It’s that time of the year again with the Pamela Miller Prize, our annual flash fiction competition.
The winner of the Pamela Miller Prize will receive a certificate and $100 first prize, as well as publication in the Ballarat Writers newsletter and website. The winner will be announced at the Ballarat Writers July members’ night.
The Pamela Miller Prize first ran in 2015, in memory of Pamela Miller, who was a very active and productive member of Ballarat Writers. She was a writer of short stories and poetry, and won the short story competition with ‘Murder at MADE’ in 2014. Early in 2015, Pamela wrote a very popular poem called ‘Bronze Heads—The Prime Minister’s Walk’ as part of a Ballarat Writers project during the Begonia Festival.
Entries open: Monday 1 May
Entries close: Wednesday 31 May
Ballarat Writers is accepting fictional prose entries of up to 450 words on the theme Smile. Entry is free.
This is limited to members of Ballarat Writers, so make sure you’ve joined or renewed your membership!
All entries must:
- be original and unpublished
- be written by a current member of Ballarat Writers (judging committee members cannot enter)
- engage with the theme Smile, and be 450 words in length or less (not including the title)
- be sent to competitions@ballaratwriters.com with the subject line ‘2023 Pamela Miller Prize Entry’.
As the competition will be a blind judging, please do not include your name or contact details on the entry.
You can read more about the Pamela Miller prize here.
Good luck and happy writing!
The winner of the October flash fiction contest, keyword monkeys, was Maureen Riches.
