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2021/22 Competition Results

Congratulations to all of KSP's annual competition winners, and thank you to all those who entered. Big thanks to the Shire of Mundaring, and Tabetha Rogers-Beggs of Little Black Dress Productions for sponsoring these awards.

SPOOKY STORY AWARDS 2022

(WA Competition)

Theme: Best Friends

Judge: Carolyn Wren

Carolyn is a Perth hills author of Romance and Suspense novels, who spent most of her working life in the mining industry.  When a story popped into her brain, she began writing in 2009 and entered a few contests, just for fun.  Much to her surprise, she won the Australian based Emerald Award for unpublished manuscripts, and one week later received a commendation from the International Daphne Du Maurier Awards for Excellence in Mystery/Suspense. This gave her the incentive to keep writing, and to pursue a publishing deal.   As at July 2021 Carolyn has 21 books, 7 first place trophies and 17 finalist certificates from contests all around the world.  Her primary Australian publisher is Gumnut Press with anthology stories through Serenity Press.

www.carolynwren.com
www.facebook.com/carolynwrenauthor

 

READ 2022 JUDGES' REPORT BY CAROLYN WREN

OPEN CATEGORY

1st Place: D. D. Line, 'Jimmy and Me'
2nd Place: Fionna Cosgrove, 'Alice'

3rd Place: Valerie Latimour, 'Freedom'

Shortlisted:

(in no particular order)

 

  1.  'The Scritch Under My Bed' by Scott-Patrick Mitchell

  2. 'Snatcher in the Fog' by B. Kay Spencer

  3. 'The Sandbar' by Chris Zanich

  4. 'A Friend in Need' by Chris Moss

  5. 'Sleepover' by C Aric Hanley

  6. 'Believe' by Barbara Gurney

  7. 'In the Beach House' by Emelia Beecraft

  8. 'The Man in the Mirror' and 'Prince of Darkness' by Jenny Lynch

  9. 'Chook' by Jacqueline Warner

  10. 'The Young Ghosts’ Guide to Making Friends ' by Louise Burlinson

  11. 'Oak Leaves and Whiskey' by Mark Townsend

  12. 'While She Sleeps' and 'Et Tu' by Caroline Michell

  13. 'Slightly Off Script' and 'Diablo De Plata' by Laila Miller

  14. 'River Wet Letters' by Jewel Swe

YOUTH CATEGORY WA

1st Place: Lara Simpson, 'Right There'
2nd Place: Daniel Korlat, 'Bob's Watch'

3rd Place: Kalopsia, 'Best Friends Forever'
Commended: Mia Splatt, 'The Spooky Sleepover'

Shire of Mundaring Prize: Ayla Smyth, 'Sacrifice'

YOUTH CATEGORY INTERSTATE

1st Place: E.J Sullivan, 'Bahayu'
2nd Place: R. Abbott, 'Til Death Do Us Part'

3rd Place: Aditya Paul, 'Katy'

Commended: Essie Li, 'Room 21'
Commended: Molly Hoogland, 'My John'

KSP POETRY AWARDS 2022

(National Competition)

Judge: Natalie D-Napoleon

Natalie Damjanovich-Napoleon (D-Napoleon) is a poet and songwriter. Her poetry and creative non-fiction has appeared in The Australian (Review), Writer’s Digest (US), Cordite, and Meanjin. She has won both the Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize and the KSP Poetry Prize. Ginninderra Press released her debut poetry collection First Blood in 2019. Natalie recently completed a collection on matrescence and the silencing of women's voices. She is currently teaching writing at ECU while completing a PhD on erasure poetry and historic amnesia.

READ 2022 JUDGES' REPORT

OPEN CATEGORY WINNERS

 

1st Place: 'Swapping One Dysfunctional Family for Another' by Angela Costi, VIC
2nd Place: 'Body and Soul' by Jan Napier, WA
Highly Commended: 'Scar Tissue' by Claire Hampson, NSW
Highly Commended: 'Segments of Grief' by Claire Reberger, NSW
Commended: 'Things that Mooch' by Rhian Healy, WA
Commended: 'I Start to Tell You' by Jan Napier, WA
Commended: 'Hold, Release' by Scott-Patrick Mitchell, WA

Annette Cameron Encouragement Award for an Unpublished WA Poet
 

1st Place: 'The Third Trimester' by Ella Tan, WA
Highly Commended: 'Calling Hecate' by Jo Hanna, WA
Commended: 'Everyday Alchemy' by Jennifer Catalano, WA

YOUTH CATEGORY WINNERS

1st Place: 'Drowning in Front of a White Man' by Sharon Zhang, VIC, 16 years
2nd Place: 'Four' by Jasmine Cullen, WA, 15 years
Highly commended: 'Alphabet of Love' by  Madeleine Zeng, NSW, 14 years
Highly Commended: 'Secrets' by Ellie Yang, NSW, 10 years
Commended: 'Nothing Oriental' by Isabel Gong, NSW, 15 years
Commended: 'Paradise Lost' by Mehvish Mehboob, WA, 17 Years
Commended: 'At the Blank Wall a Turning Point' by Zara Pereira, WA, 11 Years
Commended: 'Death of a Procrastinator' by Guo Ru, NSW, 13 years

Mundaring National Encouragement Award for a Poet Under 14 Years: 'The Library' by Willow Dunlop, NSW, 11 years
Mundaring National Encouragement Award for a Poet under 14 years - Highly Commended: 'Autumn' by Eliza Sharry, VIC, 9 years

KSP SHORT FICTION AWARDS 2022

(National Competition)

Judge: Bindy Pritchard

Bindy Pritchard is a writer and mentor whose fiction has appeared in various anthologies and literary journals such as Westerly, Kill Your Darlings and Review of Australian Fiction. Her debut collection Fabulous Lives (published by Margaret River Press) was shortlisted for the WA Premier’s Book Awards in 2019. In 2021 she was selected as a KSP Emerging Writer-in-Residence to work on her second collection of stories.  

READ 2022 JUDGES' REPORT

 

OPEN CATEGORY WINNERS

1st Place: 'The Accomplice' by Kit Scriven, VIC
2nd Place: 'Caretaker' by Hannah Jones, QLD
Highly Commended: 'An Unopened Life' by Kit Scriven, VIC
Highly Commended: 'Bozo' by Rachel White, VIC
Commended: 'Rheta's Resolution' by Bronwyn Boehm, NSW
Commended: 'Purity' by Rita Tognini, WA
Highly Commended: '100% Customer Satisfaction Guarantee' by Alexandra Svoboda, VIC

YOUTH CATEGORY WINNERS

1st Place: 'The Fall of Robespierre' by Dominique To, WA, 14 years
2nd Place: 'Monkshood Murders' by Qian Fu, VIC, 12 years

Highly Commended: 'Baby Shoes, Half Price Off' by McKayla Tan, NSW, 15 years
Highly Commended: 'Wadjemup Island' by Kaia Gooch, WA, 13 years
Commended: 'The Beast of Adventure World' by Clem Chapman, WA, 10 years
Commended: 'Dealing with The Dempsey's
' by Aditya Paul, NSW, 11 years
Commended:
 'My Mother's Cooking' by Amber Zhao, QLD, 11 years
Mundaring National Encouragement Award for a Writer Under 14 Years: 'The View From Here' by Isla Barker, WA, 11 years

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