Exploring Our Kinship with Nature
2026 Regenesis Call for Entries
A COLLABORATION BETWEEN
2026 Regenesis Competition
Calling all Creatives—In 2026, we are continuing our collaboration with partner organisations Resilient Blue Mountains and winning prize sponsors to produce the 2026 Regenesis Anthology of short stories, poems and visual images by local Blue Mountains creatives. This year we are adding 2 more categories: original lyric + music, resulting in the 2026 Regenesis CD and showing of a 2-4 min Regenesis video.
This project reaches out to engage with young people 12 – 18 years, and adults, 18 year and over, with the video category only for 15 – 25 yr olds.
The theme for 2026 is ‘Our Kinship with Nature’. In 2025 the theme was ‘Living Sustainably’. In 2024 it was ‘Weaving Connections’, in 2023 ‘Water’ and in 2022 ‘Regenesis’.
Each year we end the project with a public event celebrating the winning entries for each category.
Through this project we seek to engage our community in exploring ideas of regenesis (regenerative enlivenment)—spreading the seeds of relationality as a new/ancient way of being, thinking and doing.
It’s the shift from extractivist competitive individualism to a relational enlivenment worldview.
– Project Leads: Barbara Lepani, David Christie, Brad Diedrich and Linda Blagg.
Call for Entries
Regenesis 2026
Theme: Our Kinship with Nature
A COLLABORATION BETWEEN
Call for Entries
Regenesis 2026 Competition
Theme: Our Kinship with Nature
Eligibility: Residents of the Greater Blue Mountains Community
Nepean to Lithgow
Submissions close on 30 June 2026
Q&A Info Session 22 March 2-4pm Junction 142, Katoomba
Submissions: Entries are free – limited to one entry per category, by email with attachments
Completed submission form + works
text as word docs
images as png/jpg
music as mp3
video as mp4 – best method is to place your entry on your own YouTube channel as an unlisted video and then send us the link. Winning entries will be included in a playlist on our YouTube channel.
Entry Categories: Youth (12-18 yrs) and Adults (18 yrs and over)*
• Short Story – up to 1,000 words in length
• Poetry – up to 150 words in length
• Visual Artwork – image of original work in 2D, 3D, photograph or illustration
• Lyric with music— original work, lyric in text and music in audio file mp3
• *Video–2-4 mins for 15-25 yr olds in mp4
Winning Entry Prizes —selected by independent assessment panels of three ‘experts’
Youth: $250 for the winner in each of the four categories for participants under 18 years of age in 2026.
Adults: $250 for the winner in each of the four categories for participants 18 years of age and over in 2026
Video: $250 for the winning entry 15-25 yr olds
Celebration of Winning Entries on Sunday 18 October 2026, 2-4.30pm
—All prize winners presenting their work
—Printed Regenesis 2026 anthology of all short-listed short stories, poetry and art images for sale
—Regenesis 2026 CD of short-listed lyric + music entries, available for sale
—Winning Regenesis 2026 Video shown at event. Other entries published on YouTube.
Online Entries
Fill in the Online Form on our partner’s site
Regenesis 2022
Regenesis 2023
Regenesis 2025
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