of Entry & Registration
Instructions for interactive PDF
Download PDF registration form onto your desktop.
Working within your desktop environment, open and fill in all applicable information.
Save As: Put in your name and PC600SS then click save.
Attach this document to your email.
The competition has an open theme and entrants may submit poetry up to a maximum of 50 lines. Entries must also be unpublished and not have received any previous awards or recognition in any other competition.
The competition also caters for youth with the ‘Judge’s Encouragement Award for Youth’ for young poets aged from 12-18 years to encourage and support the upcoming poets of the future.
The ‘Open’ category carries a $200 First Prize, with $100 for Second and $50 for Third Prize. The Novice Poet Award $50
The ‘Judge’s Encouragement Award for Youth’ also has a prize of $50.
There are also four, Highly Commended and four Commended Certificates to be awarded in the competition.
Entry fees $10 each $20 for three entries $30 for five entries and for youth entries (12-18 years) $5.00 per entry
For additional information please click the Flyer
Postal entries to P.O. Box 239 Joondalup WA 6919
Online entries to cowan05@bigpond.com
Call (08) 9301 2282, e:cowan05@bigpond.com http://www.pcwc.org.au
The 2016 Trudy Graham-Julie Lewis Literary Award for Prose (Fiction or Non-Fiction) will be commencing on 24th June 2016.
The competition has an open theme and entrants may submit prose up to a maximum of 2000 words. Entries must also be unpublished and not have received any previous awards or recognition in any other competition.
The competition also caters for youth with the ‘Judge’s Encouragement Award for Youth’ for young writers aged from 12-18 years to encourage and support the upcoming writers of the future.
The ‘Open’ category carries a $200 First Prize, with $100 for Second and $50 for Third Prize.
The ‘Judge’s Encouragement Award for Youth’ also has a prize of $50.
There are also four, Highly Commended and four Commended Certificates to be awarded in the competition.
Entry fees $15 each $25 for two entries $35 for three entries.
THIS COMPETITION HAS NOW CLOSED
Poets of all ages and experience are encouraged to enter the 2016 Patron’s Prize for Poetry Competition.
This national poetry competition has an open theme and entrants, who must be Australian residents, may submit poems up to a maximum of 50 lines. Entries must also be unpublished and not have received any previous awards or recognition in any other competition.
In addition to the Open category for writers of all ages and experience, the Centre has established a category for Novice Poets which aims to encourage beginning and fledgling poets who may feel they have no chance against established poets in the Open category.
The competition also caters for youth with the ‘Judge’s Encouragement Award for Youth’ for young writers aged from 12-18 years to encourage and support the upcoming poets of the future.
The ‘Open’ category carries a $200 First Prize, with $100 for Second Prize and $50 for Third Prize.
The ‘Novice Poet Award’ is $50.
The ‘Judge’s Encouragement Award for Youth’ of $50.
Four Highly Commended and Commended Certificates will also be awarded in the competition.
Thank you entering the competition. Registrations have now closed.
The Awards Celebration for the Patron’s Prize for Poets Competition will take place on Saturday, 16 July 2016. Please refer to the Event Flyer for more information.
2016 Peter Cowan 600 word Short Story Award
The competition has an open theme and entrants may submit stories up to a maximum of 600 words. Entries must also be unpublished and not have received any previous awards or recognition in any other competition.
In addition to the ‘Open’ category open to all writers, the Centre established a new category in 2015 entitled the ‘Novice Writer Award’. To be eligible for this category the writer must have never won a prose competition. This category was very successful last year and continues in 2016.
The ‘Novice Writer Award’ is to encourage beginning and fledgling writers to enter who may feel they have no chance against established writers entering the ‘Open’ category.
The competition also caters for youth with the ‘Julian Cowan Youth Award’ for young writers aged from 12-18 years to encourage and support the upcoming writers of the future.
The ‘Open’ category carries a $200 First Prize, with $100 for Second and $50 for Third Prize.
The ‘Novice Award’ is $50.
The ‘Julian Cowan Youth Award’ prize is $100 which has been donated by Mrs. Diana Cowan.
There are also four, Highly Commended and four Commended Certificates to be awarded in the competition.
This competition is now closed. Thank you everyone that entered.
Flyer
Registration Form
2016 Glen Phillips’ Poetry Prize will be commencing on 26th August 2016
The competition has an open theme and entrants may submit poetry up to a maximum of 50 lines. Entries must also be unpublished and not have received any previous awards or recognition in any other competition.
The competition also caters for youth with the ‘Judge’s Encouragement Award for Youth’ for young poets aged from 12-18 years to encourage and support the upcoming poets of the future.
The ‘Open’ category carries a $400 First Prize, with $200 for Second and $100 for Third Prize.
The ‘Judge’s Encouragement Award for Youth’ also has a prize of $100.
There are also four, Highly Commended and four Commended Certificates to be awarded in the competition.
Entry fees $10 each $25 for three entries $40 for five entries
Closing date will be 21st October 2016.
Postal entries to P.O. Box 239 Joondalup WA 6919
Online entries to cowan05@bigpond.com
Call (08) 9301 2282, e:cowan05@bigpond.com http://www.pcwc.org.au