Your words, your story. Celebrating Brimbank’s writers.
Do you live, work, study, or play in Brimbank? Or are you a listener of Vision Australia Radio? We would love to read and celebrate your work!
Brimbank is home to a vibrant community of writers and storytellers. In partnership with Vision Australia Radio, Brimbank Libraries is excited to showcase the best microfiction stories from writers across Melbourne’s Western suburbs.
We’d love to see your creativity shine! Submit a microfiction story (up to 200 words) inspired by the phrase ‘No-one chooses for us’, for a chance to win amazing prizes!
Prizes
Award categories:
- Youth (ages 10-18)
- Adult (ages 19+)
Three prizes will be awarded in each category, with all prizes consisting of book selections from The Sun Bookshop in Yarraville:
1st place: $250 worth of books
2nd place: $150 worth of books
3rd place: $100 worth of books
Who can enter?
- Writers living, working, or studying in Brimbank
- Listeners of Vision Australia Radio
- Vision-impaired writers can submit an audio recording of their story
Judging:
Award-winning author T.R. Napper, known for his work in Australian Science Fiction, will be judging the entries.
Key Dates:
- Competition opens: 1st January 2025
- Entries close: Midnight, 2nd February 2025
- Winners announced: 21st March 2025 (Winners and notable entries will be read aloud on Vision Australia Radio)
Good luck, and we can’t wait to read and hear your stories!
Competition Entry Details
To enter the competition, email your story to library@brimbank.vic.gov.au with the subject line: BWRF Microfiction competition submission YOUTH/ADULT (choose the age group that applies to you).
The theme for the competition is ‘No-one chooses for us’. You can interpret this in any way you like, and it’s up to you how much or how little it influences your story.
Your story must be submitted as an attached Microsoft Word document, with the text in size 12, Times New Roman (or a similar font). *
At the top of your story, include the following details:
- Your name
- Age
- Phone number
- Email address
- Title of your story
- Word count
These details don’t count towards your word limit. Please see example word document.
* If you’re vision impaired, you can submit an audio recording of your story in MP3, MP4a, or WAV format.
In your email, include your name, age, phone number, story title, and word count. Make sure to also include this information verbally at the start of your recording.
- Entries must be a maximum of 200 words long (not including title and author details).
- Entries longer than 200 words will not be considered.
- All genres of fiction are welcome.
- One entry per person.
- Entries are open to anyone who lives, works, studies or plays in Brimbank, and to listeners of Vision Australia Radio.
- Entries created (partially or fully) by generative AI will not be accepted.
- There are two award categories: Youth (10-18) and Adult (19+ years old)
- Three prizes will be awarded per category. Prizes will be book selections from the Sun Bookshop, of $250/150/$100 for first, second and third placegetters respectively.
- Judges’ decisions on the selected winners are final.
- Entries received after the closure date of midnight on the 02/02/25 will not be considered.
- Entered stories may be broadcast on Vision Victoria’s radio show.
- Winning entries may be published on the Brimbank Libraries Website, and other Brimbank Council websites, and Vision Victoria’s website.
- Entries are via email only. No physical paper entries will be accepted.
- Vision impaired writers are welcome to submit their story as an audio recording, within the 200 word limit.
T. R. Napper is a multi-award-winning science fiction author. His honours include the prestigious Aurealis three times (Best Horror Short Story 2016, Best Science Fiction Novella 2020, Best Science Fiction Novel 2022). His short fiction has appeared in Asimov’s, Interzone, the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and numerous others, and been translated into six different languages. He received a creative writing doctorate for his thesis: The Dark Century, 1946 – 2046. Noir, Cyberpunk, and Asian Modernity.
http://nappertime.com/
