The FAWNSW Marjorie Barnard Short Story Award

Awarded to:
Gabrielle Leago for ‘The Dark Road Home’.

• Judge’s Report
• The prize-winning story.

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

• Judge’s Comments

Section 1: Senior Secondary (Years 10,

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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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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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FAW NSW Biennial Awards

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 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 Biennial Awards

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Winners of the 2015 FAW Hilarie Lindsay Young Writers Awards for SHORT STORY were:
Group 1—Years 10, 11 and 12:

First:
Lindsay Morrison ‘The Lost Girl’ (St Pauls College, Kempsey).
Second:
Keighley Bradford ‘The Actress, the Spy and the P.I.’ (Narrabri High School).
Third:
Rosie Watts ‘Ana’

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Pippa Kay wrote:

It is always a pleasure to read the stories submitted for this award, and this year’s 75 entries were all interesting, amusing or dramatic. The difficulty is deciding a winner!

This year I was fussier than usual: stories with poor openings,

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The Central Coast Branch of the Fellowship of Australian Writers has announced the winners of the Mona Brand Biennial Competition.

Congratulations to everyone involved.

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Results of the Eastwood/Hills FAW 2015 Literary Competition

SHORT STORY

(Judges Philippa Holland and Laura Davies)

H/Comm:
‘The Land Army’, Mark Fowler;
‘A Women on the Boards’, Mark Fowler
2nd:
‘Plots for Sale’, Cynthia Rowe
1st:
‘In Late Summer’,

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