In partnership with National Science Week 2021, StoryBursts and ICRAR welcomes new writers, emerging writers, established writers, creative writers, and science writers to engage with ICRAR research and researchers to produce a Creative Nonfiction monologue for performance.
The monologue can be inspired by a word, an image, a sentence, or a concept from ICRAR research and researchers – the only limit is your imagination.
COMPETITION CLOSES: July 2nd, 2021 at 11:59pm AWST
COST: Free
ENTRY DETAILS: In the first instance, please contact the competition organisers with an Expression of Interest
Writers can explore the ICRAR media releases for a topic that inspires you, but ICRAR researchers have suggested some topics to start with:
- Black Holes and Things that go Bang
- Local Universe (including our Milky Way)
- Big Data and Big Computers
And you can access some of these stories on the ICRAR Vimeo channel as well as thinking about some of the great astronomers of history
Black holes and things that go bang
- BLACK HOLE OUTBURST CAUGHT ON VIDEO
- ASTRONOMERS DETECT BIGGEST EXPLOSION IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE
- MAGIC TELESCOPES SEE MOST EPIC EXPLOSION
- SPINNING BLACK HOLE SPRAYS LIGHT-SPEED PLASMA CLOUDS INTO SPACE
- COSMICALLY CLOSE: ASTRONOMERS DISCOVER TWO GALAXY CLUSTERS ABOUT TO COLLIDE
- NEUTRON STAR JETS SHOOT DOWN THEORY
- SCIENTISTS FIND EVIDENCE OF FAR-DISTANT NEUTRINO SOURCE
- ASTRONOMERS OBSERVE THE MAGNETIC FIELD OF THE REMAINS OF SUPERNOVA 1987A
- STAR IN CLOSEST ORBIT EVER SEEN AROUND BLACK HOLE
- FATAL ATTRACTION BURNS BRIGHT BETWEEN STAR AND BLACK HOLE
- CLANDESTINE BLACK HOLE MAY REPRESENT NEW POPULATION
- SCIENTISTS SPOT JETS FROM SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLE SNACKING ON A STAR
- SCIENTISTS MEASURE SLOW DEATH OF THE UNIVERSE
- SUPER STAR TAKES ON BLACK HOLES IN JET CONTEST
- WHAT HAPPENS WHEN COSMIC GIANTS MEET GALACTIC DWARFS?
- ASTRONOMERS DISSECT THE AFTERMATH OF A SUPERNOVA
- SCIENTISTS SPOT JETS FROM SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLE SNACKING ON A STAR
- ASTRONOMERS OBSERVE CORKSCREW NATURE OF LIGHT FROM A DISTANT BLACK HOLE
- NEW FAST AND FURIOUS BLACK HOLE FOUND
- ASTRONOMERS REVEAL CONTENTS OF MYSTERIOUS BLACK HOLE JETS
- GRAVITATIONAL WAVES HELP UNDERSTAND BLACK-HOLE WEIGHT GAIN
- SUPERNOVA REMNANT 1987A CONTINUES TO REVEAL ITS SECRETS
- ASTRONOMERS STUDY TWO MILLION LIGHT YEAR ‘EXTRAGALACTIC AFTERBURNER’
- SCIENTISTS PINPOINT TIMING OF POWERFUL BLACK HOLE ACTIVITY
- ROBOTIC TELESCOPE SWINGS INTO ACTION FOR COSMIC EXPLOSION
Local Universe
- MOON HELPS REVEAL SECRETS OF THE UNIVERSE
- OUTBACK TELESCOPE CAPTURES MILKY WAY CENTRE, DISCOVERS REMNANTS OF DEAD STARS
- MAGELLANIC CLOUDS DUO MAY HAVE BEEN A TRIO
- TELESCOPE MAPS COSMIC RAYS IN LARGE AND SMALL MAGELLANIC CLOUDS
- OUTBACK RADIO TELESCOPE LISTENS IN ON INTERSTELLAR VISITOR
- MILKY WAY TIES WITH NEIGHBOUR IN GALACTIC ARMS RACE
- TELESCOPES TEAM UP TO STUDY GIANT GALAXY
- ASTRONOMER’S MAP REVEALS LOCATION OF MYSTERIOUS FAST-MOVING GAS
- HUNTING MOLECULES WITH THE MWA
- AUSTRALIAN DESERT TELESCOPE VIEWS SKY IN RADIO TECHNICOLOUR
- ASTROPHYSICISTS MAP THE MILKY WAY
- SCIENTISTS DISCOVER HIDDEN GALAXIES BEHIND THE MILKY WAY
- DARK MATTER HALF WHAT WE THOUGHT, SAY SCIENTISTS
- GALACTIC GEYSERS FUELLED BY STAR STUFF
- ASTRONOMERS DISCOVER “MISSING LINK” OF BLACK HOLES
- BLACK HOLE SURPRISE IN ANCIENT STAR CLUSTER
- THE MILKY WAY NOW HAS A TWIN (OR TWO)
- THE MILKY WAY: GALACTIC CANNIBAL
- GIANT COSMIC TAILS POINT TO A RECENT MARRIAGE
- ICRAR CONNECTS NEW TELESCOPES TO ACHIEVE MILESTONE
Big Data and Big Computers
- WORLD’S FASTEST SUPERCOMPUTER PROCESSES HUGE DATA RATES IN PREPARATION FOR MEGA-TELESCOPE PROJECT
- SUPERCOMPUTER TIME TO EXPLORE HOW BLACK HOLES AND JETS HAVE CHANGED OUR UNIVERSE
- WA SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY LEADERS PUT THEIR HEADS TOGETHER TO SEARCH FOR THE FIRST STARS AND GALAXIES
- UK-LED SIGNAL AND DATA TRANSPORT CONSORTIUM CONCLUDES DESIGN WORK
- ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE BOT TRAINED TO RECOGNISE GALAXIES
- SYNCHRONISATION SYSTEM DESIGNS CHOSEN FOR SKA TELESCOPES
- WORLD’S BIGGEST TELESCOPE MEETS WORLD’S SECOND FASTEST SUPERCOMPUTER
- SEEING STARS THROUGH THE CLOUD
- PAWSEY POWERHOUSE SUPERCOMPUTER CRUNCHES PRE-SKA DATA TORRENT
- ASTRONOMICAL SUPERCOMPUTERS OF THE FUTURE COULD HAVE INTEL INSIDE
- DETAILS ANNOUNCED OF PAWSEY CENTRE SUPERCOMPUTER PROCUREMENT
- SUPERCOMPUTING REACHING FOR THE STARS
- GEARING UP FOR DATA DELUGE FROM WORLD’S BIGGEST RADIO TELESCOPE
- SCOPING THE COST OF THE WORLD’S BIGGEST NEW SUPERCOMPUTER
- THE SKY IS FALLING AND IT’S RAINING PETABYTES
- SUPERCOMPUTER TO BOOST SKA CHANCES
- KAREN CONNECTS AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND SKA TEAMS OVER 5500 KM
- WA SOARS INTO TOP 100 SUPERCOMPUTER LIST
