Are you a budding Tim Winton or Elaine Forrestal?  Then you may be interested in entering one of the young writer's competitions held by Western Australian public libraries.

• The Mary Durack Award
• The Tim Winton Award for Young Writers
• The Randolph Stow Young Writers Award
• The Christobel Mattingley Award
• Make Your Own Story Book Competition

The Mary Durack Award
Established by the Shires of Mundaring, Kalamunda and the Cities of Armadale and Swan in 1979, with the responsibility of the award rotating to a different council each year.
Entrants must reside or attend a school in the Shires of Swan, Mundaring or  Kalamunda, or Cities of Armadale or Swan to be eligible.
For more information contact:

Swan - Tel: 08 9267 9020; Email: midland-library@swan.wa.gov.au
Mundaring - Tel: 08 9295 1275
Kalamunda - Tel: 08 9257 9969
Armadale - Tel: 08 9399 0125

The Tim Winton Award for Young Writers
The Tim Winton Award was established in 1992 by the City of Subiaco.  Entrants need to reside in metropolitan Perth and be between the age of six and seventeen.
For more information:

Visit the "Tim Winton Award" web site or ring the Evelyn H. Parker Library - Tel: 08 9381 5088

The Randolph Stow Young Writers Award
In 1989 the Geraldton Midwest Regional Group of ALIA and the Geraldton Regional Library inaugurated this award as a project to encourage young writers and to promote awareness and use their public library.
For more information contact:

Geraldton Library Service - Tel: 08 9956 6659

Christobel Mattingly Award
This award is an annual event sponsored by the City of South Perth and hosted by the library service.  Both prose and poetry entries are accepted from any school age person residing or attending school in the City of South Perth.
For more information contact:

Manning Library - Tel: 08 9450 4450

Make Your Own Story Book Competition
This competition is organised by the Children's Book Council of Australia (WA Branch) annually.
For more information contact:

Children's Book Council (WA Branch Inc)
P.O. Box 473
West Perth  WA  6872

For more information on any of the above competitions please e-mail yps@slwa.wa.gov.au

Writing Competions and Grants
Details of writing competitions and grants available throughout Australia provided by Trinity College.