The 2023 Annual Lliterarary Competition and Boree Log Poetry Competition are now open.
The competition closes on Monday 15th May 2023.
Certificates and monetary prizes are awarded to first and second place in each of our four categories. All details, guidelines and entry forms are found in the links below. Please read and follow these guidelines carefully.
Amendment: The table of results isn’t capable of being viewed on all devices, so here is a link to the results if needed. Judges reports for each category will be posted shortly.
Eastwood/ Hills FAW has completed judging for our Annual Literary Competition. We are very pleased to congratulate the following 2022 Category Winners and place-getters.
Apologies for the delay in posting these results.
Eastwood/ Hills FAW has completed judging for our Annual Literary Competition Presentation Day. We are very pleased to congratulate the following 2020 Category Winners and place-getters.
For the judges reports, please refer to the following link…
Eastwood/ Hills FAW recently held our Annual Literary Competition Presentation Day. We are very pleased to congratulate the following 2019 Category Winners and place-getters.
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Prize winners 2019 |
place |
Title |
Author |
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short story |
1st |
A sense of Place |
Janice Williams |
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2nd |
Bones of Death |
Jim Briggenshaw |
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commended |
Blast the Fish |
Jim Kent |
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commended |
Head Cheese |
Janeen Samuel |
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commended |
Writer’s Pride |
Janet Upcher |
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commended |
An Act of Closure |
Terrie Ferman |
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Short Short story |
1st |
The Night Parrot |
Kerrin O’Sullivan |
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2nd |
Hells Belles |
Jim Briggenshaw |
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HC |
Heaven |
Kerry Lown Whalen |
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Commended |
The Cando Kid |
Paul Hydes |
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commended |
Rosie’s Present |
Jim Brigginshaw |
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Poetry |
1st |
Kimberley |
Richenda Rudman |
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2nd |
Hyacinths and Biscuits |
David Terelinck |
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HC |
Snapshot of a Fishing Village |
JLKoch |
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HC |
Nana’s Undies |
David Terelinck |
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HC |
Swallows |
Janeen Samuel |
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|
C |
Spinsters |
Janet Upcher |
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C |
Song of Freedom |
Mandy Langlois |
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C |
Spitfire Pilots |
Richenda Rudman |
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Memoir |
1st |
The Garrya |
Janeen Samuel |
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2nd |
Magpie Life Lessons |
Don Horne |
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Boree Log |
1st |
The Struggle |
Brenda Joy |
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HC |
So Women Wept |
Brenda Joy |
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HC |
Imitation Eagles |
Brenda Joy |
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|
C |
Country Pubs |
Janice Williams |
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|
C |
Searching |
Denise Aldridge |
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|
C |
An Honest Man |
Jim Kent |
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Short Story Section
First Place: ‘An Artist and his Models’, Helen Lyne, NSW
Second Place: ‘Lifesavers’, Margaret Campbell, Vic
Highly Commended:
‘Photo Opportunity’, Janice Williams, Vic
‘A Beige Room’, Jacqueline Trott, NSW
‘A Certain Sanctuary’, Philip Derone, NSW
Commended:
‘Can you Smell Sulphur’, Jim Kent, NSW
‘Being Neighbourly’, Margot Ogilvie, SA
‘Pilgrimage’, Kerrin O’Sullivan, Vic
Poetry Section
First Place: ‘Manji the Old Man Mad with Painting’, Shane McCauley, WA
Second Place: ‘Dirty Laundry’, David Terelinck, QLD
Highly Commended:
‘Uninvited Guest’, Vivien de Jong, Vic
