Entry to the Funniest 500 members-only competition is now open. First Prize: $500 Theme: Hang on Tight! Closing Date: 14 February 2026. Go to www.geelongwriters.org.au/competitions/funniest-500 for guidelines and submission details.
Ekphrastic Challenge #2 2026 is now open. Go to https://www.geelongwriters.org.au/competitions/ekphrastic-challenge/ for details. Submissions close 25 February 2026.
Following last year’s highly successful, inaugural Geelong Short Play Festival, when over 300 people attended the three sessions, the 2026 Festival is open for writers to submit original, fifteen-minute plays, six of which will be anonymously chosen by a panel … Continued
SHUT UP & WRITE Meet up with others, and write. No critiquing, exercises, lectures, ego, competition or feeling guilty. Just write.
With the Geelong Short Play Festival returning in 2026, Geelong Writers is conducting two workshops to assist scriptwriters with their submissions to the competition where six plays will be selected to be performed by local theatre companies at the festival … Continued
SHUT UP & WRITE Meet up with others, and write. No critiquing, exercises, lectures, ego, competition or feeling guilty. Just write.