Sydney writer, Richard Lunn has won the $2000 Age Short Story competition with his story ‘Tennis With My Father’. Lunn’s story was chosen from an astonishing 1647 entries.

Co-ordinator of the mammoth judging task was Laurie Clancy, a Melbourne writer and Chairman of the local PEN. Clancy read every one of the stories entered and with other PEN members produced a short list of 45 stories from which the winner was chosen by Clancy, Thea Astley and Age literary editor, Rod Usher.