‘Nowhere to Turn’, David Campbell, Vic
‘Red Lipstick’, Richenda Rudman, Vic
‘Mr Merman’s Pool’, Wendall Watt, NSW
Commended:
‘At the Breast Clinic’, Shane McCauley, WA
‘Uluru Caper’, Decima Wraxall, NSW
Alan Russell Memoir Section
First Place: ‘The Music Teacher’, Shelley Hansen, QLD
Second Place: ‘Clouds’, Jahan Tyson, NSW
Highly Commended:
‘Sketchbooks of Memory – Epiphanies’, Anita Howard, NSW
‘Taken as Red’, Jim Brigginshaw, NSW
‘Needlework’, Cheryl Howard, Vic
Commended:
‘The Day Dad Fixed the Shed’, Judith Turner, NSW
‘The Beauty of Queensland’, Joe Harrison, NSW
‘Billy Cart Kids’, Dianna Edwards, QLD
Pauline Walsh Award for Short, Short Story Section
First Place: ‘Just Desserts’, Elizabeth Egan, NSW
Second Place: ‘Reach for the Sky’, David Campbell, Vic
Highly Commended: ‘A Love Story’, Barbara Vertigan, Vic
Commended:
‘Out of the Fog’, Don Horne, NSW
‘It’s a Small World’, Elaine Staples, NSW
Boree Log Section
First Place: ‘Riley’s Billy Lids’, Tom McIlveen, NSW
Second Place: ‘Modern Day Drovers’, Brenda Joy, QLD
Highly Commended:
‘The Trouble and Strife’, Jan Foster, Vic
‘The Flower Thief’, Jim Brigginshaw, NSW
Commended: ‘Boiled Eggs’, Shelley Hansen, QLD
Welcome to our new page where we will endeavour to bring you latest releases from our authors on a regular basis. You will still be able to find all of our member achievements in the usual space (here) and current member publications (here, by clicking on the sidebar) If you are interested in any of our member publications you can purchase them directly from the author whose details will appear with their publication shortly.
Today we’d like to share two releases new to our website from two of our talents writers.
Saffron and Silk is Anne Benjamin’s beautifully written novel about life as a young Australian Indian bride during the time of the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Ghandi. Anne uses her personal experience to explore the larger issues of India’s culture and history, making Saffron and Silk a personal insider story of some of the treasures and dilemmas of a country that is increasingly significant to contemporary Australia.
A Cobbled Path is Erina Booker’s eighth collection of poems. Erina has focused her finely-tuned artist’s eye on everything from the mercurial nature of love, to the existential questions of loss, loneliness, and grief, and the many things in between.
Discover how this gentle two year collaboration between an Australian writer and a seventeen year old South African illustrator came to be.
beverleygeorge@idx.com.au
Sneeze Power [ for children 7-9] is published by Blake Education (2006). Available from Beecroft Bookshop –
Telephone 02 9481 8811, or email
staff@thechildrensbookshop.com.au
It is available for r.r.p. of $9.95
Spinifex: haiku is a new haiku collection by Beverley George. It contains many of her prize-winning haiku and haiku sequences, and her haibun, Gathering Coke, which was voted best of issue by Presence readers.
“… the form and style of Beverley’s writing is current international best practise for haiku-in-English. Spinifex is a book to delight the haiku-lover, to grace any haijin’s bookcase, and to serve as an exemplar for the novice haiku writer.’ – John Bird
‘Beverley George’s haiku take us on a compelling journey through the Australian landscape from the coast to country towns. These intimate, keenly observed poems deserve to be read again and again. Spinifex is a collection to be treasured.’ – Vanessa Proctor
Spinifex is available from Pardalote Press. Please visit http://www.pardalote.com.au/ or contact Lyn Reeves at info@pardalote.com.au
empty garden is the first collection of tanka by Beverley George. She is responsible for launching “Eucalypt: a tanka journal”, Australia’s first literary journal for tanka only, confirming her enthusiasm for this thirteen hundred year old genre.
This book contains more than sixty tanka and five tanka sequences. Themes throughout draw from the poet’s own rich life, and from careful observation of others. Her method of composition reflects best contemporary practice for tanka written in English as well as demonstrating her deep respect for traditional waka, as tanka was known from the Heian period until around 1900.
This book is available for $15 (inlcuding postage within Australia). For information on ordering, contact Beverley at editor@eucalypt.info or visit her website at http://www.eucalypt.info/
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