IT'S ON AGAIN!
Australian Outback Writers Festival
24-27 June 2025
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE
SHORT STORY COMPETITION 2024
WINNERS
Open Category:
Winner: Franz Huber - Fancy a Change With Clancy
Runner-up: Greg McFarland - The Saga of the Stolen Tucker Box
Secondary School Student Category:
Winner: Charlie Farry - Treehouse
Runner-up: Olivia Lee - The Great Escape
Primary School Student Category:
Winner: Isabella McDonald - Dirt
Runner-up: Peyton Weston - The Lost Outback Kitten
A big thank you to all the presenters, attendees and short story writers who made the 2024 Festival so successful.
Congratulations to the winners of 2024 Short Story Competition and the authors who were selected for publishing in
The Outback, Anthology of Short Stories, Vol 9,
which is available for purchase from here.
.
The Festival will be held at the iconic Waltzing Matilda Centre.
Outback Writers Festival Inc is a non-profit incorporated association founded in 2015. The objectives of the Festival are:
- To hold the festival annually in Winton.
- To engage writers and readers who will continue to enjoy and advocate for more Australian stories.
- To encourage the children of isolated and rural families and indigenous children to engage in more reading and writing of stories that they can associate with.
- To promote the Outback as an important tourism destination for Australian and overseas visitors.
- To tell the stories of the Outback as an iconic Australian cultural art form.
- To tell the history of the Australian Outback, the indigenous people and their culture and the generations of settlers that opened this frontier as well as those who live in it today.
The Festival supports the charity founded in the Outback for the people of the Outback - the Royal Flying Doctor Service.