2024/25 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 2024
(National Competition)
Judge: Brooke Dunnell
Brooke Dunnell is a Boorloo/Perth-based fiction writer, manuscript assessor, creative writing mentor and workshop facilitator. Her short fiction has been published in journals and anthologies including Best Australian Stories, Meanjin, Westerly, The Big Issue fiction edition, New Australian Fiction 2021 and New Australian Stories 2. Her collection of short stories, Female(s and) Dogs, was shortlisted for the Carmel Bird Digital Literary Award in 2020 and her unpublished manuscript The Glass House won the Fogarty Literary Award in 2021. Brooke has been a judge for a range of writing competitions, including the Peter Carey Short Story Award, the City of Armadale Writers Award, the John Gavin Writing Competition, the WA Premier's Book Awards and the Peter Cowan Writers Centre 600-word Story Award. Brooke was a recipient of a Westerly Mid-Career Fellowship in 2023 and her latest novel, The Glass House, was released in April 2024 by Fremantle Press.
KSP POETRY AWARDS 2024
(National Competition)
Judge: Scott-Patrick Mitchell
Scott-Patrick Mitchell was the recipient of the 2022 Red Room Poetry Fellowship and the 2023 XYZ Prize for Innovation in Spoken Word. In 2024, Mitchell was Highly Commended in The Blake Poetry Prize. Their debut poetry collection Clean (Upswell Publishing, 2022) was shortlisted for The Prime Minister’s Literary Awards, The WA Premier’s Book Awards and The Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards.
