ZineWest Short Story Competition

or Zine West Short Story Competition

Subcategory of Awards — Australian Awards

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History

Prizes offered by the NEW Writers Group, who subsequently publish winning works (and others) in their annual Zine West issue.

The group focuses on writing from Western Sydney.

Notes

The ZineWest Short Story Competition award is offered annually to new and emerging writers, sixteen years and over, 'who live, work or study in Greater Western Sydney or attend a Western Sydney writers' group'. The award prizes are sponsored by The Writing and Society Research Group, University of Western Sydney.

Source: Competition guidelines information, accessible via ZineWest's blog, http://zinewest.blogspot.com/
Sighted: 13/01/2010

Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 2015

winner Elegy Meg Brayshaw , 2015 single work short story
— Appears in: Zine West , no. 15 2015; (p. 37-39) Award Winning Australian Writing 2016 2016; (p. 102-104)

Year: 2013

winner A Shore Distant "Late-afternoon sun. Tree shadows crisscross like coconut thatch.", Yasmin Tambiah , 2013 single work poetry
— Appears in: Zine West , no. 13 2013; (p. 61) Award Winning Australian Writing 2014 2014; (p. 52-53)

Year: 2012

winner (Editor's Choice Award) Separacja Arna Radovich , 2012 single work short story
— Appears in: Zine West , no. 12 2012; (p. 48-50)

Year: 2010

winner My Time Luke Carman , 2011 single work short story
— Appears in: Award Winning Australian Writing 2011 2011;

Year: 2008

winner Dev Felicity Castagna , 2009 single work short story
— Appears in: Award Winning Australian Writing 2009 2009; (p. 86-88)

VIEW ALL LISTED RECIPIENTS (7)

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