City of Belmont - Ruth Faulkner Public Library

Award winning Australian writing, edited by Chloe Brien

Award winning Australian writing

edited by Chloe Brien

The eighth edition of Award Winning Australian Writing (AWAW) continues its commitment to showcasing the best short stories and poems that have won competitions around the country.he collection will feature over fifty writers and competitions. It will include a foreword by Elizabeth Flux, freelance writer and editor of Voiceworks magazine. Both established and emerging writers are featured in this year's anthology, including Kevin Gillam, Emmie Rae, Jessica Yu, Laura Elizabeth Woollett, Chloe Wilson, who won The Age Short Story Competition in 2012, and David Campbell, who has published two books of original Australian verse and a collection of short stories, and has been published extensively in Australian short story and poetry anthologies

Foreword / Elizabeth Flux -- Introduction / Chloe Brien -- Six liporams (Booranga Prize - Poetry) / Mark O'Flynn -- Keh Kut (Best fiction piece in an Express Media Publication (co-winner)) / Jessica Yu -- A white woman in Ōjin (Marjorie Graber-McInnis short story award) / Ashley Thomson -- Snow in Africa (Best fiction piece in an Express Media Publication (co-winner)) / Elizabeth Kuiper -- Snake (Alan Marshall short story award - local writers prize (co-winner)) / Frances Olive -- Not fox nor axe (Arts Queensland val vallis award for an unpublished poem) / Chole Wilson -- Little birds (Melaleuca Blue life writing competition) / Karen Manwaring -- Counting stars (Society of women writers Tasmania Robyn Mathison poetry prize) / Marilyn Humbert -- Dancing (Joanne Burns micro-lit award) / Nick Couldwell -- Chalk (Olga Masters short story award) / H. T. Thomas -- Every story must have... (FreeXpresSion literary competition - free verse poetry) / David Campbell -- The appointment (Victorian young writers award) / James Noonan -- A tick tock heart (Stringybark future times awayrd) / Disapol Savetsila -- I am my own person, standing on the asphalt by a family of fallen plants (Best poetry piece in an Express Media Publication) / Emmie Rae -- Soybeans (John Marsden/Hachette Australia prize - 18-24 fiction category) / Laura Elizabeth Woolett -- Hangman's Blood (The Stringybark erotic short fiction award) / Maria Bonar -- The man on the moon (E. J. Brady short story competition - Gabo prize) / Becky Bunting -- Last man standing (Alan Marshall award - open section) / Michelle Wright -- Round (Rachel Funari prize for fiction) / Katelin Farnsworth -- Nude descending a staircase (KSP poetry award) / Shey Marque -- Post-partum (Hal Porter short story competition) / Kerrin O'Sullivan -- Water's edge (Fellowship of Australian writers John Shaw Neilson award) / Simon Kennedy -- Little ray of sunshine (Joseph Furphy commemorative literary prize) / Margaret Betts -- You make it now (Clare writers' festival - the write week! poetry competition) / Marjorie Lewis-Jones -- Blind (Melton short story competition) / Christine Mackley -- Web design (Ned Kelly S. D. Harvey short story award) / Emma Viskic -- Your mother was a dancer (QUT postgraduate creative writing prize (co-winner) / Ben Goodfellow -- Mountain. Predator. Shell (Young Tasmanian writers' prize - senior section) / Lily Stojcevski -- As wasps fly upwards (Australian Book Review Peter Porter poetry prize) / Judith Beveridge -- Vinyl (QUT undergraduate creative writing prize) / Jonathan O'Brien -- Latency {Australian science fiction foundation amateur short story award) / Lauren E. Mitchell -- Stilettos (Michael Thwaites poetry award) / Robyn Lance -- Leaf in my hands (Young Tasmanian writers' prize - Junior section) / Freya Cox -- The breaker (New England thunderbolt prize for crime writing) / Bob Wright -- 1952 : survivors (Poetica Christi press poetry competition) / Christopher Ringrose -- The elements (QUT postgraduate creative writing prize (co-winner)) / Laura Elvery -- Not ending it (Kitchen table poets all poetry competition) / John Upton -- Tangerine sun (Above water anthology prize) / Will Whiten -- Lost sea voices (Nillumbik Ekphrasis poetry award) / Felicity Plunkett -- Speaking bluntly (Ron Pretty poetry prize) / Sarah Rice -- The rag star (Fellowship of Australian writers Western Australia Stuart-Hadow short story competition) / Jim Brigginshaw -- Someone is misisng (Eastwood/Hills Regional annual literary award - Pauline Walsh Award) / Carmel Lillis -- To swim the purple sea (Alan Marshall short story award - local section (co-winner)) / Keren Heenan -- The moon's reminder (Sawtooth ARI writing prize - poetry) / Kevin Gillam -- Ellery Creek (Boroondara literary award) / Anne Vines -- The face of the Derwnt (Les Harris short story prize) / Ben Walter -- River (Grace Marion Wilson emerging writers competition) / Else Fitzgerald -- Snowy - the reflection of a river (Coo-ee fest