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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TELL US WHAT YOU'VE WON OR DONE.
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 ME AN EMAIL: veronica@spamarrest.com

 

 

 

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. 

Tricia Veale

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.)
 

 

  
Janice Williams has won the 10th Kathleen Julia Bates memorial Short Story competition for her story, "Nuns Don't Play
  Soccer". 
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'

Marguerite Varday's 
Latest Book: 
WATERSHED YEARS

 
Marguerite Kisvardai (Varday)

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.

 

 

 

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

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.

Paula also had an article on female pirate Charlotte Badger published in Tasmanian Sagacity 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.

 

 

 

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.

 

 

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.

 

 

Lorraine McGuigan

Lorraine won First Prize in in the Poetry section of our 2011 Christmas Competition.

Some  poetry successes in 2011:
 
 * Poetrix 36
 * Famous Reporter # 42
 * Poetrix 37
 * Hecate 37.1
 * Social Alternatives Journal Vol. 30: 2
 * Blue Dog Vol. 9 No. 18
 * Island 126
 * Read poems at Pure Poetry Recital, Ballarat Art Gallery
 * 5 poems in Eureka Street Online Journal,  8 November '11
 * Poetry collection, 'Wings of the Same Bird' reviewed in Studio Journal No. 122.
 * Also reviewed by Sue Standford in POAM, the MPU newsletter

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


Poems in Free XpresSion, Friends of ABC Poets' Corner Newsletter, The Mozzie, Poetry Monash and Writer's Friend; short stories in The Australian Writer and Write Away.

 

 

 

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