TARWF for Kids | CHILDREN’S MYSTERY SHORT STORY COMPETITION
Each year, TARWF offers a Children's Mystery Short Story Competition for all young writers to age 16.
2022/23 Children's Mystery Short Story Competition Winners Announced
On Thursday 9 March 2023, at Government House in Hobart, Dr L.J.M. Owen, the Director of the Terror Australis Readers and Writers Festival and Convenor of the TARWF Children's Mystery Short Story Competition, announced this year’s winners.
Please follow these links to this and previous years’ children’s programming.
2022/23 | AGATHA CHRISTIE IN TASMANIA
To see details of the TAF2022 Children’s Mystery Short Story Competition, please click here.
To see the winners of the TAF2022 Children’s Mystery Short Story Competition, please click here.
2021 | SCENE OF THE CRIME
To see details of the TAF2021 Children’s Mystery Short Story Competition, please click here.
To see the winners of the TAF2021 Children’s Mystery Short Story Competition, please click here.
2020 | FEMALE DETECTIVES
To see details of the TAF2020 Children’s Mystery Short Story Competition, please click here.
To see the winners of the TAF2020 Children’s Mystery Short Story Competition, please click here.
2019 | FEMALE BUSHRANGERS
To see details of the TAF2019 Children’s Program, please click here.
To see details of the TAF2019 Children’s Mystery Short Story Competition, please click here.
To see the winners of the TAF2019 Children’s Mystery Short Story Competition, please click here.
TAF2019 Kids’ Halloween Party
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Terror Australis Readers and Writers Festival would like to acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land on which our festival is held, the Melukerdee People of the South East Nation, and pay our respects to Elders past and present.