Junior Secondary (Years 7, 8 & 9)
FAW NSW Hilarie Lindsay Short Story competition for Australian School Children.
SYDNEY COVE
By Willow Ross
If Elizabeth had discovered anything in the last month, it was that you do get used to the dark.
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Hilarie Lindsay 2017 competition
Section 3 Winning Story
Senior Primary (Years 5 & 6)
FAW NSW Hilarie Lindsay Short Story competition for Australian School Children.
INNOCENCE
by Isaac Robinson
I glanced up at the cloudy sky, the sun illuminating the evening in a vibrant pink. The first of a myriad of stars began to appear as soldiers ruffled anxiously around me,
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Hilarie Lindsay 2017 competition
Section 4 Winning Story
Junior Primary (Year 4 & under)
FAW NSW Hilarie Lindsay Short Story competition for Australian School Children.
DONT AND ME
By Justin Kim
I was on my bed, sighing and thinking of what humiliation would take place tomorrow. It was the donkey race and my donkey was the most stubborn donkey of them all.
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Results: 2017 FAW NSW Annual Writing Competitions
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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Judge’s Report: The 2017 FAWNSW Marjorie Barnard Award
From a longlist of 12 very good stories, I eventually drew up a shortlist of 4:
- 5: ‘Bad Bones’
- 13: ‘Kind’
- 38: ‘Thursdays at Samar’s’
- 39: ‘The Dark Road Home’.
After reading and re-reading these four stories I finally decided the winner should be No.
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Prize-winning Story: The 2017 FAW NSW Marjorie Barnard Award
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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Macarthur Writers Retreat
Posted 24 July 2017
Macarthur FAW writers look like getting their very own Writers Retreat.
Wedderburn Resources Centre will be turned into a hub for emerging writers. Wedderburn at Campbelltown is already the home of many well known artists. The secluded bush setting will offer writers a quiet place to work and write.
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FAW NSW Walter Stone Biennial Award for Life Writing 2016: Judge’s report
In July this year, Geordie Williamson, Chief Literary Critic of The Australian, wrote of the crisis facing the development of an Australian National Literature exacerbated by government funding cuts to the arts, ‘the defunding of literary magazines that incubate literary talent, [and] the likely dismantling of our local publishing industry through the scrapping of parallel importation laws’.
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FAW NSW Jean Stone 2016 Poetry Award: Winning Poem
FAW NSW Biennial Awards
Breathe
by Penny Lane
Breathe: inhale the breaths of eagles,
the breaths of emus, echidnas, kites
in saltbush, spinifex, airy country,
of gangurru, kanguru, kangaroo;
Inhale forty, fifty, sixty thousand years of human breaths
that tussle with scrub and gum and wattle;
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FAW NSW Jean Stone 2016 Poetry Award: Judge’s Report
I very much enjoyed reading the entries for this year’s Jean Stone Award. The following poems were short-listed:
# 8 ‘Breathe’
#10 ‘Scattering’
#64 ‘House sitting’
#11 ‘Horse-power’
Of these #8 ‘Breathe’ was chosen as the winner of the Award.
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Hilarie Lindsay Young Writers 2016 Poetry Awards
Results were announced at the November 5 FAW Awards Luncheon by Competition Convenor Cate Plink. The winners are:
Section 1 Senior Secondary (Years 10, 11 & 12):
Isabella Vacaflores, Year 10, North Sydney Girls High for ‘Stuff in Space’.
Section 2 Junior Secondary (Years 7,
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FAW NSW Biennial Awards
RESULTS:
The 2016 FAW NSW Walter Stone Biennial Award for LifeWriting
Announced at the November 5 FAW Awards Luncheon by the Judge of the Walter Stone Life Writing Award, Dr Rae Luckie, the 2016 winner is:
Richard Yaxley oam
for ‘Homecoming: A Memoir’.
Read the Judge’s Report here.
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FAWNS Literary Awards 2016
Fellowship of Australian Writers North Shore Branch
RESULTS:
Mini Memoir Section
1st Prize: ‘The Food of Love’, Jan Foster (Vic)
2nd Prize: ‘Discovering Daphne’, Carolyn Eldridge-Alfonzetti (NSW)
Highly Commended: ‘Wave to Mummy’, Eilene Cooke (Qld)
Commended: ‘A Painful Memory’,
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Lake Macquarie FAW Alice Sinclair Memorial Writing Competition 2016
RESULTS:
CATEGORY A: POETRY
First Place: ‘Dreams’ by Hessom Razavi, Fremantle WA
Second Place: ‘Polio’ by Pippa Kay, Hunters Hill NSW
Commended: ‘Ghost’ by Hessom Razavi, Fremantle WA
CATEGORY B: SHORT STORY
First Place (Equal): ‘Borderlines’ by Ryan Grice,
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FAW Shoalhaven Literary Awards for Poetry 2016
RESULTS:
The aim of this biennial competition since 1999 continues to be the recognition of literary excellence and the enhancement of the image of the Shoalhaven as a place of strong cultural development.
The Awards are sponsored by Shoalhaven Arts Board (of the Shoalhaven City Council),
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Dorothy Simmons wins Marjorie Barnard 2015 Short Story Award
As reported in the December issue of the Writers Voice:
Irish-born Dorothy Simmons, from Albury, was the well-deserved winner of the Marjorie Barnard 2015 Short Story Award, her short story being judged the best from 75 entries.
The winning entry, titled ‘Count Down’, was read by the competition judge,
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