About the Award: The Peter Short Story Competition was launched by PCWC in honor of our namesake Peter Cowan 1914-2002, one of Western Australia's most esteemed writers and academics. It is entirely appropriate that the competition celebrates short story writing since Peter has published several volumes of short stories and is, ~ More details here. WOW Women On Writing Creative Nonfiction Essay Competition. 30. More details here. New short story in words. 30. More details here. IRONCLAD CREATIVE NEWS COMPETITION. ~Dymocks Beyond Words Creative Writing Competition. Published, registrations closed, competitions, young writers. Submit short stories, words. Open to primary and secondary school students across Australia. Free to participate in only one entry per student. High School First Prize, the Society's national writing competition is open to female writers resident in Australia, aged, members and non-members. Type: new fiction, new non-fiction, and poetry. Entrance fee: and -members. Price: Winner 500, Highly Recommended, Recommended 100.