Competition Results

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.…

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,

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Results of the 2019 Local Literary Competition:

POETRY

• 1st: Ross Kurtz, ‘Lady in Chalk’
• 2nd: Ross Kurtz, ‘Dad’s Violin’
• 3rd: Thora Linquist, ‘The City Lad’
• Highly Commended: Leonie O’Brien,

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The Southern Highlands branch of the Fellowship of
Australian Writers (FAWSH) announces the winners of the Margaret Cech national
competition for writing Science Fiction and/or Fantasy.

The winner of the $1000.00 first prize went to Alison
Ferguson of the Lake Macquarie Branch for her story ‘Asylum’.

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These winners were announced at the FAW Awards Luncheon held in Sydney on Saturday 3rd November 2018.

The 2018 Walter Stone Biennial Award for Life Writing:

Winner: ‘Saving Sergeant Harlock’
by Nichole Overall, Queanbeyan

The 2018 Jean Stone Biennial Award for Poetry:

Winner: ‘The Inescapable Car’

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FAW NSW Hilarie Lindsay Short Story competition for Australian School Children.

Section 1: Years 10, 11 & 12

Winner: ‘Send me Home, my Friends’ (07)

Second: ‘Throw Gold and Silver Down to me’ (08)

Six stories in this section were beautifully written,

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Senior Secondary (Years 10, 11 & 12)

FAW NSW Hilarie Lindsay Short Story competition for Australian School Children.

SEND ME HOME, MY FRIENDS!

By Freya Cox

Some things never truly let you go,

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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,

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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.

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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.

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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,

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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,

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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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