Competitions

The Queensland Family and Child Commission’s (QFCC) Youth Advisory Council (YAC) has launched an exciting new youth participation opportunity. Young…

Writers of short fiction are invited to enter the Anthology Magazine Short Story Competition. Established to recognise and encourage creative…

The Stockholm Junior Water Prize is the world’s most prestigious youth award given to a high school student for water…

As a part of the 2021 Somerset Storyfest, secondary school-aged students are invited to participate in the Somerset National Poetry…

The Patrick White Indigenous Writers Award has been designed to encourage Indigenous Australian students in Kindy to Year 12 studying…

Rights on Show is Darwin Community Legal Service’s annual human rights art awards and exhibition. It commenced in 1994 and…

The UC Design Competition is back with a new name and an even better selection of prizes. The Faculty of…

Imagine Cup Junior 2021 provides students aged 13 to 18 the opportunity to learn about technology and how it can…

The Rotary Club of Carlingford are very pleased to present the inaugural Carlingford Community Art Show. Artists are invited to…

The Museum of Australian Democracy is accepting submissions of original music videos by students K-12 for their song A Call…

The International Songwriting Competition (ISC) is an annual song contest whose mission is to provide the opportunity for both aspiring…

Australian Photography is searching for Australia and New Zealand’s most amazing amateur photographers. With the best entries showcased and celebrated…

Submit your vision of Australia’s diverse weather to the Australian Weather Calendar photo competition, and your image could feature in…

The Best of Times Short Story Competition is now open for entries. Writers are encouraged to enter humorous short stories…

SCINEMA is your chance to use the power of film to explain a STEM concept you have recently learnt about,…

Play It Forward is inviting you to join a new online singing competition with a difference. It doesn’t matter what…

On the first weekend of every month, you are invited to put your storytelling skills to the test in the…

Australian Book Review welcomes entries for the seventeenth Peter Porter Poetry Prize, which is open to all international poets. Entries…

Year13 and LCI Melbourne are offering budding creatives the chance to win a scholarship and other great prizes. All you…

Do you have a story about growing up in diverse Australia? Tell your story for the chance to win $5000…

Web.Comp is a web competition for school students. Grok Learning will teach you how to build a website as you…

Grab a camera, get outdoors and start photographing WA’s biodiversity – it could be as simple as some spring wildflowers…

The Australian Photography Awards are searching for Australia’s most original and thought provoking photography. In 2020 there are eight categories…

First Pitch calls on budding young entrepreneurs aged 8-13 to enter their best business pitch for the chance to win…

The Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Poets seeks outstanding poetry by writers who have published no more than…

Open to professional and non-professional, old and young, the Awards celebrate the very best in food photography and film from…

The Understory Film Festival encourages local independent, student, emerging and professional filmmakers in the North Queensland region to create short…

The Australian Guild of Music is Running the UNLOCK’D 2020 Composition Competition for Victorian students in Years 7-12. Students are…

Do you want to polish up your short story writing skills and get a free expert appraisal of your work?…

Unearthed is an environmental themed art contest, held by Green Citizens Australia Network (GCAN). Artists from around Australia are invited…

The Schools Reconciliation Challenge is an annual writing and art program for young people across NSW and the ACT. Every…

The 2020 National Poetry Competition is open for entries. Aspiring poets from around the world are invited to enter their…

The search is now on for the next wave of young regional filmmakers. Nextwave is Australia’s largest regional youth short…

In recognition of National Science Week, the ARC Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems (EQUS) is running a quantum-themed…

The Short Screenplay Challenge is a competition that challenges writers around the world to create short screenplays based on genre,…

Little Big Idea is a competition for students in Years 3 to 8 to come up with innovative ideas that…

Life Framer is a photography award that sources and showcases outstanding work from amateur to established artists. Photographers are invited…

AVCAT presents the inaugural AVCAT Essay Prize in 2020, promoting recognition of the impact of the Vietnam War on veterans…

Entries to the Sony World Photography Awards Youth Competition are open. Each month there is a different theme, to which…

Entries are now open to this year’s Cochlear Aurora Photo Contest. The Cochlear Aurora Photo Contest has been running since…

Entries are now invited for the Anthology Magazine Poetry Prize. Established to recognise and encourage excellence in the craft of…

The Storyfest National Novella Writing Competition is open to all Australian high school students. It is a wonderful opportunity for…

Open to people aged 16-22, living in regional or rural Australia. Heywire encourages young people to tell stories about their…

On Thursday 20 & Friday 21 August, classes from Stage 3 and 4 can join our virtual classroom to design,…

To celebrate the relaunch of their new platform, SkyStock.net are having their largest aerial photography competition yet. The total prize…

The Geneva Centre For Security Policy (GCSP) and its Geopolitics and Global Futures Programme are now accepting applications for the…

We’ve seen the wonderful paintings, drawings and artworks, but we know Aboriginal kids and young people have multiple talents! In…

Get your paintbrush, sculpting clay, or camera ready because Palliative Care Australia’s (PCA) annual art competition is back again. PCA’s…

Whether you point, plié, pop, lock, shimmy or shake – share your moves! #balletbeatdrop is all about creativity, impact, execution…

Can you think creatively and spot the maths that is all around you? You might notice maths on your way…

Entries are now open to the 2020 RISE International Photography Awards. The competition is open to all photographers from around…

The Australian Defence Force are looking to encourage the next generation of innovators, critical thinkers and problem solvers – bright…

The Hachette Australia Prize for Young Writers is a developmental award open to Australian secondary school-aged students across the nation.…

The OutStanding LGBTQIA+ short story competition 2020 has officially begun. The annual OutStanding Short Story competition provides a safe and…

If you are a creative young writer in Year 3 – Year 10 in ACT, NSW or WA, then Pens…

A great story can change the way people think about the world around them. Wakakirri is a performing arts festival…

Now in its third year, artists of all 2D media are encouraged to enter the Archipaws Pet Portrait competition. Entries…

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…