Last updated 01/05/2013
MEMBERS' RECENT ACHIEVEMENTS
See also Competition Results for Members who are winners in our Christmas Competition and our Biennial Literary Competition.
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Please send all information to: Veronica Schwarz
If
you're not on this page, it's 'cause you haven't told me about your successes. SEND
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Janet Howie |
Janet Howie
was awarded First Prize for a haiku in the Free Xpression 2013
Competition, Haiku Section. There were well over 3000 haiku
submitted.
Tricia Veale was Commended in the Free Verse Poetry Section for her poem Star Gazing.
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Dulcie Stone
Dulcie's book, 'Child With Doll' is now an ebook. She went to the award ceremony of The Veteran Community 50th Short Story Writing and Art Competition, and won 2 prizes.
a) First prize for story writing - True Life
Experience.
b) The Legacy Novice Award for a First
Year Entrant. (Dulcie says: When they realised my age they found it
quite amusing.)
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Janice Williams
has won the 10th Kathleen Julia Bates memorial Short Story competition for
her story, "Nuns Don't Play Soccer". |
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Judith Green
recently received a Commended in the Trudy
Graham - Julie Lewis Literary Award for Prose conducted by the Peter Cowan
Writers' Centre for her story 'Small in Stature'. It will be
published in their e-zine too.
She also won 1st Prize In the 2012 Kathryn Purnell Poetry Competition for her poem: 'Comfort Zones' |
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Marguerite
Varday's
Marguerite's latest book Watershed Years is a novella based on the lives of people on the famous Snowy Mountains Scheme. It's anecdotal, vivid and moving and directs attention to an important place and time in Australia's history. There's also a sinister stranger and a murder mystery. Congratulations Marguerite. The book is available from Marguerite for $22.
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Errol Broome
Errol Broome’s picture book Song of the Dove, illustrated by Sonia Kretschmar, was recently listed in the top 100 new publications in the 4th CJ Picture Book Awards for international picture books. Two other Australian picture books are listed. The one hundred finalists are on exhibition in Korea. To find out more about the wonderful children's books
that Errol has written, go to her website: www.errolbroome.com.au |
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Paula Wilson
Paula's short story The Watchers was commended in The Peter Cowan 600 Short Story Competition. It will also be published in the Peter Cowan Writers Centre e-magazine.
Her short story “Maniac” was awarded second place in
the Gum Leaves fiction competition. It has also been published on their
website http://scribbligum.com/gum_leaves.html |
Rebecca Maxwell Rebecca’s poem Eyebrow Thoughts was chosen by the judge in Poetica Christi Press’s 2011 competition for inclusion in the anthology Taking Flight.
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Maree Silver
Maree’s poem Flight of Fancy was chosen by the judge in Poetica Christi Press’s 2011 competition for inclusion in the anthology Taking Flight.
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Tricia Veale
Tricia Veale
has had two poems published in Tamba
magazine and two poems in Free
XpresSion magazine. In the National Water Week
2011River Yarns Writing Competition, she was Highly Commended for the
poem Reflections. Tricia's review of the new UK
textbook "Essentials of Veterinary Parasitology" was published
in the Australian Veterinary Journal. Volume 89
No 11. An article on Barbers Pole Worms appeared in the Weekly Times. Issue # 7262. Her poem was
Commended in the SWW Christmas Competition.
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Lorraine McGuigan
Lorraine won First Prize in in the Poetry section of our 2011 Christmas Competition. Some poetry successes in 2011: |
Meryl Brown Tobin
Meryl's recent achievements include:
Highly Commended for Poetry in Waterline Writing Competition
2011; She has also had poems published in Writer's Friend and The
Write Angle
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