2025 Competition Results
KSP HORROR STORIES AWARDS 2025
(National Competition, 18+)
Judge: Ruth McIver
READ 2025 JUDGES' REPORT
KSP SPOOKY STORIES AWARDS 2025
(National Competition, under 18)
Judge: Fionna Cosgrove
READ 2025 JUDGES' REPORT (Teen Category)
READ 2025 JUDGES' REPORT (Youth Category)
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KSP SHORT FICTION AWARDS 2025
(National Competition)
Judge: Zoe Deleuil
Zoe Deleuil is a writer from Perth, Western Australia. Her novel, The Night Vilage, was shortlisted for the Hungerford Award and published by Fremantle Press in 2021. her current work in progress was awarded an Affirm Press Fellowship in 2025.
KSP POETRY AWARDS 2025
(National Competition)
Judge: Lakshmi Kanchi
Lakshmi Kanchi is an Indian-Australian poet on a mission to make poetry accessible. She is the Chair of WA Poets Inc., WA’s peak poetry body. Her debut collection is Lakesong (Centre for Stories, 2023). Her writing anatomises the complex links between language, culture, history, perception. She won the 2023 Ros Spencer Poetry Prize and 2021 Pocketry Prize, and presented LAND (WORD) JOURNEY, a visual poetry exhibition at MJAC. Her poem suite—Wayfinding, was featured at Fremantle Biennale's Sanctuary in November’25.
