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$1500

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No Place for Flowers
Shereen Ricupero
WA

$1000

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Some Days The Air Is Soft
Melanie Jansen
Woolloongabba, QLD

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$500

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Climate Control
Mahli Rose
Lower Hermitage, SA

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an award for a story or poem about grief or loss after the death of a child

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Outside Forever
Bronwyn Ryan
Hallidays Point, NSW

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$250

an award for a story or poem about grief or loss other than death

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Goodbye Girl
Kat S

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$300

an award for a story or poem about grieving the loss of a loved one during COVID

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Heart Weeding
Deborah Huff-Horwood
Kingston, ACT

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$250

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Cloudy Mountain
Tric O’Heare
Brunswick, VIC

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The Nurse
Justine Kuszelyk
Mayfield, NSW

Earth with sunrise

$200

2 x $100 awards for stories or poems about the world: the natural world,
or the social or political world  

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The Taste of Bread
Mark Konik
Garden Suburb, NSW

and

After Fourteen Years, The Boorabbin Fire Finally Claims You 
Renee Schipp
Denmark, WA

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$200

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The Brother
Fiona Jarvis
Acton Park, TAS

 

$100

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No Headstone
Em Readman
Baldivis, WA

 

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$200

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Dear You
Kristen Roberts
Braybrook, VIC

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$200

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My Father Teaches Me to Walk
Seetha Nambiar Dodd
Forestville, NSW

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$200

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The Day After We Buried You
Rose Lucas
Seddon, VIC

Kenneth Davison

In Memoriam Award
$300

In memory of Kenneth Davison

an aeronautical engineer who enjoyed reading, the freedom of driving and the exercise in walking. Always a man of integrity committed to his family.

 

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Waiting in Radiology
Richenda Rudman
Kensington, VIC

 

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In Memoriam Award
$200

In memory of Trent Barden, musician, writer, artist, dreamer, creator, and a son, brother, uncle, cousin and friend to many, who passed away too young and too soon. May you forever touch dragon flies and stars, dance with fairies and talk to the moon. Your song may have ended but your melody lives on.

 

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Ashes to Gold
Jo Skinner

 

In Memoriam Award
$100

In memory of Kevin Corby who loved to soak up Australian bush poetry and stories. He also loved bird watching and taking care of his family. Prize donated by his granddaughter, Renee.

 

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The Bally Wind
Louise Martin-Chew
Sheldon, QLD

 

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$100

 

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The Gift
Carolyn Eldridge-Alfonzetti    
North Epping, NSW

 

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$100

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Passionfruit
Kylie Bates
Eleebana, NSW

 

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an award for writing about grief
related to mental ill health

$100

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The Cull
David Campbell
Aireys Inlet, Vic

 

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View the list of all authors selected to be published
in the 2021 Grieve anthology – vol. 9

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