Katharine Susannah Prichard
Speculative Fiction Award

Closing date: Friday May 29, 2009

WORDS: Minimum 1500 Maximum 3500

2 Sections:

• Open Awards
• Mundaring National Young Writers Awards (20 years and under)

PRIZES

• Open Awards: 1st $200, 2nd $50
• Mundaring National Young Writers Awards: 1st $75, 2nd $25
• Under-13's: $25

Awards announced and presented at the KSP Writers’ Centre, 3 pm Sunday, August 16, 2009. No entry form required – both sections are open to all Australian residents.

Conditions of Entry

• Entry fees: Open Awards - $7.50 per story, to be paid by cheque or money order only, payable to: KSP Foundation Inc.
  Shire of Mundaring National Young Writers Awards – no entry fee.
• Work to be original, unpublished, not have received an award in another competition, and not under consideration elsewhere from the time of entry in these awards until the official announcement of winners.
• Limit of three stories per author. Individual stories cannot be entered in more than one section.
• Entries to be typewritten, double-spaced on one side only of A4 white paper, with pages numbered, a wide left-hand margin, and story title on each page. A good photocopy is acceptable. Post in an A4 size envelope.
• To ensure anonymity NO WRITERS’ NAMES TO APPEAR ON MS. Please attach a COVER SHEET with title of story, word count, Section entered, and age if Young Writer
• On a SEPARATE SHEET–note name & year of competition, Section entered – Open or Shire of Mundaring National Young Writer – note age if for Young Writer section, title & word count of story, your name, address, telephone number, and email address if available.
• MSS will only be returned if adequately stamped self-addressed envelope (SSAE) of sufficient size is included, other MSS will be destroyed after the competition, so keep a copy of your work.
• Include a business-sized SSAE if you would like only a results sheet.
• Award winners will be notified by phone or mail prior to announcement at the Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers’ Centre on Sunday afternoon, August 16, 2009, when those winners able to attend will be invited to read excerpts from their stories.
• Members of the KSP Foundation Management Committee are not allowed to enter.
• The judges’ decisions are final, and no correspondence will be entered into.
• The KSP Foundation Inc. reserves the right to publish the winning entry or entries in a publication related to KSP should the opportunity occur, in consultation with the author.

Send entries to:
KSP Speculative Fiction Awards
11 Old York Road
GREENMOUNT WA 6056

Entries which do not reflect the stated conditions,
or are postmarked later than 5pm May 29, 2009
may be disqualified and the fee/s forfeited.

The KSP Foundation is dedicated to providing a Writers’ Centre and related community activities at Katharine’s Place, the former home of Katharine Susannah Prichard (1883-1969) the internationally celebrated author of Coonardoo, Working Bullocks and many other novels, stories and plays.

The KSP Writers Centre sincerely thanks the Shire of Mundaring, The Department of Culture and the Arts, the WA Lotteries Commission, and the Australia Council for their continued assistance and encouragement