Submissions & Entries

River of Art Festival, in association with the SCWC, announce a Flash Fiction Competition. Winners will be announced at the River of Art Festival 2024.

Submissions must be under 500 words, responding to the theme ‘many waters’.

The SCWC Poetry Award runs annually, seeking poems responding to a different Wollongong Art Gallery exhibition theme each year.

The winning entries will be published in the South Coast Writers Centre’s Anthology.

Members of the South Coast Writers Centre are invited to submit poems of up to 30 lines or 300 words to our Digital Poetry Anthology, 34 to 37 Degrees South.

We invite submissions of poetry and short fiction under 1500 words, that include a reference to or respond to some element of the theme ‘in colour’. Writers whose work is selected will be invited to read at the launch event and will receive a copy of the anthology.

The SCWC / Merrigong Playwrights Program aims to create a space where writers are encouraged to develop their writing projects among a safe and supportive group of peers. Capped at 10 participants, this is a 10-month program that will run from February-November 2024.

Graham Thorburn is looking to form a small group of mutually supportive writers with some experience in writing interested in writing a first draft of their own feature length screenplay over the course of 2024. Workshops will be held fortnightly on Thursday nights from 7pm at Coledale, starting on 8 February.

This week-long retreat, 13 to 19 May 2024, at Bundanon Homestead will allow eight emerging or established south coast writers to focus on developing or completing works. In order accept a place on this retreat you must be a SCWC member.

Writers on the South Coast, or connected to Nan Tien Temple, are invited to apply for a 2024 residency at Nan Tien Temple.

Up to 12 residencies for established or emerging writers will be offered over the period of 11 – 24 March 2024.