The Bridport Prize International Writing Competition 2009
for Short Story and Poetry
(We prefer overseas entrants to pay by credit card - there is a facility on the entry form if posting or you can submit directly through our website. If all else fails we will accept Aus $ (at the relevant exchange rate) in cash but notes only - No coins.)

Melbourne Prize for Literature 2009:
The $60,000 Melbourne Prize for Literature is for a Victorian author whose body of work has made an outstanding contribution to Australian literature, as well as to cultural and intellectual life. The $30,000 Best Writing Award is for a piece of work of outstanding clarity, originality and creativity by a Victorian writer, 40 years or under.The work can be any genre or form including fiction, non-fiction, essays, plays, screenplays and poetry

The Wesley Michel Wright Prize in Poetry ( PDF )
The University of Melbourne is pleased to invite entries from Australian Citizens for this prestigious prize for original verse or poetry in the English language. The annual Wesley Michel Wright Prize in Poetry is open for award to an author or composer of original verse or poetry in the English and who is an Australian citizen. Each applicant must submit for assessment an appropriate poetic work.
The prize is awarded by the Council, on the recommendation of a selection committee appointed by the Council on the recommendation of the Faculty of Arts, to the candidate who submits the best work. If in any year the committee considers that no work submitted is of a sufficiently high standard the prize is not to be awarded in that year.