2. National Committee, National Short Story Competition – August 2009

First National Republican Short Story Competition
Begun, 1 May 2009 and closes on 31 August 2009.
Details are at http://republicanfiction.blogspot.com, including, Entry Form, Terms & Conditions, and Judging Panel.

 Entry fee $11.99 (Cheques or postal order payable to Australian Republican Movement).

 2009 is a milestone as it will be 10 years on 6 November 2009 since the republican referendum was lost. To commemorate this event and to remind Australians what they still don’t have, the Australian Republican Movement is calling for speculative fiction short stories between 2000 and 4000 words.
These stories should portray an Australian republican future in a positive light, and demonstrate the absurdity of a hereditary monarch as the Australian Head of State in twenty-first century Australian society. Stories must be original and unpublished.

 1st prize: $611.99 Send entries to:
Australian Republican Movement
 PO Box 87 Geebung QLD 4034

 The judges are Queensland author Nick Earls, Brian Matthews (Professor of English, Flinders University),
and John Warhurst (Professor of Political Science, Australian National University).