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RESULTS



Results of 2008 Nairda Lyne Award


Winner:                  'Charmed'  by Vicki Stanton of Bulli NSW

Special Hobart Bookshop prize for best Tasmanian entry:

 'The Jacket' by Pam Noble of Brighton Tas


Highly Commended:

                        Aleesha Darlison of Balgowlah Heights NSW
                        Andrea McMahon of Taroona Tas
                        Romy Stephens of St Andrews Vic
                        Diana Thurbon of Keysborough Vic
                        Dee White of Romsey Vic

Commended:

                        Di Bates of Woonona East NSW
                        A.J. Key of Brighton Qld


We thank all the writers who entered the award and congratulate the prizewinners and those who were shortlisted.

We also thank the judges, members of the Bentley and Williams families, for their careful scrutiny of all entries.


King Island Literary Award 2008 Results
 

First Prize:  'Wandering Off'  by Louise Oxley of Sandy Bay

Equal Second Prize:  'This Sunday' by Lyn Reeves of Lauderdale

and

                     'Something About Seagulls' by Leanne Jaeger of West Hobart


Special Prize for a King Island Resident:

                        'My Sense of Place' by Margaret Bennett of Currie


Judge: Liz Winfield


We thank all those Tasmanian writers who entered the competition.

2007 Christmas Competitions


Margaret Giordano Non-Fiction Award

                                 
1st Prize:    'Coombar and Lawhill - The Ship on the Chocolate Box' - Jim Bashfield

2nd Prize:   'Enchanted with Cricket' - Pat Hudspeth

3rd Prize:   'Crie de Coeur at Thirteen' - Margaret Stafford



Nine entries judged by Anne Collins
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Terry & Hal Moore Poetry Award
                                

Equal 1st:     'Cloth' - Sheila Burchill

                     'Two women and a Turkish Dessert' - Susan Austin

Runner-up:   'Painting' - Sheila Burchill

Commended:  Sheila Spargo, Edith Speers and Margaret Stafford



22 entries judged by Peter Macrow
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Betty Nicholson Short Story Award


1st Prize:    'Encounters of the Koala Kind' - Alan C. Williams

2nd Prize:   'Like Lightning' - Andrea McMahon

3rd Prize:   'The Last Laugh' - Nora Potter

Commended: Rosemary King and Ted Sturges



12 entries judged by Megan Schaffner
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2007 Norma & Colin Knight Award

                                 
1st Prize:   Jenny Barnard    'Canticle of the Flowers'

2nd Prize:   Graeme Hetherington    'Artemis and Actaeon'


Commended:     Graeme Hetherington
                          Susan Austin
The award was judged by well-known poet Louise Oxley.

FAW-Tas Inc thanks the Knight Family for sponsoring this award,
and all those members who supported it by entering their poems.

2007 Henry Savery National Short Story Award

                                 
1st Prize:   'Roots' by David Campbell of Beaumaris, Victoria

2nd Prize:   'The Carpark' by G.L. Osborne of Caulfield South, Victoria


Commended:     G.L. Osborne of Caulfield South, Victoria

There werer 103 entries in the award, which was judged by Jane Williams, whose short story collection Other Lives was published by Ginninderra Press earlier this year.

We thank all those who supported the award by entering stories, and congratulate successful entrants.

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