Competitions

We all have to make decisions about how we spend our money—and what we buy—almost every day of our lives.…

Are you a budding artist in years 7-12? Enter the STAEDTLER Secondary School Art Competition. All you need to do…

Young, rural & driven? Country to Canberra’s Leadership Competition is bigger than ever before! Female students from across Australia in…

Young and upcoming local Indigenous artists are invited to enter the third annual NQPHN Indigenous Youth Art Competition. The winning…

The world today is facing complex and interconnected challenges that block the path toward peace. To raise awareness of the…

The Moth Art Prize is awarded annually by The Moth magazine to a body of figurative or representational artwork. It…

The Real Film Festival (RFF) is on the lookout for fearless filmmakers prepared to tell their untold stories. The RFF’s…

Students and teachers are invited to submit poems to this year’s Spring Poetry Festival. Spring Poetry Festival is open to…

The annual AlburyCity Short Story Award is open to entrants throughout Australia. Stories can be up to 3000 words and…

The Young Tasmanian Writers’ Prize is a short fiction competition open to all Tasmanians enrolled in Years 7-12. There are…

Entries to the Mental Health Foundation Australia’s Youth Creative Writing Competition are open. You are invited to submit a story,…

Do you ever look around you and think, ‘this could be better’? Maybe something at home, in your local community…

Ahoy ocean lovers! Do you have a big idea to help protect the Great Barrier Reef? Are you a salty…

Get involved in the Digital Technology Hub’s Arcade Game competition. Students are invited to create an arcade game, film the…

This competition is designed for Queensland high school students to create, communicate and design an entry that will change your…

The annual Premier’s Anzac Prize provides a life-changing opportunity for 8 high school students to experience the Anzac tradition first-hand…

The series of STEM Challenges is an opportunity for high school and college students from across Australia to participate in…

Entries to the the 2020 Venie Holmgren Environmental Poetry Prize are open. You can enter a poem of up to…

For the first time in 2020, the Olga Masters Short Story Award has a youth prize. Writers under 18 are…

Video Matsuri is an annual short film contest for students. There are no restrictions on style or theme, as long…

The 2020 ACMF National Songwriting Competition is now open. Every year, students from schools across Australia are invited to put…

The Lester Prize Youth Award encourages the creative talents of young and aspiring artists. It is open to all High…

Entries are open to the Boroondara Literary Awards. There are two categories to enter: the Young Writers’ Competition, open to…

Hawkeye Publishing are now looking for entries to the 2020 Sydney Hammond Short Story Writing Competition. This year, the theme…

Calling on schools nationwide to participate in a new national portrait prize! The inaugural Little Darlings Youth Portrait Prize (LDYPP)…

The OzKids Art Competition is open to primary and high school students from across Australia. You can enter a piece…

SAE FlickerUp 2021 competition, in partnership with SAE Creative Media Institute, is an Australian Youth & Schools Competition which screens…

Entries are now open to the 2020 KSP Short Fiction Competition. Writers from around Australia are encouraged to enter their…

Ipswich Poetry Feast is an annual poetry writing competition giving poets of all ages the opportunity to compete for over…

This year Planet Ark’s Make It Wood campaign is once again running a photo competition, which will have two categories:…

Entries are now open to the 2020 Plan Your Own Enterprise (PYOE) Competition. In up to 3,000 words students should…

Front Page is an initiative of Nine and Australian Teachers of Media (ATOM). It provides Australian schools and classes with…

The Aesthetica Creative Writing Award is an international literary prize that is a hotbed for new talent in Poetry and…

Looking to sharpen your creative writing skills? You can participate in Reedsy’s Weekly Writing Contest. Each week they will send…

The Australian Informatics Olympiad (AIO) is an open national computer programming competition held annually. Students write short computer programs to…

The Australian Space Design Competition (ASDC) is designed for secondary school students with a passion for space, or are considering…

If you are aged 15 to 18 years, you are invited to write, record and submit a micro-literature piece to…

The 2020 Travel Photographer of the Year awards (TPOTY) are now open. At a time when travel is so restricted,…

Entries are now open for the 2020 New England Thunderbolt Prize for Crime Writing. All genres of crime writing are…

Entries to the 2021 Premier’s Anzac Student Tour competition are now open. Ten student ambassadors from grades 8-11 will represent…

STUFFit is a film festival competition open to high school students across Australia. Students can submit a film in any…

Red Room Poetry Object is Australasia’s largest free poetry-writing competition for young people and their teachers. Poetry Object ignites imaginations…

Stringybark Publishing is proud to sponsor the Tales with a Twist Award 2020. Clean the spilt coffee out of your…

The Big Science Competition is open to students in years 7-10 of all abilities from Australian and international schools, including…

Students in years 7-10 from across Australia are invited to enter the UNSW Bragg Student Prize for Science Writing. 2020…

We are living in times of uncertainty and isolation right now, but while we have extra time on our hands…

The 2020 Randolph Stow Young Writers Awards (RSYWA) for Young Adults and Children is now open. Do you have a…

Entries to the Rose Frankcombe Short Story Award 2020 are now open. Writers from around Australia are encouraged to enter…

Do you have a creative idea to help stop cyberbullying? Why not submit your creation to share the message that…

