The Tasmanian Writers' Prize 2025

The prize is for short stories up to 3,000 words having an island, or island-resonant, theme.

The winning entry receives a cash prize of $500 and all finalists' stories will appear in the Forty South Short Story Anthology 2025.

Entries close February 14, 2025

How to Enter:

1. Read the Terms and Conditions

2. Buy your entry via the online bookshop

3. Submit your entry via the electronic form

Judges

Liz Evans

Originally from the UK, Liz Evans is a journalist, author, former psychotherapist, and sessional academic currently based in lutruwita/Tasmania. She holds an MA in Jungian and post-Jungian Studies from the University of Essex and a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Tasmania where she has taught English and Writing units as an Associate Lecturer, and is now an Adjunct Researcher. In 1994 and 1997, she published two books on women and rock culture for Pandora/HarperCollins. Liz is now a freelance literary critic for The Conversation, and a regular contributor to Bookish on ABC Hobart. Her debut novel, Catherine Wheel (Ultimo Press, 2024) is a literary psychological thriller that has been described as ‘feminist noir’. She is currently working on her second novel for Ultimo. 

Cameron Hindrum

Dr Cameron Hindrum has published a novel, three collections of poetry and had two plays professionally produced in Tasmania. In 2021 he was awarded a Doctorate of Creative Arts (Writing) from the University of Wollongong, with the novel written as part of that degree -- 'The Sand' -- winning the University of Tasmania Prize for Best Unpublished Manuscript at the 2022 Tasmanian Premier's Literary Awards. He is the author of The Blue Cathedral (Forty South, 2023). For 17 years he coordinated the annual Tasmanian Poetry Festival, of which he is now the Patron.

Rayne Allinson

Rayne Allinson has a PhD in History from the University of Oxford. She is the author of A Monarchy of Letters: Royal Correspondence and English Diplomacy in the Age of Elizabeth I (Palgrave MacMillan, 2012). She is Assistant Publisher at Forty South Publishing and a Bookseller at Fullers Bookshop.