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January 2018
February 2018
| 1 February | Golfwell’s Second Annual Gold Writing Competition |
| 2 February | Text Prize for YA & Children’s Writing |
| 5 February | Newcastle Short Story Award |
| 7 February | Banjo Paterson Australian Poetry Competition |
| 10 February | Charles Perkins Centre Fellowship |
| 13 February | Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook Short Story Competition |
| 14 February | Black Cockatoo Art and Story Competition |
| 15 February | Words & Brushes Short Story Competition |
| 18 February | Regional Storyteller Scholarship |
| 25 February | Atlantis Short Story Contest |
| 28 February | Australian Inaugural So Bad It’s Good Writing Competition
Booksie Young Writer Short Story Contest Everything Change Climate Fiction Contest |
March 2018
April 2018
| 10 April | ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize |
| 15 April | Ploughshares Emerging Writer’s Contest |
| 30 April | Carmel Bird Digital Literary Award |
May 2018
| 1 May | Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition |
| 15 May | Raymond Carver Short Story Contest |
| 31 May | Cinnamon Press Short Story Prize |
June 2018
| 30 June | L. Ron Hubbard’s Writers of the Future Contest |
July 2018
| 9th July | Melbourne Prize for Literature 2018 & Awards |
| 31 July | Cinnamon Press Debut Novel/Novella Prize |
August 2018
| 31 August | FAW Tasmania Poetry Prize |
September 2018
| 30 September | L. Ron Hubbard’s Writers of the Future Contest |
October 2018
| 15 October | FAW Tasmania Christmas Competitions |
November 2018
None at this time
December 2018
| 31 December | L. Ron Hubbard’s Writers of the Future Contest |