$1500
Winner
No Place for Flowers
Shereen Ricupero
WA
$1000
Winner
Some Days The Air Is Soft
Melanie Jansen
Woolloongabba, QLD
$500
Winner
Climate Control
Mahli Rose
Lower Hermitage, SA
$300
an award for a story or poem about grief or loss after the death of a child
Winner
Outside Forever
Bronwyn Ryan
Hallidays Point, NSW
$250
an award for a story or poem about grief or loss other than death
Winner
Goodbye Girl
Kat S
$300
Winner
Heart Weeding
Deborah Huff-Horwood
Kingston, ACT
$250
Winner
Cloudy Mountain
Tric O’Heare
Brunswick, VIC
$250
Winner
The Nurse
Justine Kuszelyk
Mayfield, NSW
$200
2 x $100 awards for stories or poems about the world: the natural world,
or the social or political world
Winner
The Taste of Bread
Mark Konik
Garden Suburb, NSW
and
After Fourteen Years, The Boorabbin Fire Finally Claims You
Renee Schipp
Denmark, WA
$200
Winner
The Brother
Fiona Jarvis
Acton Park, TAS
$100
Winner
No Headstone
Em Readman
Baldivis, WA
$200
Winner
Dear You
Kristen Roberts
Braybrook, VIC
$200
Winner
My Father Teaches Me to Walk
Seetha Nambiar Dodd
Forestville, NSW
$200
Winner
The Day After We Buried You
Rose Lucas
Seddon, VIC
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.
Winner
Waiting in Radiology
Richenda Rudman
Kensington, VIC
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.
Winner
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.
Winner
The Bally Wind
Louise Martin-Chew
Sheldon, QLD
$100
Winner
The Gift
Carolyn Eldridge-Alfonzetti
North Epping, NSW
$100
Winner
Passionfruit
Kylie Bates
Eleebana, NSW
an award for writing about grief
related to mental ill health
$100
Winner
The Cull
David Campbell
Aireys Inlet, Vic
In Memoriam Award
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