2023 FAW Tasmania CHRISTMAS COMPETITIONS

Jacqueline Cooke Short Story Award

1st Prize: ‘Lionising Golden Boy’ by Jim Brigginshaw, Alstonville NSW
2nd Prize: ‘Historical blunders’ by David Brelsford, Legana TAS
Highly commended: Jim Brigginshaw, Alstonville NSW
Commended: Edith Speers, Dover TAS
Special mention: Jen Gibson, Sandy Bay TAS

Norma & Colin Knight Poetry Award

1st Prize: ‘Twenty-twenty vision’ by Fran Graham, Pinjarra WA
2nd Prize: ‘Who got to keep our mother’s handbag?’ by Christiane Conesa-Bostock, Sandy Bay TAS
Highly Commended: Ronald Atilano, Cardiff NSW
Commended: Jen Gibson, Sandy Bay TAS

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2023 FAW Tasmania Poetry Prize

1st Prize: ‘A Different Kind of Online’ by Susan Austin, TAS
2nd Prize: ‘Adrift’ by Andrea McMahon, TAS
Highly Commended: ‘The Normal Thrum’ by Susan Austin, TAS & ‘Flavours’ by Edith Speers, TAS
Commended: poems by Monica Harber, WA, Allan Lake, VIC & Roger Vickery, NSW

Thanks to Anne Kellas for judging the competition. Judge’s notes.

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2023 Beatrice Clarke Award for Young Poets

Equal 1st Prize: ‘Meadowbank’ and ‘Campfire’ by Samson Melody, age 14, TAS
Equal 2nd Prize: ‘A Journey that Leads to Nowhere’ & ‘Puzzle Piece’ by Abigail Lowe, age 14, TAS

Encouragement Award: ‘Like…’ by Essie O’Brien, age 10, TAS
Encouragement Award: ‘Neither Here nor There’ by Remy Francis, age 10, NSW

Highly Commended: a poem by Samson Melody, age 14, TAS
Commended: poems by Neve Andrew, age 11, TAS, Luc Francis, age 10, NSW, Nicholas Hugo, age 12, TAS, Timothy Hugo, age 8, TAS, Freya Miles, age 11, TAS, Bella Nixon, age 10, TAS, Minnie Sykes-Garland, age 11, TAS, Genesse Vanderplas, age 11, TAS, August Walter, age 8, TAS, Daisy Walter, age 6, TAS, Cara Watt, age 13, TAS, Caitlin Woolford, age 11, TAS

Thanks to Esther Ottaway for judging the competition.

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2023 Nairda Lyne Award

For a story suitable for children aged 8 to 12.

First Prize: ‘Finders & Keepers’ by Oscar Morphew, Reservoir VIC
Commended: John Storer, Bulli NSW, Andrea McMahon, Moonah TAS
Special Mention: Donna Austin, West Hobart TAS, Janice Williams, Stawell VIC

Thanks to Anne Morgan who judged the competition.

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2022 Beatrice Clarke Award for Young Poets

1st Prize: ‘Parrots of the dark’ by Joelle Rumsley, Woodsdale, TAS
2nd Prize: ‘Breathe’ by Abigail Lowe, Blackmans Bay, TAS
Encouragement prizes:Timothy Hugo & Elizabth Hugo, Blackmans Bay, TAS
Commended: Katie Crawford, West Hobart, TAS; Xavier Sinden, Taroona TAS; Augie Walter, Huonville, TAS, Luke Monty, Woodbridge, TAS; Richard Rumsley and Evan Rumsley, Woodsdale, TAS

Thanks to Louise Oxley and Esther Ottaway for judging the competition.

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2022 FAW Tasmania Poetry Prize

1st Prize: ‘The Fly-wire door’ by Pamela Leach, Lenah Valley, TAS
2nd Prize: ‘The Cut’ by Pamela Leach, Lenah Valley, TAS
Highly Commended: Edith Speers, Dover, TAS

Thanks to Louise Oxley and Esther Ottaway for judging the competition.

