Dramatic landscapes. Environments under threat. The smells and the sounds of the wild. Whatever the bush means to you, we want to hear it.
Celebrating Western Australia beyond the city limits (or perhaps within!), we invite you to submit your stories of the bush. Each experience of nature is as unique as the person experiencing it, and that is reflected in not just the stories we tell, but the way that we tell them.
We invite you to get creative. You may choose to submit a writing piece, or a series of photographs. Visual art, a video or a sound file. The choice is yours and we look forward to receiving your unique stories of the bush.
How to enter
Email your submission to walbangarra@gmail.com with the subject heading “Stories of the Bush Competition”. In the case of large files, please host them in a service such as Google Drive or Dropbox and provide us with an access link. In the body of the email, state:
– Your full name
– Your address
– A brief description of the work
Rules of entry
- Competition open to all current residents of Western Australia.
- One entry per person.
- Entries must be received by 5pm AWST on 1/9/25. Late entries will not be accepted for any reason.
- Written entries are limited to 2000 words. Photo essay entries are limited to 5 photos. Audio or audiovisual entries are limited to 5 minutes.
Judges
Prizes
Winners will be announced on Saturday, 6th of September, 2025, at the Matriarchs of the Wheatbelt festival event.
Winners will be published in a special issue of Pacific Conservation Biology.
First prize: $100 and a copy of “Between Wodjil and Tor” by Barbara York Main
Second prize: $50
Third prize: $25
Terms and Conditions
- Competition is only open to current residents of Western Australia. Family members of competition organisers are excluded from entry.
- If winners are unable to collect their prizes in person, competition organisers will contact them to organise delivery.
- Entrants must be the copyright holders of entries submitted.
- Copyright of submission remains with the photographer. By entering, the entrant grants the competition and the Matriarchs of the Wheatbelt event the non-exclusive right to reproduce and display the work for the purpose of awarding prizes and promotion of the competition, for the period of a year after submission. Award winners agree to have their submissions published in a special issue of Pacific Conservation Biology.