December/January Edition – Writing Competition
Theme – ‘New Beginnings’
There areTHREE prizes of $100 up for grabs, you could have a very Happy Xmas indeed!
We want to hear your ‘New Beginnings’ related Flash Fiction, Short Story and/or Poem – your story or poem can be any genre as long as ‘New Beginnings’ has some relevance.
Submissions are due by midnight, 15 November. Email them to editor@nullfawq.com.au.
All accepted submissions will be published in the Dec/Jan issue of Scope due out on 1 Dec.
Judging is by your peers. Each entry will be published anonymously. Readers of Scope then have until 15 December to vote for their favourite Flash Fiction, Short Story and/or Poem.
The Flash Fiction, Short Story and Poem with the most votes in their category are deemed the winners and will receive $100 each. Winners will receive their prize by bank transfer by Friday, 20 December.
The winning entries will be republished in Scope Feb/March issue 2025, along with name and profile of the writer.
So, get that imagination humming and the fingers clicking.
Conditions of entry:
- Competition is open ONLY to current financial members of FAWQ. Each member may submit only ONE entry in each of the categories of Flash Fiction, Short Story and Poetry.
- Competition is FREE to enter.
- Deadline – submissions must be received by midnight, 15 November. Send entries to editor@nullfawq.com.au in a Word document.
- For the purpose of this competition, Flash Fiction is up to and including 500 words, Short Story is 501 words to a maximum 1500 words. Maximum length of poem is 20 lines.
- All entries must be in a Word document, Times New Roman font, 12pt.
- All submissions must have a title. ‘Untitled’ is not a title. Include your name
- Any work deemed offensive will be disqualified at discretion of editorial team.
- Any work not meeting guidelines will be disqualified.
- You may enter all three categories, and it is possible for one person to win more than one category.
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