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2022 Nairda Lyne Award

For a story suitable for children aged 8 to 12.

First Prize: ‘Granny’s secret’ by Annabel Larkey, Sandy Bay, TAS
Highly Commended: Carmel Lillis, Yarraville, VIC
Commended: May Ann Napper, Narrabeen NSW; Neka Kendell, South Hobart TAS

Thanks to Georgia Bentley for judging the competition.

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2021 FAW Tasmania CHRISTMAS COMPETITIONS

Jacqueline Cooke Short Story Award

1st Prize: ‘Six o’clock baby’ by Cheryl Weare
2nd Prize: Mrs Nunn and the Blue Mask’ by Edith Speers

Norma & Colin Knight Poetry Award

1st Prize: ‘Nativity’ by Christiane Conesa-Bostock
2nd Prize: ‘And night and day’ by Esther Ottaway
Commended: Edith Speers
Special mention: Susan Austin

Jess Castle Non-Fiction Award

1st Prize: ‘The Beginning’ by Edith Speers
2nd Prize: ‘Sand mandalas’ by Christiane Conesa-Bostock

Thanks to Karen Knight-Witek and Jan Hardy for judging the competitions.

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2021 Nairda Lyne Award

For a story suitable for children aged 8 to 12.

First Prize: ‘Special delivery’ by Jenny England, Kiama, NSW
Commended and Hobart Bookshop Prize for the best Tasmanian entry: Annabel Larkey, Sandy Bay, TAS
Highly Commended: Kaeden Anantakrishnan, Lane Cove, NSW
Special mention: Susan Hancy, Newport, NSW

Thanks to Kay Allport for judging the competition.

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2020 FAW Tasmania CHRISTMAS COMPETITIONS

Jacqueline Cooke Short Story Award

Equal 1st Prize: ‘The Chrystal Cleaner’ by Edith Speers and ‘As I Was’ by John Biggs

Norma & Colin Knight Poetry Award

1st Prize: ‘Careful’ by Edith Speers
2nd Prize: ‘Perennial’ by Fran Graham
3rd Prize: ‘Flies’ by by Fran Graham
Highly Commended: Two poems by Graeme Hetherington and one by Fran Graham

Barney Roberts Non-fiction Award

1st Prize: ‘The Birth of the World’ by Edith Speers
2nd Prize: ‘Good memories cannot be blackened’ by Shirley Burke

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2020 FAW Tasmania Poetry Prize

1st Prize: ‘Blue Blubbers’ by Suzi Mezei, Mt Eliza VIC
2nd Prize: ‘In our Street’ by Liz McQuilkin, Sandy Bay, TAS
Highly Commended: Suzi Mezei and Laurel Jackson, Highett, VIC
Commended: Laurel Jackson

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2020 Nairda Lyne Award

For a story suitable for children aged 8 to 12.

First Prize: ‘Undercover’ by Carmel Lillis, Yarraville, VIC
Hobart Bookshop Prize for the best Tasmanian entry: ‘Smitten’ by Vianne Brain, Kingston, TAS
Commended: Susan Hancy, Newport, NSW

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2019 FAW Tasmania CHRISTMAS COMPETITIONS

Jacqueline Cooke Short Story Award

1st Prize: ‘Damselfly’ by Andrea McMahon
2nd Prize: ‘No Sex’ by Andrea McMahon
Special mention: David Brelsford, Maria Vagunda

Norma & Colin Knight Poetry Award

1st Prize: ‘Music from a Balcony in St Helens’ by Graeme Hetherington
2nd Prize: ‘Tasmanian English Tale & Weather Eye Cocked’ by Graeme Hetherington
3rd Prize: ‘Maria Decoopman, my grandmother’ by Christiane Conesa-Bostock
Highly Commended: Adam Stokell
Special mention: Karen Wilson

Barney Roberts Non-fiction Award

1st Prize: ‘A Great Exhibition’ by Penny Garnsworthy
Special mention: Karen Wilson

Thanks to Marion Stoneman for judging the competitions

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FAW Tasmania 2019 Poetry Prize

First prize: ‘Artemis and Actaeon’ by Graeme Hetherington
Second prize: ‘Penguin plaint’ by Janeen Samuel
Highly commended: Graeme Hetherington
Commended: Edith Speers, Jan Price, Graeme Hetherington, Ben Walter, Janeen Samuel

Thanks to Esther Ottaway for judging the competition.

