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<\/p>\nFirst prize $250AU Hawkeye Publishing Gift Voucher + anthology cover based on the winner\u2019s story. (Sponsorship Opportunities Available \u2013\u00a0Contact Carolyn<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n Closes 6PM Monday 1st August 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n Maximum 1,000 words\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Theme: Detour\/s<\/strong><\/p>\n $15AU entry<\/strong><\/p>\n We\u2019re looking for stories with powerful beginnings, rising tension, and a climax that resonates, to the theme of DETOUR. Short stories about alternative routes, roads less travelled, unexpected journeys, that examine lessoned learned, cautionary tales, surprising endings, friends made along the way. Play with unconventional storytelling, or tell a story that plays with \u2018epic journey\u2019 tropes. What obstacles can keep your characters from reaching their goals? Have they reached their ending yet? Has something lead to a possibility they would have never otherwise imagined?<\/p>\n Sometimes the way forward isn\u2019t simple, and often it\u2019s these detours through life that make for compelling, hopeful, significant, surprising, or comical stories \u2013 stories that linger on characterisation, resilience, unorthodox experiences, and new ways of looking at the world. That stick with us after the last sentence is done.<\/p>\n Judges are looking for the following:<\/p>\n Read this feature<\/a>\u00a0from the 2020 competition for notes from the judges on what made the published 40 stand out from the field.<\/p>\n Want an insight into the types of stories that win first prize and get published in our anthology?<\/strong><\/p>\n Then grab a copy of the 2021 Anthology,\u00a0Jump\u00a0<\/em>and find out. Details\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Prize Pool :<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nShort-Listed and Long-Listed announced.
\n<\/strong>TOP 40 published in an anthology \u2013 free copy to all published entrants.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n
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