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Competition Results: Lambing Flat FAW

Posted on January 21, 2023 by kend

National Cherry Festival Writing Competition 2022

Celebrating 40 years at Young 1982–1922

Categories were:

Short Story Adult Section
Poetry Adult Section
Short Story School Students Section Yrs 7-8-9
Short Story School Students Section Yrs 10-11-12
Poetry School Students Section Yrs 7-8-9
Poetry School Students Section Yrs 10-11-12
Short Story Junior Primary Section Yrs 1-2-3
Short Story Junior Primary Section Yrs 4-5-6
Poetry Junior Primary Section Yrs 1-2-3
Poetry Junior Primary Section Yrs 4-5-6

The full

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Stories to share with My Partner: Book 3

Posted on November 30, 2022 by kend

J F NODAR.

Enjoy 39 stories each under four (4) minutes to read and share them with your partner!

New release available at www.jfnodar.com.au

An anthology of stories can be a fun thing or a scary one. Deciding what goes into an anthology can be daunting.

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Out of the Blue

Posted on November 30, 2022 by kend

MARGARET ZANARDO.

#189 Pocket Poets series, Ginninderra Press, South Australia, 2022.

Life has never been so unpredictable as it is now: like ocean waves—unrelenting, vast and ferocious, yet sometimes also strangely beautiful. These poems reflect the confronting times we are living in. But still our daily life continues,

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Results: FAW NSW Competitions 2022

Posted on November 30, 2022 by kend

2022 FAW Jean Stone Poetry Award

Winner:
‘From Impermanence’, David Atkinson, Beecroft NSW.

Short listed:

‘Under Opal Skies‘, Nola Vickery, Frenchs Forest NSW
‘Beauty in the Breeze‘, Rod Fransisco, Ooralea, QLD
‘Lewis (1934 – )‘, Allan Lake, Elwood VIC
‘The Writing on the Sea’,

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Borrowed Riches

Posted on October 27, 2022 by kend

JULIE THORNDYKE.

Amelia Fielden, poet and translator, wrote: “Borrowed Riches is an apt title for this fine collection of 100 short lyrics composed by an experienced and skilful poet. With her deft usage of the traditional Japanese tanka form, Julie Thorndyke presents to the reader a range of thoroughly modern,

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Crystal

Posted on October 27, 2022 by kend

JUDY PARKINSON.

Four couples set out on a self-drive three-day river cruise. Brett and Crystal, both in relationships with other partners, discover a deep attraction for each other. This does not go unnoticed, and anger and resentment begin to simmer between the friends. On the last day of the trip,

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To Origins and Back

Posted on October 27, 2022 by kend

GREG TOME.

Book of poetry: “…a rich meditation on what it means to be human. In this collection, Greg Tome ruminates on the universal and the personal: the tug of kith and kin, the scars of the past, and the seasons that ebb and flow around us and inside us.

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Nuggets of Gold

Posted on September 3, 2022 by kend

LAMBING FLAT YOUNG FAW.

Nuggets of Gold is an anthology containing the first prizewinning short stories and poems over past years of the Lambing Flat Young Branch annual writing competition from 1982 to the present.

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The Painted Man

Posted on April 13, 2022 by kend

SUSAN BOWEN.

A gripping new thriller in the Jessie Connor crime series.

What dark secrets lie behind the murder of Desmond Locke? Was his death a simple act of revenge or does it go much deeper?

When local artist,

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Missing in Red

Posted on April 6, 2022 by kend

JUDY PARKINSON.

Detective Sergeant Luke Ellington gains fame and acclaim for his heroism in the capture and conviction of sadistic serial killer, Clarence Campbell. He is subsequently assigned to find beautiful Elise Seymour, daughter of politician, David Seymour. Senior Constable Sarah Brogden is appointed his ‘side kick’.

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Orisons: Soulful Reflections

Posted on April 6, 2022 by kend

KIM P SAMI.

Layout and editing by Barbie Robinson; Illustrations and cover by Dee Copeland.

An Orison is a prayer or plea to a deity. This comes from a Latin word meaning to speak, and it means to speak to God. (www.vocabulary.com).

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Judge’s Report: Marjorie Barnard Award 2021

Posted on December 29, 2021 by kend

There were 125 entries in this year’s Marjorie Barnard Award and I enjoyed reading them all. I expected many would have the pandemic either as the focus of the story or at least in the background, but there were only three, and only one in which COVID 19 was central to the action of the story.

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Judge’s Comments: Hilarie Lindsay Short Story Competition 2021

Posted on December 29, 2021 by kend

The quality of the entries was very good. The winner and the commended stories were of a very high standard. I found difficulty in choosing a commended story. Those whose stories are shortlisted have high potential as creative writers.

Many writers had an imaginative story line and fell down when they didn’t deliver with tight writing.

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2021 Marjorie Barnard Award Prizewinning Story

Posted on December 22, 2021 by kend

Good People

by Jodie Kewley, Red Hill South, Victoria

His mother hardly spoke on the long drive home, which suited him. She asked if he wanted the radio on and he said no. She asked if he wanted to stop at Maccas and he said no.

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