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2019 Henry Savery Award

Winner: ‘A murmer of resistance’ by Freya Cox
Highly commended: Jodie Kewly, Ben Walter
Commended: David Vernon

Thanks to Robert Cox for judging the competition.

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2019 Nairda Lyne Award

For a story suitable for children aged 8 to 12.

First Prize and Hobart Bookshop Prize for the best Tasmanian entry: ‘Day of Ascension’ by Donna Lee Austin
Highly Commended: Janeen Brian

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2018 FAW Tasmania CHRISTMAS COMPETITIONS

Jacqueline Cooke Short Story Award

1st Prize: ‘Did you win?’ by David Brelsford
2nd Prize: ‘Sean, Dez and the Tea Cosy’ by Neve Mitchell
3rd Prize: ‘A Fine Matriarch’  by Andrea McMahon

Norma & Colin Knight Poetry Award

1st Prize: ‘Edible’ by Edith Speers
Equal 2nd Prize: ‘Yellow umbrellas’ by Austin Chan & ‘Game, Set and Match’ by Graeme Hetherington

Barney Roberts Non-fiction Award

1st Prize: ‘The Cherry Kingdom’ by Austin Chan
2nd Prize: ‘Wombat warriors’ by Ellie Rose
3rd Prize: ‘Don’t trivialize it’ by Eleanor Gribble

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FAW Tasmania 2018 Poetry Prize

1st Prize: ‘The Sexual Bonding of Gilgamesh and Enkidu’ by Graeme Hetherington
2nd Prize: ‘Urban Haiku’ by Julie Wakefield
Highly commended: David Campbell, Helen Swain, Ben Walter

Thanks to Louise Oxley for judging the competition.

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2018 Nairda Lyne Award

For a story suitable for children aged 8 to 12.

First Prize and Hobart Bookshop Prize for the best Tasmanian entry: ‘Ruby Two-Shoes and the Dragon who came for Breakfast’ by Gina Mercer, TAS

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2017 FAW Tasmania CHRISTMAS COMPETITIONS

Jacqueline Cooke Short Story Award

No prizes were awarded.

Norma & Colin Knight Poetry Award

1st Prize: ‘Maria Island grazing’ by Fran Graham
2nd Prize: ‘The Giddy Galahs Circus’ by Joan Parker
3rd Prize: ‘At Sati’s before going to mind my father’ by Fran Graham
Commended: Ben Walter & Edith Speers

Barney Roberts Non-fiction Award

No outright winner.

2nd Prize: ‘Faulty towers – French style’ by Penny Garnsworthy
Eqyal 3rd Prize: ‘Tackling Takayama’ by Penny Garnsworthy & ‘Bovine Encounters’ by Shirley Burke.

Thanks to Leigh Swinbourne, Karen Knight and John Biggs for judging the competitions.

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FAW Tasmania 2017 Poetry Prize

1st Prize:  ‘ Autumn conversations, for Pippa’  by Angela O’Rourke
2nd Prize:  ‘From Hobart Town Sketches’  by Graeme Hetherington
Commended:  Laurinda Blow, Fran Graham, Graeme Hetherington, Angela O’Rourke, Edith Speers, and Janice Williams

Thanks to Anne Kellas for judging the competition.

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2017 FAW Tasmania Henry Savery National Short Story Award

1st Prize: ‘Ducks, wild and otherwise’ by Jodie Kewley, Red Hill South VIC
2nd Prize: ‘Home’ by Brenda Crane, Glen Osmond SA
Commended: Rosie Barter, Beaconsfield WA

Thanks to Jane Williams for judging the competition.

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