Do you have a HERstory?

Submit your poem, memoir, essay or short story for your chance to have your work, judged by published authors and read at the HERstory Arts Festival.

GUIDELINES.

You don’t have to identify as a woman to enter, but you do have to share a HERstory.

Entry fee is $25

PRIZES

1st place $150 | 2nd place $75

WORD LIMITS

Poetry - 1 poem, any length

Short Story, Memoir, Essay - 750 words

DEADLINE.

Entries must be submitted by the 30th of January 2025

TERMS & CONDITIONS

  1. Entries must be unpublished, in English, the original work of the entrant and must not have received an award in any prior competition or be concurrently entered in another competition.

  2. Multiple entries must be on a separate emails.

  3. Entries must be submitted electronically.

  4. The judges decision is final.  No correspondence will be entered into.  The judge reserves the right to withhold a prize.

  5. Winners will be announced on HERstory website https://www.herstoryfestival.com/ by end of February

  6. No artificial intelligence or automated writing tool to be used to compose the entry.

  7. Entry fee of $25 must be paid and reference must match email submission for the submission to be counted.

Submit your entry

Submit your entry

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IMAGE SOURCES

Although we wish we knew the stories of the women above, they remain unrecorded and released to Creative Commons.

Annotations of the images in order from top:

1.Woman feeding sheep at Cinnabar, circa 1925 - Sourced via Wiki Commons, originally sourced from State Library of Queensland.

2. Cropped version of Aboriginal couple wearing kangaroo cloaks. The man is posed with a shield and a spear, while the woman is holding a spear club (ca 1880) - Sourced via Wiki Commons, originally sourced from Melbourne Photographic Company, Adelaide ca 1880. Author cited as George John Freeman (1843-1895)

3. Woman standing on the platform at the Mudgeeraba Station Queensland ca. 1938 - Sourced via Wiki Commons, item is held by John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland.

4. Chinese woman wearing traditional qipao standing in the bushland with two borzoi dogs in the bushland of Bendigo, Victoria Australia 1930 - Sourced via Wiki Commons, uploaded by Chanmeiling214 as Own Work.