Competitions

Little Stories Big Ideas Flash Fiction Competition for Secondary School Students

Little Stories Big Ideas is a writing competition for Australian Secondary School Students. As part of the comp, students write a story in 100 words or less to a specific themed prompt, in any literary style they like – prose, poetry, haiku or song. There are two entry categories, Year 7 to 9 (Junior) and Year 10 to 12 (Senior).

The comp runs every school term with great prizes on offer and is free to enter.

Cash prizes of $100 plus Gift Vouchers and Memberships are up for grabs.

Entries are now open for our Term 4 competition with the theme “Fear”. Entries close Friday December 23 2022 at Midnight.

Find out more: https://littlestoriesbigideas.com.au/

National Photographic Portrait Prize 2023

The call for entries for the National Photographic Portrait Prize 2023 is open! One of our most popular annual events promotes the best in contemporary photographic portraiture by both professional and aspiring Australian photographers.

The winner will nab a $30,000 cash prize from us AND photographic equipment – courtesy of our imaging partner, Canon. There are a raft of other prizes too, including Highly Commended supported by EIZO and an Art Handlers’ Award thanks to IAS Fine Art Logistics.

Entries close at 9:00am (AEDT) on Tuesday 31 January 2023.

Find out more and enter here: https://www.portrait.gov.au/nppp-callforentries.php