The 2024 competition dates are: Closes: 14th April – Last email by midnight AEST. Shortlisted entries will be notified by 20th June.

We're excited to announce that while we're still finalising the 2023 program, bookings are now opened, and so it the competition.

Oh goodness, time is flying past, and deadlines are looming. We’re excited to announce the final judges of the published categories...

More editors, more bootcamps, more news

The 2022 CYA Writing and Illustrating Competitions are now open.

If you haven't already heard the full lists are up of this year's competition results.

Congratulations to everyone who made the list. Thank you to all the judges of round one!

Congratulations to all those who entered the inaugural Illustration Station and CYA Conference Illustration Awards. The winners are:...

Illustration Award Shortlist Announced

Now that the competitions are closed we thought it'd be fun to share a few stats.

Don't forget the that the Competitions close at midnight Australian Eastern Standard time tonight. 12 writing categories and there's...

Announcing the published section judges for the 2021 writing competition categories

We are excited to announce that we have teamed up with The Illustration Station to bring you The Illustration Station and CYA Conference...

2020 has been a tough year and we want to throw you a lifebuoy and give one lucky person a chance to join our shipwrecked Writers at Sea...

Well done to everyone who took the big step of entering, and having an unknown face look at your work, and give their opinion and...

Have you changed email addresses since registering for the 2020 CYA All-Stars Conference? Now would be a good time to let us know as...

We’ve decided to make the call earlier than planned, to go virtual for 2020. And, rather than run the three streams each day on one weekend.

We're so excited to present our new sparkly website. It's been a while in the making, and we hope you like it as much as we do. We still...

On 7th July 2018, the 13th CYA Conference took place in Brisbane. With just over 200 people on site, we had an amazing day. Thank you to...

CYA Conference is pleased to announce the short list for the CYA Conference 2018 Writing and Illustrating Competition. Please note that...