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Congratulations to the prizewinners and all the shortlisted authors selected by the judges
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Congratulations to all the finalists listed here in alphabetical order by surname: |
Asheg
Chris Michael Brianna Dominic Melisabeth Karin Patrick Jane Josh Mei-Ling Angus Christine Debi Llewellyn Alison KM Ruth Andrea Dan Nikki Nikki Katie Kali Peter Melanie Romany Joseph William Robert Divya Karen Jodie Ruth |
Brom
Brophy Buckley Bullen Carew Cooper Fell Costenoble Cullen Downing Dubrau Gaunt Grace Hamilton Horgan Kelly Rees Macaulay Macleod McLeod McWatters McWatters Mills Napier Newall Rees Rzechowicz Sexton Stanforth Titterton Venkataraman Whitelaw Woodward Wyer |
Contestant One - Vladimir Giger
Anne Frank Evidence Abstracted Within Picasso The Writer of Funny Stories How to Cure a Cat's Anxiety The Great Wave at Kanagawa The Weight of Affairs Hard Rubbish Seacliff Bridge The Names of Things The Woodcutter Wild Turkey The Other James The Blink Response My Father Looked Surprised Hilary The Elm Plunging Silver Axel and the Apricots Platypus Please Read This Before Posting Onze Heures Moins Dix The Yellow Wasp Spirit of the Free Fish Out of Water A Silver House Enclosures Lucas Red Like Dirt The Remains A Bus Ride With Mr Briggs Mary-Kate's First Kiss |
Northcote, Vic
Mt Coolum, Qld Moama, NSW Waurn Ponds, Vic Manly, NSW Pakenham, Vic Beaumaris, Vic Brunkerville, NSW Albury, NSW Wollongong, NSW Berowra Heights, NSW Footscray, Vic Carlton, Vic Wolli Creek, NSW Newcastle, NSW Kingston, ACT Boggabri, NSW New Farm, Qld Cooks Hill, NSW Terrigal, NSW Terrigal, NSW Doubleview, WA Upper Brookfield, Qld Sydney, NSW Finniss, SA Duffy, ACT Mont Albert, Vic Northcote, Vic Eleebana, NSW Redfern, NSW Newcastle, NSW Stafford, Qld Campbelltown, NSW |
2017 Judges
Thank you to Newcastle City Council who provided the funding for the judges of the Newcastle Short Story Award 2017
Peter Goldsworthy has won literary awards across a wide range of genres. His 1995 novel Wish was recently rereleased in the Text Australian Classics series, and his 1989 novel Maestro as an Angus & Robertson Australian Classic. His most recent collection of short stories, Gravel, was short-listed for the 2010 Australian Literature Society Gold Medal.
Maria Takolander was the winner of the inaugural Australian Book Review Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize, and her stories have been widely published nationally and internationally. Her short-story collection The Double (Text, 2013) was supported by a $25,000 Australia Council grant, was a finalist for the 2015 $30,000 Melbourne Prize for Literature’s ‘Best Writing Award,’ and was named one of the year’s best books by various forums including The Australian. She is also the author of two full-length collections of poetry, The End of the World (Giramondo, 2014), which was reviewed in the Los Angeles Review of Books, and Ghostly Subjects (Salt 2009), which was shortlisted for a Queensland Premier’s Prize. She is currently finishing a novel for Text, funded by a $40,000 Australia Council grant. She is an Associate Professor at Deakin University in Geelong, Victoria.
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NSSA Prizes
First Prize $3000
Awarded by: Second Prize $1500
Awarded by: Third Prize $500
travel voucher anywhere within Australia Awarded by: 3 Highly Commended Awards:
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5 Local awards
only NSSA entrants living in the Hunter Region are eligible for these awards (see comp conditions)
only NSSA entrants living in the Hunter Region are eligible for these awards (see comp conditions)
1 overnight stay in a harbourview room including breakfastHunter Valley Wine Selection
A case of wine from Tamburlaine Organic wines
$100 cellar door voucher from Tulloch wines A trio of wines from Peppertree Wines |
Family pass Whale Watching Cruise
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