About the Awards
In addition to giving support and recognition to emerging Victorian writers, The Lord Mayor's Creative Writing Awards promote the City of Melbourne and its libraries as a place of ideas and creativity.
City of Melbourne’s Libraries is proud to present the Lord Mayor’s Creative Writing Awards 2024 and announce the five competition categories:
- Short story (set in Melbourne)
- The Dorothy Porter Award for Emerging Poets
- Narrative non-fiction
- Life Writing for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders
- Feature Category: Stories by Trans and Gender Diverse Writers
Submissions closed at midnight on Monday 3 June.
Feature category
Every Lord Mayor’s Creative Writing Awards has a special category for the award year outside of the four permanent categories.
This featured category exists to invite and welcome underrepresented or marginalised writing communities. While we encourage diverse voices and styles in all categories, by including the feature category each award cycle, we promote wider inclusion and intersectionality.
With this approach the awards can be responsive to new and emerging genres, styles, perspectives and lived experiences. Our aim is to champion these writers, giving them a bigger platform to share their stories, fostering a more vibrant and representative literary landscape.
In 2024, the award’s Feature Category will be: Stories by Trans and Gender Diverse writers.
This year’s wildcard award category is co-presented by Seahorse Victoria and the City of Melbourne.
We are proud to embrace the diversity and richness of voices within the writing community by providing a platform dedicated to honouring the unique experiences, perspectives, and narratives of all writers.
Join us in celebrating the vibrant tapestry of self-expression, as we amplify the voices that deserve to be heard.
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