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    Upcoming Competitions/Events

    • Writing History Festival
      The History Festival at the NSW Writers’ Centre is an opportunity to celebrate writing stories about the past. There are panels on everything: creating drama from real stories, questions of authority in historical fiction, researching stories from real-life politics or crime, finding out about family history, biography and local/community writing.
    • AWGIE Awards
      The AWGIE Awards are for excellence in screen, television, stage and radio writing. Scripts must have been produced in the preceding year. The Awards are unique in being the only writers' awards judged solely by writers. Awards and nominations are based on the written script - the writer's intention - not the finished product.
    • Prime Minister's Literary Awards
      Celebrating the contribution of Australian literature to the country's cultural and intellectual life. Prize is for a work of the highest literary merit in fiction and non-fiction categories, written by living Australian citizens and permanent residents. Entries must have been published in English and offered for sale in the preceeding year. Please refer to competition guidelines on website for further details.
    • Country Energy Leonard Teale Memorial Performance Poetry Award
      Named in honour of an avid Henry Lawson follower and the Society's former patron. Award is for a recorded reading of an Australian poem by a poet of the entrant's choice. Entrants must submit a tape or CD of their performance poem. Up to 10 finalists are chosen and must perform at annual Literary Dinner (Saturday of June long weekend) in Gulgong to be eligible for award.
    • Gulgong Henry Lawson Society of NSW Inc Written Poetry Awards
      Presented in honour of Henry Lawson, who grew up in the Gulgong area. Open Written Poetry, for a ballad with good rhyme and metre, no word or line limit, Australian theme.
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