Published 14 July 201511 August 2015 · Prizes / Announcement VU Short Story Prize now open! Editorial team The Overland Victoria University Short Story Prize for New and Emerging Writers is now open. Entry is $12 for subscribers and $20 for non-subscribers. This annual competition encourages excellent and original short fiction by new writers of up to 3000 words in length. At a grand first prize of $6000, it is a coveted annual fiction award for new writers in Australia. There are also two runner-up prizes of $1000. All three winners will be published in Overland’s final print issue of 2015. For the purposes of this competition, ‘new or emerging’ describes a writer who has no more than one book (with commercial distribution) published. This year, the competition will be judged by writer Nam Le, writer and academic Natalie Kon-yu and Overland‘s Jacinda Woodhead. Please read the entry guidelines to confirm eligibility. You may also be interested to read the 2014 winners. Competition closes 11.59 pm, Monday 31 August 2015. Enter the 2015 VU Prize for New and Emerging Writers as a: New subscriber – $56 (Includes $12 entry fee and $44 subscription) Writers can subscribe to Overland for one year (four issues) at a discounted rate, and enter the competition at the special subscriber rate. Take out a new subscription and enter the Overland VU Short Story Prize. Current subscriber – $12 Current Overland subscribers enter the competition at the special subscriber rate of $12. Current subscribers enter the competition here. Non-subscriber – $20 Entry to the competition for non-subscribers is $20. Non-subscribers enter the competition here. Victoria University student – free For students of Victoria University (in Melbourne, Australia), entry to the competition is free. Victoria University students enter the competition here. Editorial team More by Editorial team › Overland is a not-for-profit magazine with a proud history of supporting writers, and publishing ideas and voices often excluded from other places. If you like this piece, or support Overland’s work in general, please subscribe or donate. Related articles & Essays First published in Overland Issue 228 23 January 202325 January 2023 · Announcement An announcement Editorial team In 2023, as we look towards our 250th edition and prepare for Overland’s 70th anniversary, we wish to make a tangible commitment to improve working conditions for our community, and ensure that whatever funding challenges we might face as a left-wing not-for-profit publisher are not passed on to our contributors. As such, we are proud to become the first publishers to sign onto the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance’s Freelance Charter, which affirms the rights and protections of freelance contributors. First published in Overland Issue 228 3 November 20227 November 2022 · News Subscriberthon 2022 Friends and Sponsors Editorial team Thank you to our sponsors for their generous contributions to the 2022 Overland Subscriberthon!