IT'S ON AGAIN!
18-21 June 2024
Short story competition is open.
Entries to be in with payment by
26 April 2024.
This year's festival will have an outback theme.
Get in early and book your accommodation as Winton fills this time of year.
Congratulations to the winners of 2023 Short Story Competition and the authors who were selected for publishing in The Outback, Anthology of Short Stories, Vol 8, which is available for purchase from here.
Shortly you can pre-order the 2024 version of The Outback, Anthology of Short Stories, Vol 9; we'll post the link ASAP. This volume includes the winning short stories from the 2024 competition, plus many other entries selected for publication.
The Festival will be held at the iconic Waltzing Matilda Centre.
Outback Writers Festival Inc is a non-profit incorporated association founded in 2015. The objectives of the Festival are:
- To hold the festival annually in Winton.
- To engage writers and readers who will continue to enjoy and advocate for more Australian stories.
- To encourage the children of isolated and rural families and indigenous children to engage in more reading and writing of stories that they can associate with.
- To promote the Outback as an important tourism destination for Australian and overseas visitors.
- To tell the stories of the Outback as an iconic Australian cultural art form.
- To tell the history of the Australian Outback, the indigenous people and their culture and the generations of settlers that opened this frontier as well as those who live in it today
Diary Marker:
Dates for the tenth annual Australian Outback Writers Festival -Tuesday 24 to Friday 27 June 2025.
Make a note in your calendar today!
The Festival supports the charity founded in the Outback for the people of the Outback - the Royal Flying Doctor Service.