The FAWNSW Marjorie Barnard Short Story Award
Awarded to:
Gabrielle Leago for ‘The Dark Road Home’.
The FAWNSW Hilarie Lindsay Young Writers Short Story Competition for Australian School Children
Section 1: Senior Secondary (Years 10,
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The FAWNSW Marjorie Barnard Short Story Award
Awarded to:
Gabrielle Leago for ‘The Dark Road Home’.
The FAWNSW Hilarie Lindsay Young Writers Short Story Competition for Australian School Children
Section 1: Senior Secondary (Years 10,
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From a longlist of 12 very good stories, I eventually drew up a shortlist of 4:
After reading and re-reading these four stories I finally decided the winner should be No.
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The Dark Road Home
by Gabrielle Leago
When we were young we ran laughing through storms. Now we shamble hip to hip, stepping carefully over puddles, scowling into wind-blown rain, his bones sharp against me. In the car park I’m cheered by the sight of the stolid ute,
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The NSW Writers’ Centre has announced that Round 2 of the Writing NSW Access for Regional Writers Grants are open from Monday 20 November 2017, closing on Sunday 3 December 2017.
These $300 travel grants are designed to assist writers in regional NSW attend a professional development event that helps develop their careers as writers.
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Nambucca Valley Writers Group invites entries in its So-Bad-It’s-Good Writing Competition.
$500 first prize, $250 second, $100 third, plus e-book publication for fifty or so of the best of the bad.
Rules and examples of the genre can be viewed at www.nambuccawriters.info
If you are champing at the bit to write a narrative with more clichés than you can poke a stick at and if you can create similes that are so excruciatingly erroneous they’ll make everyone LOL this competition is for you!
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