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Read Matilda Bolt’s short story ‘The Hawk’ awarded The 2018 John Marsden & Hachette Australia Prize for Fiction.

Read Octavia Chandler’s nonfiction piece ‘In My Mind’, awarded The 2018 John Marsden & Hachette Australia Prize for Nonfiction.

Niamh Brazil’s winning poem ‘Camelot’, awarded The 2018 John Marsden & Hachette Australia Prize for Poetry.

Meet the five shortlisted fiction writers from The 2017 John Marsden & Hachette Australia Prize for Young Writers.

Meet the five shortlisted fiction writers from The 2017 John Marsden & Hachette Australia Prize for Young Writers.

Meet the five young poets shortlisted for The 2017 John Marsden & Hachette Australia Prize for Young Writers.

We’re stoked to be kicking off Toolkits: Poetry with 8 talented young poets from across Australia, participating in Toolkits: Poetry. In just the third year of the Toolkits program, we received many applications, making the selection process a difficult one. For 12 weeks, these young poets will explore the histories, language and the changing face […]

We’re delighted to announce that Briohny Doyle and Tresa LeClerc will lead The 2018 Scribe Nonfiction Prize Masterclass. Now in its sixth year, The 2018 Scribe Nonfiction Prize for Young Writers is a unique development award to foster talented writers aged 30 and under writing longform nonfiction. Entries are currently open, and submissions between 5,000 and […]

Voiceworks is a national literary journal, featuring new fiction, nonfiction, poetry, visual art and comics by Australians under the age of 25. Voiceworks is produced entirely by people yet to hit the quarter-century mark and relies on contributions from readers to make up its content. Each selected piece goes through a collaborative editing process, and individualised feedback is […]

We’re delighted to announce that Myfanwy Jones and David Golding will lead The 2018 Scribe Nonfiction Prize Live Q&A Now in its sixth year, The 2018 Scribe Nonfiction Prize is a unique development award to foster talented writers aged 30 and under writing longform work. Entries are currently open, and submissions between 5,000 and 10,000 words are welcome across […]