Submissions & Entries

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 2025. Workshops will be held fortnightly on Thursday nights from 7pm at Coledale, starting in February.

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 2025.

Ekphrasis is a literary description of a visual work of art and for our project, we are inviting anyone 18 years and over to submit poems responding to artworks in the upcoming Tideland exhibition, to be held at SECCA from 14 February 2025.

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.

This week-long retreat, 28 April - 4 May 2025, 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.

Emerging writers in this program will be connected with one of three writing mentors, Emma Darragh, Judi Morison or Hayley Scrivenor, for 10 hours of mentorship from the end of November 2024 to the end of January 2025.

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’.

From 8 July - 9 August the SCWC will invite members to submit poetry for an anthology of poetry on the theme of ‘signs’. Selected poems will appear in the next 34-37 Degrees South anthology.

2024 brings the return of the OLGA MASTERS SHORT STORY AWARD. Short stories (2000 to 4000 words) on the theme of life in rural Australia. The Award is administered by South East Arts, in partnership with Island Magazine, and welcomes entries from writers of all ages resident in Australia.

South Coast Writers Centre, in association with the Berry Writers Festival, are looking for local authors who would like to participate in a local authors event at the festival. Authors must be locals residing on the South Coast and must be debut writers.

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.

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.