Young writers aged 8-18 are invited to submit entries to Iron Bridge Publishing’s Hopepunk Youth Writing Challenge. Hopepunk is a…

The NCCA invites teenagers from around the Northern Territory to submit photographic portraits of themselves or their friends, for inclusion…

Are you a high school designer who is comfortable with drawing, painting or using digital mediums to convey your concept?…

The Young Writers Award is an annual short story competition for Queensland residents aged 18 to 25 for stories up to 2,500…

Entries for the Great Barrier Reef Underwater Film & Photo Competition are now open. Submit your best and most impressive…

Griffith University STEM Mania is a fun, online Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) program for students in years 5-12.…

The Breakthrough Junior Challenge is an annual global competition for students to inspire creative thinking about science. Students ages 13…

The 100-word Microfiction Challenge is a competition that challenges writers around the world to create very short stories (100 words…

Entries are open to the Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest for 2020. Writers are invited to submit…

Have you read one of Ayn Rand’s thought-provoking novels? Now’s the time! Enter an Ayn Rand Institute essay contest for…

The 1-Minute Film Competition is an initiative of Australian Teachers of Media (ATOM). It provides Australian and New Zealand primary…

Victorian students in years 5-10 are invited to create stories based on historical events and people. Students can write about…

The Mercy Foundation Youth Awards is a photo competition open to high school students across Australia from years 7 to…

The Simpson Prize is a national competition for Year 9 and 10 students. The competition encourages participants to focus on…

Entries to the 2020 Maureen Freer (FAWQ) Literary Competition are now open. Writers can submit either a short story, poem…

Entries to the 2020 Hilarie Lindsay Poetry Competition are now open. Students in years K-12 from around Australia are invited…

JMC Academy invites high school students to submit their short film for The Mocktail Awards. The nominated films will be…

Young ICT Explorers is a non-profit competition, which has been created by SAP to encourage school students to create their…

Écrire! is an annual short story competition hosted by the Words Alike team for new and aspiring writers. Writers aged 13+…

The Department of Veterans’ Affairs (DVA) is proud to host the Anzac Day School’s Awards. This is a national competition…

Entries for the 2020 Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize are now open. You can submit up to 5 poems of…

SmartFone Flick Fest is Australia’s international smartphone film festival for filmmakers of all ages. They are a world-wide festival open…

Registration for the 2020 Techgirls Competition is now open. The program combines problem-solving through a social, business and technical lens,…

Entries to the Dorothea Mackellar Poetry Awards are now open for 2020. Students in all years from kindergarten to year…

Do you have a passion for film making and the environment? MobileMuster want you to create a one minute film…

If you are a high school student in Years 9 -12, it is time to put your pen to paper…

Legal Oratory ACT are running a Mock Trial competition for students in years 9-12. Following the success of the competition…

The ATOM Photo Comp is an initiative of Australian Teachers of Media (ATOM). It provides Australian and New Zealand student…

The International Astronomy and Astrophysics Competition is an international science competition that enables students from all countries to prove their…

Entry is open to the 2020 Schools Poetry & Short Story Writing Competition. Students all over Australia are invited to…

The Young Ada Short Story Prize is open to 14-18-year-olds who live, study or work in Melbourne’s western suburbs. Young…

Fancy yourself the next Stephen King? KSP Writers’ Centre are looking for submissions for their 2020 Spooky Story Competition. There…

The ABC’s Fierce Girls podcast wants you to tell them about a fierce girl you admire! They’re looking for stories…

Year 12 students have an opportunity to win a 4-week study program in Kagoshima, Japan. Located in the southern tip…

Clip Studio Paint are hosting a manga, comic and illustration contest open to students worldwide. Winners are eligible for cash…

Designed to assess mathematical insight and ingenuity rather than efficiency in tackling routine examples. Students are encouraged to enter the…

In 2020, Belconnen Arts Centre is celebrating the people who excite, inspire, challenge and provoke us to take action. Artists…

What Matters? is a ‘catalyst for young thinkers and young writers to develop a perspective, a point of view, on…

The Queen’s Commonwealth Essay Competition is an opportunity for all young Commonwealth citizens and residents, regardless of region, education or…

The Student Blogging Challenge is about embracing all of the benefits of publishing online — from learning digital writing skills,…

The Australian STEM Video Game Challenge is open to upper primary and secondary school students. Students are encouraged to design,…

Teams of Year 11 and 12 students will work together to solve a contemporary health issue facing Australia. Teams will…

Do you or someone you know enjoy art? Would you like to win $500 while giving back to our community?…

Tell us your story through poetry or song and gain the honour of being awarded a state title and share…

Wool4School is an annual student design competition encouraging budding fashion designers to show the nation what they’re made of. Open…

The Helen Handbury Leadership Award recognises Year 12 students in rural and regional Australia who have shown strong community leadership…

The National History Challenge is a research-based competition for students. It gives students a chance to be an historian, researching…

Eurekly is designed to help students excel in this world, and we want to hear what student life is really…

Strike A Chord is a new competition designed to encourage the next generation of Australian musicians to experience the life-changing…

For over two decades, Melbourne International Comedy Festival’s Class Clowns has helped hundreds of funny, young peeps hone their comedy…