Call on storytellers from across Australia to share their stories in The Best Australian Yarn Competition 2023, a celebration of creative writing.
Entries are now open for anyone who has a story to tell to put pen to paper and take part in what is dubbed the world’s richest short story competition for published and unpublished writers.
Emma Garlett, legal academic and columnist is one of the judges of the Best Australian Yarn 2023. She told NITV Radio, entries don’t have to be long – 1000 to 2500 words and the prize pool is now richer than ever.
“The competition is open to everyone, but this year we have the inaugural First Nations storytelling prize. The winner of the First Nations prize is also eligible to win the overall winners’ prize as well which is 50 000 dollars, the largest prize pool of any story award in the country,” Emma Garlett said.
She also confirmed that the Best Australian Yarn competition is open to anyone over the age of 12 including published and unpublished writers as well as students.
