Day: December 5, 2025

Competitions and Opportunities
Australian Writers’ Centre Team

Enter the Australian Society of Authors/HQ Fiction Prize

If you’re a writer with a completed but unpublished novel, there’s a fantastic opportunity worth knowing about: the ASA/HQ Commercial Fiction Prize. Run jointly by the Australian Society of Authors (ASA) and the HQ imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, the biennial Prize is designed to unearth the best of fresh, commercially

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