Award Winning Australian Writing 2014

My hope is that readers - and reviewers - will discover and celebrate these pieces for their potency, poignancy, political clour, and their comedy... This is writing that will confront, thrill, surprise and haunt you. As a collection, this book offers us an exciting avenue into contemporary Australian writing. - Jo Langdon Adrien Abbott PrizeAlan Marshall Short Story AwardBayside Writing CompetitionBooranga PrizeBundaberg Writers' Club Short Story CompetitionC. J. Dennis Literary AwardsCastaways Poetry PrizeCastlemaine Poetry PrizeCity of Rockingham Short Fiction AwardsE. J. Brady Short Story CompetitionElyne Mitchell Rural Women's Writing AwardEyre Writers' AwardsFAW Angelo B. Natoli Short Story AwardFAW Mornington Peninsula PrizeFAW NSW Inc. Marjorie Barnard AwardFAW WA Stuart-Hadow Short Story CompetitionGeelong Writers CompetitionGrace Marion Wilson AwardsGwen Harwood Poetry PrizeHal Porter Short Story CompetitionJohn Marsden Prize for Young Australian WritersJohn O'Brien Festival Writing CompetitionKaren W. Treanor Poetry AwardsMalthouse Theatre Excellence in Creative Arts AwardsMargaret River Short Story CompetitionMelaleuca Blue Life Writing CompetitionMelbourne Shakespeare Society Sonnet CompetitionMelton Short Story CompetitionMichael Thwaites Poetry AwardMonash University Undergraduate Prize for Creative WritingNew England Thunderbolt Prize for Crime WritingNillumbik Ekphrasis Poetry AwardNow and Then Literature PrizeOverland Victoria University Short Story PrizePeter Cowan Writers' Centre 600 Short Story CompetitionPoetry in Film FestivalQUT Creative Writing PrizeRachel Funari Prize for FictionRhonda Jankovic Poetry AwardRolf Boldrewood Literary AwardsSlow Canoe Readings Short Narrative CompetitionSociety of Women Writers NSW National Poetry CompetitionTasmanian Writers' PrizeThe Age Short Story CompetitionUTS Writing PrizeVerge Annual Prize for FictionWaterline Writing CompetitionWrite Now! YPRL Short Story CompetitionZineWest Competition