2019
Fiction
- Winner: Kathy Prokhovnik A Day at the Beach
- Highly commended: Jean Flynn Forty
- Commended: Anna Bay The Tamarillo Tree
Non-Fiction
- Winner: Nicole Lenoir-Jourdan Frothing
- Highly commended: Susan Steggall Re-Carving an Identity
- Commended: Carmel Bendon The Gift of a Book
Poetry
- Winner: Joanne Ruppin Night Reunion
- Highly commended: Anne Carson What if the lake …
- Commended: Margaret Ruckert Unconformity
2017
Non-Fiction Essays and Articles
- First prize: Anni Webster An Appetite for Awe
- Second prize: Robyn Elliott Pilbara Boots
- Third prize: Megan Wallens WB Yeats and Yours Truly
- Highly commended: Carol Middleton You Are All Dreamers
- Highly commended: Judith O'Connor Slippery Side of the Street
- Highly commended: Joanne Ruppin Please Don't Tell
Short Story
- First prize: Fran Collings Paper Nautilus
- Second prize: Paulette Gittins Traumeri
- Third prize: Polly Jude Rewind
Poetry
- Equal first prize: Helen Thurloe Persistence in Three Languages
- Equal First prize: Joanne Ruppin Stille Nacht and Silent Night
- Highly commended: Susan Fealy The Night Before the Truck
- Highly commended: Shane McCauley Thomas Merton
2015 - Theme: Be Inspired by Giving Women a Voice
Non-Fiction Essays and Articles
- First prize: Pippa Kay Breathtaking
- Second prize: Carol Middleton Dreaming of Freedom
- Third prize: Pauline Harvey The Doctor's Wife
- Highly commended: Chystal Abidin When you travel alone through foreign cities as a young woman
- Commended: Nicola West The Fight
Short Story
- First prize: Michelle Reidy This Is How A Voice Sounds
- Second prize: Lynne Cook No Words For It
- Third prize: Erica Woolgar Waiting For Mare
- Highly commended: Judith O"Connor Run Rabbit Run
- Commended: Bridget Mckern Lady-In-Waiting
Poetry
- First prize: Cynthia Rowe Union Rep Ruby
- Second prize: Carolyn Alfonzetti Canary Song
- Third prize: Moira Kirkwood Flowering
- Highly commended: Gail Hennessy Finding The Words
- Commended: Colleen Keating In Search of Hildegard of Bingen
2013
Short Story
- First prize: Sarah Endacott Shock-Shit
- Second prize: Julie Chevalier An Honour that I"d thought not of
- Third prize: Claire Aman Wrangler
- Commended:
Julie Kearney Killing Him Softly
Suzanne Gaskell Beautiful Boys
Julie Chevalier Little Fires
Poetry
- First prize: Susan Fealy The Hope Stone
- Second prize: Dr Frances Olive At the Temple
- Third prize: Marilyn Peck From My Bed on Dry Winter Mornings
- Commended:
Gillian Hunt Heartland
Moira Kirkwood Moto (artist to Genius)
Ali Jane Smith Sestina After a Marriage
Lesley Walter In Memoriam (of Vera Newsom)
Winifred Weir Summer Is and Has Been
2012
Short Story
- First prize: Susan McCreery Beyond Walls
- Second prize: Meg Wallens Caretaker Li and My Sanity Patch
- Third prize: Heather Bird Marked
Poetry
- First prize: Winifred Weir We have one another now and again
- Second prize: Lesley Walter At the Crossing
- Third prize: Dr Penelope S Cottier A Brief History of Fun
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