Submit to the Short But Deadly First Nations Flash Prize

Portside Review is seeking flash fiction and flash memoir submissions, open to Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers. This new prize is funded by Spinifex Foundation and Centre for Stories donors.

Portside Review has special connections to Boorloo (Perth), Mumbai, and Singapore, and forms an archipelago from Kinjarling to Karachi to Cape Town. Our journal celebrates stories that spark connection, peace, empathy and intercultural understanding.

The prize is open to entries of flash fiction or flash memoir of 500 words or less. The prize has an open theme and will accept diverse forms and mediums of storytelling (e.g. oral recording, prose, hybrid poetry/prose).

Celebrating writing excellence, a selection of ten shortlisted entries will be published in a special edition of Portside Review in November 2024.

Flash Judges*
Lilly Brown, Magabala Books CEO
Mabel Gibson, Night Parrot Press Board Member
John Morrissey, author

Flash Editors
Casey Mulder
Luisa Mitchell

Shortlisted writers will be paid AUD $250 each.

Applications open 1 August 2024 and close 15 September 2024 at 11:59pm Australian Western Standard Time.

Winners will be notified, published and announced early November 2024.

Please read the guidelines before applying.

Submit your application using the form below.

*Submissions will be judged anonymously.