The 2019 Marjorie Barnard Short Story Award

Winner: Diana Blackwood, Aranda ACT, for ‘Dissent’.
Read the prizewinning Marjorie Barnard story here.

2019 Marjorie Barnard award winner Diana Blackwood (left) with competition convenor Cate Plink.

The 2019 Hilarie Lindsay Young Writers Short Story
Competition for Australian School Children

Section 1: Senior High School (Years 10,

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Reproduced here is the prizewinning short story in the 2019 FAW NSW Marjorie Barnard Competition

Dissent

by Diana Blackwood

By
the time he reached the edge of the lake, Geoffrey had almost run out of indignation. He lowered the bow of the kayak,

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Results of the 2019 Local Literary Competition:

POETRY

• 1st: Ross Kurtz, ‘Lady in Chalk’
• 2nd: Ross Kurtz, ‘Dad’s Violin’
• 3rd: Thora Linquist, ‘The City Lad’
• Highly Commended: Leonie O’Brien, ‘The Man’ and Ross Kurtz, ‘Nine White Choughs’
• Commended: Leonie O’Brien,

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The Southern Highlands branch of the Fellowship of
Australian Writers (FAWSH) announces the winners of the Margaret Cech national
competition for writing Science Fiction and/or Fantasy.

The winner of the $1000.00 first prize went to Alison
Ferguson of the Lake Macquarie Branch for her story ‘Asylum’.

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