Peter Cowan Writers’ Centre Inc
PO Box 239
JOONDALUP WA 6919
Phone: (08) 9301 2282
e-mail: cowan05@bigpond.com
website: www.pcwc.org.au
Supporting writers of all ages and abilities
Peter Cowan 600 Short Story Competition
Entries Close: 18 May 2012
The Peter Cowan 600 Short Story Competition
was launched by our centre in 2010 in honour of our
namesake Peter Cowan (1914–2002), one of Western
Australia’s most esteemed writers and academics. It is
fitting that the competition celebrates short story writing
as Peter Cowan published several volumes of short fiction
and is well known for writing in this genre. Peter was the
recipient of several major writing awards, and was made
a Member of the Order of Australia in 1987. He was
named a Western Australian State Living Treasure in 1999.
The competition has become an annual event and last year attracted over 380
entries from across Australia. Last year’s entries covered a variety of subjects
and themes, and were applauded by judge, Shane McCauley as:
“… a tremendous outburst of narrative creativity”
Writers are now invited to submit entries for this year’s
Peter Cowan 600 Short Story Competition
Entries must be unpublished works, and not have won prior recognition*
PROSE: Maximum 600 words per story
THEME: Open
AGE: Open
PRIZES: 1st
$200; 2nd
$100; 3rd
$50; with
four x Highly Commended and
four x Commended Certificates.
ENTRY FEE: $10.00 for one entry,
or $20.00 for three entries,
or $30 for five entries.
CLOSING DATE: 18TH May 2012
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