The Greek-Australian Cultural League is announcing this year’s Literary Competition. This Competition is now an established annual event in the cultural and literary scene of the Greek community in Australia.

The Literary Competition includes works written in the Greek or English language, by writers residing in Australia and over 18 years of age, in the following categories: Poetry and Short story.

With the participation of all of us, the Literary Competition will be upgraded through reaching the widest pool of writers in Australia and, it will give to all our members and friends the opportunity to present their unpublished works to a wider audience. Please submit your works by Friday 28th June 2024.

The winning entries in each category in each language will be published in Issue No. 70, 2024 of the annual bilingual periodicals of the GACL, ANTIPODES. The results of the Literary Competition will be announced at a special function to be determined later in the year.

Looking forward to your positive response, please see the Rules of the Literary Competition below and click the button below to participate. Please ensure to attach your works to the Application Form.

2024 LITERARY COMPETITION RULES

• The Literary Competition covers work written in either Greek or English or bilingual in the following categories: poetry and short stories, by writers who are residents in Australia and over the age of 18.
• Participants are required to complete a registration form on the Greek-Australian Cultural League website (www.gacl.org.au)
• The adjudication will be separate for each language.
• Participants may submit work in one or all the categories and in one or both languages, with only one piece in each category they choose.
• Submissions with many grammatical and syntactical mistakes will be rejected.
• Works that do not comply with the limits of content, as prescribed below, will be automatically rejected and will not be forwarded to the Judging Panel.
• Content limits: Poem: 100 verses (lines); Short story: 2000 words.
• All submissions should be the original work(s) of the authors and should not have been submitted in another competition or have been previously published.
• Each work submitted should be signed by a pseudonym (nom de plume) and the same pseudonym should be used in signing all the entries submitted by the same person.
• Each competition entry should be sent only electronically (Word document attachment) to the competition email address: gaclitcomp@gmail.com. Additionally, in a separate text sent to the same email address, participants are required to forward their particulars, including the pseudonym, the full name, address, email and telephone numbers and also, the number of verses in their poems and number of words in their short stories.
• The First Prize in each category and in each language will be awarded a commemorative certificate and a monetary prize. The Second and Third Prizes and any Commendations will have a relevant award certificate and books as a gift.
• In all categories and languages, the works awarded First Prize will be published in the 70th issue of the periodical Antipodes.