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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