It\u2019s that time of year again to get your pens out or start typing, as the Peter Carey Short Story Award returns for 2020.
\nThe award is for short stories between 2000 – 3000 words and is open to all Australian residents. The winning entry receives $1000, the runner-up $500.
\nFirst and second prized stories will also be published in the Spring 2020 issue of Meanjin. Both stories will receive Meanjin\u2019s standard contributor fee for their work.
\nThis year also sees the return of the Best Local Entry Award, which debuted in 2019.
\nWriters who enter the Peter Carey Short Story Award and live, work or study in Moorabool Shire are eligible for consideration.
\nThe winning story will receive $250 and have an extract of their story published in The Moorabool News.
\nThis year, longlisted entries will be judged by Elizabeth Tan, a writer from Perth and sessional academic at Curtin University.
\nHer work has appeared in journals such as Pencilled In, The Lifted Brow, Overland, Westerly, Catapult, and Mascara Literary Review, and in the anthologies The Best Australian Stories 2016, Stories of Perth, and Best Summer Stories.
\nShe was co-editor of the anthology In This Desert, There Were Seeds, a collaboration between WA’s Margaret River Press and Singapore’s Ethos Books.
\nElizabeth’s first book, Rubik, has been published in Australia, North America, and the UK. Her second book, Smart Ovens For Lonely People, is forthcoming from Brio.
\nPCSSA co-organiser Wayne Marshall said the awards are now heading into their fourth year and is \u201cexpecting competition to be as fierce as ever.\u201d
\n\u201cWe’re also thrilled at having landed Elizabeth Tan as our head judge,\u201d he said.
\nWith the Local Entry Award now in its second year, following inaugural winner and Ballan resident Bob Carey-Grieve\u2019s touching story \u2018Act III\u2019, Mr Marshall encourages Moorabool residents to apply.
\n\u201cWe have such an abundance of writing talent in Moorabool Shire, and we’d love to see more and more stories from local writers,\u201d he said.
\n\u201cWhile the PCSSA is an Australia wide competition, we’re also committed to unearthing and encouraging local writing.\u201d
\nPeter Carey, the namesake of the awards, was born and raised in Bacchus Marsh.
\nHe has won the Miles Franklin three times and the Man Booker twice.
\nOne of his most well-known novels, True History of the Kelly Gang, was recently adapted into a feature film starring Russell Crowe for streaming service Stan.
\nSubmissions open Monday 3 February and close 6pm AEDT on Thursday, 19 March 2020.
\nEntries will be accepted via online application only and will be judged blind, so no names on your work.
\nThe entry fee is $10 per story and you may enter as many times as you like.
\nSimultaneous submissions are acceptable, but let Moorabool Libraries know immediately if your piece has been accepted elsewhere.
\nThe longlist will be posted on the Moorabool Libraries website, while the winner and runner-up will be announced at an awards ceremony held at the Bacchus Marsh Library on Saturday, 13 June 2020.
\nFor more information on the awards and to submit your own work, visit www.moorabool.vic.gov.au\/events\/2020-peter-carey-award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It\u2019s that time of year again to get your pens out or start typing, as the Peter Carey Short Story Award returns for 2020. The award is for short stories between 2000 – 3000 words and is open to all Australian residents. The winning entry receives $1000, the runner-up $500. First and second prized stories […]<\/p>\n