The Stringybark Open Award 2025

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FUTURE COMPETITIONS

The Stringybark Short Story Awards exist to promote and develop short story writing in Australia. We are still planning our future 2025/26 competitions. Keep an eye on this page as it will be finalised soon! In the mean time, why not check out some award winning short stories?