Authors

• Jen McVeity - www.highlightingwriting.com
• Susanne Gervay - www.sgervay.com
• Hazel Edwards - www.hazeledwards.com
• Sally Murphy - www.sallymurphy.net
• Goldie Alexander - www.goldiealexander.com
• Duncan Ball - www.harpercollins.com.au/selby
• Di Bates and Bill Condon - www.enterprisingwords.com
• Chris Cheng - www.chrischeng.com
• Deborah Abela - www.maxremy.com.au
• Vashti Farrer - www.vashtifarrer.com
• Scot Gardner - www.scotgardner.com
• Libby Gleeson - www.libbygleeson.com.au
• Morris Gleitzman - www.morrisgleitzman.com
• Gus Gordon - www.laterallearning.com/authors/gordon.html
• Andy Griffiths - www.andygriffiths.com.au
• Christine Harris - www.christineharris.com.au
• David Harris - www.davidharris.com.au
• Libby Hathorn - www.libbyhathorn.com
• John Heffernan - www.pudplus.com
• Steven Herrick - www.acay.com.au/~sherrick
• Nette Hilton - www.nettehilton.com
• Leigh Hobbs - www.leighhobbs.com
• Elizabeth Honey - www.allenandunwin.com/honey/honey.asp
• Paul Jennings - www.pauljennings.com.au
• David Legge - www.laterallearning.com/authors/legge.html
• John Marsden - www.panmacmillan.com.au
• Stephen Measday - www.laterallearning.com/authors/measday.html
• Louise Pfanner - www.laterallearning.com.au/authors/pfanner.html
• Felicity Pullman - www.geocities.com/felicitypulman
• Emma Quay - www.emmaquay.com
• James Roy - www.jamesroy.com.au
• Moya Simons - www.moyasimons.com
• Sue Whiting - www.suewhiting.com

Children's Book Awards

CBC Book of the Year Awards for Australia
www.cbc.org.au/awards.htm

YARA Book of the Year Awards
www.yara-online.org

Bilby Awards (Books I Love Best Yearly Awards) for Queensland
www.pa.ash.org/cbc/bilbyawards

KOALA (Kids Own Literature Award) for NSW
www.koalabooks.com.au/koalanswawards.html

YABBA (Young Australians' Best Book Award for Victoria)
http://home.vicnet.net.au/~yabba

The KANGA Awards (for South Australia)
www.thekangas.org.au

Cyber Awards (Children's Yearly Best Ever Reads) for Tasmania
http://members.iinet.net.au/~abresneh

WAYBRA Award (West Australia Young Readers Book Award) for Western Australia
http://waybra.iinet.net.au

KROC Award (Kids Reading Oz Choice) for Northern Territory
http://eddept.wa.edu.au/cmis/eval/fiction/awards/aw1.htm#kroc

COOL Awards (Canberra's Own Outstanding List) for the Australian Capital Territory
http://www.library.act.gov.au/actpl/cap1/coolawardspage.html

Randolph Stow Young Writers Awards
http://www.geraldton.wa.gov.au/library/writers.htm

The Katharine Susannah Prichard Short Fiction Awards
Shire of Mundaring National Young Writers Awards (20 years and under)
http://kspf.iinet.net.au/2005shortfiction.html

The Katharine Susannah Prichard Science Fiction/Fantasy Awards
Shire of Mundaring National Young Writers Awards (20 years and under)
http://kspf.iinet.net.au/2005scifi.html

Write in Your Face 2006
An initiative of the Literature Board supporting emerging forms of writing practice by young writers.
http://www.ozco.gov.au/grants/other_support_literature/write_in_your_face_2006/
Contact Jill Jones:
Tel: 02 9215 9058
Toll-free: 1800 226 912 (outside Sydney)
Email: j.jones@ozco.gov.au

Send your application to:
Operations Section
Australia Council for the Arts
PO Box 788
Strawberry Hills NSW 2012

ABC Radio Regional Production Fund Short Story Project
http://www.abc.net.au/shortstories/

Billabong Valley - Children's Short Stories
http://billabongvalley.com/index.html

YOUNG REVIEWER OF THE YEAR COMPETITION.
The competition is based on children reviewing selected titles from the Children's Book Council of Australia: Book of the Year Awards 2005 Shortlist and is open to all Western Australian students in primary and secondary schools, home schooling or distance education.
http://www.cbc.org.au/wa/reviewer.htm

DMAG and Dymocks National Writing Competition
http://www.dmag.com.au/competitions.asp

Multicultural Book Competition
ESL Resource Centre
Department of Education and Training
Jacaranda Ave
Mt Claremont 6010
Eligible students will be primary and secondary aged students from all educational sectors/systems and Ethnic Schools who are:

1. From culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds learning English as a second language (ESL).
2. Llearning a language other than English (LOTE).

http://www.eddept.wa.edu.au/esl/esl6.htm

Canberra Young Writers' Award 2006
The ACT Writers Centre acknowledges the assistance of the Australia Council, and the ACT Government through arts ACT.
The Centre is located in the Doonkuna Wing, Gorman House Arts Centre, Ainslie Avenue, Braddon, ACT 2612.
http://www.actwriters.org.au/about.htm

The Somerset Novella National Writing Competition is open to ALL current secondary school students attending school in Australia. Entrants must be under 19 years of age at close of entries
http://www.somerset.qld.edu.au/cofl/novella.htm

Australian Children's Music Foundation
National Songwriting Competition
http://www.acmf.com.au/competition.asp

West Australian Young Writers Competition

• The Mary Durack Award
• The Tim Winton Award for Young Writers
• The Randolph Stow Young Writers Award
• The Christobel Mattingley Award
• Make Your Own Story Book Competition

http://www.liswa.wa.gov.au/youngwritcomp.html

The Australian/Vogel Literary Award
http://www.allen-unwin.com.au/vogel/entry.asp

NESCAFÉ BIG BREAK Competition
Each year NESCAFÉ BIG BREAK gives away cash grants to people aged between 16 and 24, who have a dream or idea and need some financial support to make it a reality.
http://www.nescafebigbreak.com.au/default.asp

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