Congratulations to everyone who entered The Society’s Members Book Awards and National Writing Competition this year, especially to the following shortlisted authors and entries.
Winners, Highly Commended and Commended will be announced at our Gala Luncheon at The Women’s Club on 29 November 2024. Book here so you don’t miss the excitement!
Members Book Awards
FICTION
Sally Colin-James ♦ One Illumined Thread
Anne Maria Nicholson ♦ Poker Protocol
Judith O’Connor ♦ War is Not Suitable for Children
Pamela Rushby ♦ Those Girls
Susan Steggall ♦ To Carve Identity
NON-FICTION
Katia Ariel ♦ the swift dark tide
Gwen Bitti ♦ Between Two Worlds
Deborah Fitzgerald ♦ Her Sunburnt Country: The Extraordinary Literary Life of Dorothea Mackellar
Eva Rottenanger ♦ Going Solo. A Travel Memoir in Search of Meaning, Belonging and Identity
Sally Jane Smith ♦ Repacking for Greece: A Mediterranean Odyssey
POETRY
Gayelene Carbis ♦ I Have Decided to Remain Vertical
Anne Casey ♦ Some Days the Bird
Natalie Cooke ♦ Wrestling with Bees
P.S. Cottier ♦ Tuesday’s Child is Full
Denise O’Hagan ♦ Anamnesis
Paris Rosemont ♦ Banana Girl
CHILDREN & YOUNG ADULT
Libby Hathorn ♦ Mother Earth
Karen Hendriks ♦ Our Shellharbour
Pamela Rushby ♦ The Mud Puddlers
Julie Thorndyke ♦ Alice’s Shoe
National Writing Competition
FICTION
Anne Benjamin ♦ The Legacy
Paulette Gittins ♦ Kelp
Helen Lyne ♦ Unlocking Doors
Rebecca O’Brien ♦ Conversations with a Witch
Bronwyn Rodden ♦ Scone making
Coby Sullivan ♦ Fractured
NON-FICTION
Cindy Broadbent ♦ In Australia I Will
Melissa Bruce ♦ Blue-Ribbon Country
Anne Casey ♦ A Letter from the Colony
Anne Smith ♦ Kintsugi Personified
Kathy Prokhovnik ♦ Looking for Gladys Marks
Janet Upcher ♦ And One Stayed Home
POETRY
Anne Benjamin ♦ Bedazzled
Heather Cameron ♦ The Lie
Anne Carson ♦ In another time
Elanna Herbert ♦ Granite Falls
Vanessa Proctor ♦ Drakensburg Mountains
Joanne Ruppin ♦ Slaying by the Rules