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Prizes

2018 Peter Porter Poetry Prize winner

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Competitions and programs

John Hawke Morag Fraser Nicholas Wong Peter RoseJohn Hawke, Morag Fraser, ...

2014 Jolley Prize

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Competitions and programs

Jennifer Down was named the winner of the 2014 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize in front of a packed house at Melbourne Writers Festival on Saturday, 30 August. Ms Down, a Victorian writer, received $5,000 for her story entitled ‘Aokigahara’.

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2007 Porter Prize Shortlist

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March 2007, no. 289

Full-Bucket Moon
by Ross Clark

 

for Ted Kooser

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May 1985, no. 70

A tense moment in this household is when two of my children produce books to be read. Mercifully, the Mr Men and the more excruciating of the Golden books have been mysteriously mislaid; and we have gone beyond whiffy Miffy. It is a delight to return to Aranea and John Brown and the Midnight Cat, by Jenny Wagner and Ron Brooks; to look again at Possum Magic by Mem Fox and Julie Vivas. And a bit sad to realise that the great achievement of contemporary children’s fiction is not given enough serious recognition in the community at large.

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