Competitions

Healthy Soil Competition 2023

Soil Week Australia is running its very successful Healthy Soil Competition again in 2023.

The world under our feet is invisible, yet it is a world teeming with billions of microorganisms working together to keep our plants and animals, landscapes, and water supplies clean and healthy. Worms are wonderful and play a key role in healthy soils and a healthy environment. They also are part of the carbon cycle that can draw down carbon from the atmosphere and store the carbon in the soil. Tell us a great story about how wonderful worms are and win some great prizes.

There are two categories for students:

• Primary School students – The topic is “Wonderful Worms”.
• Secondary School students – The topic is “Earthworms – What is the connection between worms, soil and climate?”

Students and schools can submit an individual student entry, a group entry, or a class entry.

Entries are due by 15 September.

Find out more and enter here.

Robogals Science Challenge

The Robogals Science Challenge is a global online STEM competition for girls and gender diverse students aged 5-15. It aims to promote innovation and exploration through hands-on projects, which can be completed with a friend, parent, or mentor.

The competition format has two main Challenges. Participants are required to complete 2 Minor Challenges before being eligible for the Major Challenge.

Participants are entered into one of three age divisions:

• Junior: 5 – 8 years
• Intermediate: 9 – 12 years
• Senior: 13 – 15 years

The Major Challenge is open until 4 October.

Find out more and register here.

Australian Photography Photographer of the Year 2023

Over the past decade, Photographer of the Year has become an important launchpad for many amateur photographers in Australia and New Zealand. For 2023, entrants will compete for a prize pool valued at more than $20,000 AUD.

Photographer of the Year includes six portfolio categories – Landscape, Animal & Nature, People, Aerial, Travel and Black & White – and three single-image categories – Single Shot, Creative and Junior (for entrants under 18).

For the Portfolio categories, you need to enter four images. For the Single Image categories, enter one image.

To enter the competition you must be an amateur photographer (as defined in the terms and conditions), and a citizen or resident of Australia or New Zealand.

Entries close 11.59pm (AEDT), Sunday 15 October 2023.

Find out more and apply here.

2023 Head On Student Awards

Calling all Australian K-12 student photographers! Join Australia’s leading international photo event and enter your work to the 2023 Head On Student Awards for your chance to be included in a world-class photography festival and win from a suite of prizes.

Don’t miss this unmatched opportunity to put your art out into the world, entry is only $1! We can’t wait to see this year’s diverse perspectives and the creative methods of framing the subjects that matter most.

The overall winner will receive AUD$500 cash. The winner and runners-up receive: 12 month subscription to Adobe Creative Cloud (valued at $960) a $300 book pack from Photobook Australia and annual subscriptions to Australian Geographic, Better Photography, and PhotoReview magazines.

Entries close Sunday 27 August 11:59pm AEST.

For more details and to enter, go here.

The Letter Review Prizes

Letter Review is an online Literary Journal dedicated to publishing new work, and assisting writers with help to get published, performed, and produced. They feature interviews with professional writers, publish helpful information, run competitions with cash prizes, and remain open to unsolicited submissions of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry.

They are currently running writing competitions in four areas:

• Poetry
• Short Fiction
• Non-fiction
• Manuscripts

Letter Review is offering up to $1,000 USD total prize pool in each competition. No subject or style restrictions. Open to writers who live anywhere in the world.

Entries close 1 September.

Find out more and enter here.