Page created: 3 April, 2005
Last amended: 4 February, 2006

The Write Stuff Literary Competitions 2005

Category A The Write Stuff Poetry Competition

This section was for a poem up to 200 lines in length.
The judge for the poetry competition for 2005 was Stephen Edgar, recipient of the inaugural Australian Book Review prize.

WINNERS: POETRY SECTION

• 1st PRIZE: "Headless Portrait of a Pregnant Woman" by Esther Ottaway (Tasmania)
• 2nd PRIZE: "To Set Out on a Journey" by Rebecca Edwards (Queensland)
• Highly commended: "A Van Diemen's Land Inheritance" by Graeme Hetherington (Australian poet now living in the Czech Republic)
  Also highly commended: "Dementia Ward" by Rebecca Edwards (Queensland)
• Judge's report (Stephen Edgar)

Category B The Write Stuff Short Story Competition

This section was for a short story of 5,000 to 10,000 words (i.e no fewer than 5,000 and no more than 10,000 words). The judge once again is Giles Hugo, journalist, writer and co-editor of The Write Stuff.

WINNERS: SHORT STORY SECTION
Full details in the short story judge's report (Giles Hugo)

• 1st PRIZE:
  "Saturn Return", by EJ Shu (Victoria)
• 2nd PRIZE
  "The Automated Man", by Dov Spinks (South Australia)
• Highly commended:
  Fiji – Jon Easton (New South Wales).
  Alaska and Antarctica – Jessie Borrell (Victoria).
• Commended:
  The Garden Path – Jennifer Compton (New South Wales).
  Tutti e Tre – Kate Holden (Victoria).
  Full details in the short story judge's report (Giles Hugo)

NOTES:

An announcement about any future competition will be made on North of the Latte Line and on the home page of this site, probably in March 2006. There will definitely be a short story competition for 2006, for a long short story, which must be between 5,000 and 10,000 words in length. Regards, Anne Kellas, coeditor, The Write Stuff.

The phrase, The Write Stuff as used above refers to the web journal edited by Giles Hugo and Anne Kellas originally established at the University of Tasmania in 1995 and now independently hosted at http://www.the-write-stuff.com.au (After The Write Stuff web journal’s inaugural competitions last year, the Victorian Government Department of Communities held its own competition by the same name for young people, but the two competitions are not related in any way.)