Archive : Competitions

Now entering its eleventh year, Short+Sweet Sydney is the biggest festival of ten minute theatre in the world! This year I didn’t make it into the Sydney Top 100 but got a spot in the Wildcards with my play “Between a Rock and a Hard Place”, which won People’s Choice in Crash Test Drama back...

Best Drama Award! At Brisbane Short and Sweet Festival I’m really rather happy that my short play ‘Sock’ took the ‘Best Drama’ award at this years Brisbane Short and Sweet Festival. After years plugging away at Short and Sweet, I’ve finally bloody won something!! The play was directed by...

This month’s collection of Australian writing competitions. Ciao Magazine Seeks Inner West Writers Ciao, a local paper in the inner west, is looking for local feature writers to write about the Inner West. 900 word articles – must be savvy, inner west centric. Any subject. Once commissioned,...

Pete Malicki is Literary Manager of Short+Sweet’s theatre festivals worldwide and the Festival Director of Short+Sweet Sydney. As a writer, Pete has had plays performed in ten S+S festivals and made it to two Gala Finals, winning Best Drama in Brisbane 2010 for The Devil’s Aftershave. This...

I was just sent a press release from Woollahra Municipal Council about the upcoming Woollahra Local Writer’s Word Festival, so thought I’d share it with you all.   The Woollahra Local Writer’s Word Festival is opening its first chapter for 2011, by calling for entries from authors...

Ten Minutes | Ten Plays | $1,800 up for grabs Eltham Little Theatre Inc. is happy to announce the return of their highly successful  short play competition ‘The Ten Minute Quickie’. Successful selected plays will be performed at The Eltham Performing Arts Centre,  24th —26th May 2012. ELT...

It’s been a while since I posted any competitions, mainly because I’ve been busy entering them (and failing miserably to get anywhere!). Anyhow, here are some new competitions that might take your fancy. Do let me know if you have any success, so I can get all bitter and jealous on you.   MPU...