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KSP Short Fiction Awards
Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers' Centre
11 Old York Road
Greenmount  WA  6056

 

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Deadline:  Last Friday in September
(2011 Deadline: September 30)

 

Conducted

Yearly – since 1987.  Entries received from August 1.

 

Entries invited from

All residents of Australia.

 

Sections

Open, and Shire of Mundaring National Young Writers Awards.
Young Writers = 2 sections: 20 years and under, and 13 years and under.

 

Entry form

Available from February - send SSAE or email, or download from website.  Limit of ONE story per entrant.. Individual stories cannot be entered in more than one section.

 

Entry fee

Open:  $7.00 per story.  Payable to:  KSP  Foundation Inc.
Shire of Mundaring National Young Writers Awards:  no entry fee required.

 

Entry presentation:
requirements and instructions

Manuscript:  typed or computer printed, wide left hand margin, double-spaced, on  one side only of white A4 paper with pages numbered, titled, and stapled in top left corner.
No writer's name to appear on manuscript.
Handwritten, faxed, computer disk, or email entries will not be accepted.
Cover sheet:  to state name of competition, Section entered, title of story, word count, and age of entrant if Young Writer.
Entry form:  Official form must be completed and accompany entry.
Entries are to be forwarded in an A4 size envelope.  Include a similar-sized SSAE if manuscript return is desired.

 

Entries must be

Original, unpublished, not previously broadcast, not a previous award winner in another competition, and not under consideration elsewhere from the time of entry in these awards until the official announcement of winners.

 

Word count

1000 to 3000 words – both Sections.

 

Range of interest

Free choice of style and subject.

 

Common flaws encountered

Lack of final editing, polishing.  Full conditions of entry not followed, i.e. no entry fee included with Open entries, text single-spaced, stories under or above stated word count range, no word count noted for stories, writer’s name on manuscript and/or cover sheet – writer’s name must only appear on the Entry form, no Section entered noted – e.g. Open, no age given by Young Writer entrants.

 

Judging finalised

End of November.

 

Winners notified

By telephone or mail.  Awards announced and presented at the Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers’ Centre in the afternoon of the Sunday closest to Katharine’s birthday, December 4, when those able to attend will be invited to read extracts from their Award winning stories.

 

Full list of winners

Automatically supplied if business-size SSAE is included with entry.  Second SSAE unnecessary if large SSAE already provided for return of manuscript/s.

 

Judge's report

Supplied to winners and all entrants who include an SSAE with entry.

 

Prizes

Open Awards: First - $600;  Second - $300; Third - $175;
and 5 Commended Awards of $10 each.
Shire of Mundaring National Young Writers Awards:  20 and under:
First - $75;  Second - $25; and 5 Commended Awards of $10 each.
13 and under: First - $25.

 

Rights

Remain with writer, but Competition organisers reserve the non-exclusive right to publish winning entries once only in an antholology but only if given the permission of the author at the time the anthology is proposed and provided that any such anthology is published within one year of the author's permission being given.

 

 

The Katharine Susannah Prichard Foundation also conducts the Karen W Treanor Poetry Awards - closing date: last Friday in September, and the KSP Speculative Fiction Awards - closing date: last Friday in May. Contact centre for details.
Website:  http://kspf.iinet.net.au