Donate to the Queensland Flood Relief Appeal and win great prizes!

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Writers across Australia have united to raise funds for the Queensland Flood Relief Appeal. Enter Writers on Rafts to win some great prizes donated by over 150 authors including Kate Moss, Rebecca Sparrow, Marcus Zusak, Mem Fox, Morris Gleitzman, Kathy Lette, Anita Heiss, Larissa Behrendt, Melina Marchetta, Kate Morton, Nick Earls and Poh Ling Yeow.
There are four categories of prizes:

• Author visit: have a local, participating author drop into your book club, school or writers group.
• Writer support: have your own work professionally developed.
• Character name: have a character named after you in a participating author's new work.
• Book Pack: receive a selection of signed books by author or genre

You can enter each category as many times as you like and a winner from each state is picked per category. Tickets are $5.00 each. The fundraising goal is $20000 and prizes are drawn on 25th February so get in early to win great prizes.

If you're a budding writer you might like to donate an original short story to the 100 Stories for Queensland anthology. 100% of sales from this anthology will go towards the Queensland Premier's Flood Relief Appeal. Submissions are now open for stories of any genre or for any age group that range from 500-1000 words. Submission deadline is Friday 28th January at 11.59pm so get your story in now.