Seniors Festival 2025
Seniors Festival Writing Awards
Port Phillip Writes 2025
The Port Phillip Writes Awards provide an opportunity for older residents, regardless of their writing experience, to enter a competition that stimulates and celebrates local writers.
You can submit one fictional story, poem or a non-fiction piece on any topic. All entries will be published in the Port Phillip Writes publication. Entrants will receive a certificate and two copies of the publication. Outstanding entries are eligible for an award. In October, we’ll let you know how we’ll celebrate the winners.
Entries open 7 April 2025 and must be submitted no later than Friday 27 June 2025
Download the entry from to submit electronically.
Thank you to all the contributors in 2024. Read all the entries and see the winners in each category in the publication.
Save the date: Port Phillip Seniors Festival will be held from Friday 3 October to Friday 17 October 2025
We are thrilled to announce the dates for the City of Port Phillip Seniors Festival 2025!
Keep an eye out on this page for further updates as we get closer to Festival launch on Friday 3 October 2025.
We look forward to working with our partners, contributors, and volunteers who make this event possible.
The Port Phillip Seniors Grants Program will open on Tuesday 29 April and close on Tuesday 10 June.