Competition Results and Winning Entries.
The 2025 Hilarie Lindsay Short Story Competition for Australian School Students This year we awarded our first ever Certificate of Excellence. The student was Yunha Back from Kent Road public school. You can read Yunha’s story here. WINNERS: Junior Primary A – …
Swinging Gates Catherine McElroy From the clothesline, Megan watches a distant cloud of dust. A car approaches along the gravel road that borders the farm. Not many people have cause to pass along this road: a car seen out here …
Winning Story: The 2025 Marjorie Barnard Short Story Award Read more »
Let This Place Speak Susan Temby This is Catherine, Cat for short, talking to her father Ferg, Fergus Fraser. A clever man, witty, generous, self-educated. He died not long after this conversation. Let him speak. Let this place speak. Let …
Winning Story: The 2025 Ernestine Hill Memorial Short Story Award Read more »
Song of The Depression Helen Harvey The wool demand has fallen and it’s much the same for wheat – the country-side is ringing with the sound of tramping feet.In sombre solitude we wander as we wonder why our land is so …
Winning Poem: The 2025 Rae Cerhan Australiana Ballad Award Read more »
Where the sound of light exists Yunha Back Nobody noticed the boy with the violin. Every afternoon, like clockwork, he settled at the very edge of the city square-just where the sunlight began to fade and shadows stretched like whispers …
The results have been released for the winners and place-getters in the Country Press NSW 125th Anniversary Writing Awards, which were judged by the Fellowship of Australian Writers, NSW. Details in Writers Voice. Country Press NSW wishes to express appreciation to …
Results: Country Press NSW 125th Anniversary Writing Awards Read more »