Heartiest congratulations to everyone who submitted entries to The Society’s Members Book Awards and National Writing Competition this year!
Here are the results, as announced at our Gala Luncheon on 29 November 2024. For more information and judges’ reports, please visit our other website pages … Members Book Awards and National Writing Competition.
Members Book Awards
FICTION – judged by Marcelle Freiman
Winner – Sally Colin-James ♦ One Illumined Thread
Highly commended – Anne Maria Nicholson ♦ Poker Protocol
Highly commended - Susan Steggall ♦ To Carve Identity
Commended - Pamela Rushby ♦ Those Girls
NON-FICTION – judged by Carmel Bendon
Joint Winner - Katia Ariel ♦ the swift dark tide
Joint Winner - Deborah Fitzgerald ♦ Her Sunburnt Country: The Extraordinary Literary Life of Dorothea Mackellar
Highly commended - Gwen Bitti ♦ Between Two Worlds
POETRY – judged by Magdalena Ball
Winner - Natalie Cooke ♦ Wrestling with Bees
Highly commended - Gayelene Carbis ♦ I Have Decided to Remain Vertical
Highly commended - Denise O’Hagan ♦ Anamnesis
Commended - Anne Casey ♦ Some Days the Bird
CHILDREN & YOUNG ADULT – judged by Cathie Tasker
Winner - Pamela Rushby ♦ The Mud Puddlers
Highly commended - Julie Thorndyke ♦ Alice’s Shoe
Commended - Karen Hendriks ♦ Our Shellharbour
National Writing Competition
FICTION – judged by Margaret Wick, sponsored by Susan Walsh
Winner – Helen Lyne ♦ Unlocking Doors
Highly commended – Bronwyn Rodden ♦ Scone making
Commended – Coby Sullivan ♦ Fractured
NON-FICTION – judged by Teresa Petersen, sponsored by Shirley Randell AO
Winner – Melissa Bruce ♦ Blue-Ribbon Country
Highly commended – Cindy Broadbent ♦ In Australia I will…
Commended – Anne Smith ♦ Kintsugi Personified
POETRY – judged by Rosemary Huisman
Winner – Heather Cameron ♦ The Lie
Highly commended – Elanna Herbert ♦ Granite Falls
Commended – Joanne Ruppin ♦ Slaying by the Rules