Awards

Administered by the Society

THE AWARDS

The Abbie Clancy Award

This is a bursary of $1,000 to $1,500, awarded annually to a needy and deserving English honours student studying Australian Literature at the University of Sydney.

2009 Winner is Maisie Dubosarsky

The Alice Award

In conjunction with other state branches of the Society of Women Writers, this award is conferred every two years upon an Australian woman writer who, by her own written work, has made a distinguished and long-term contribution to Australian literature.

2008 Winner is Brenda Niall

Biennial Book Awards

Every second year, members are invited to submit books published over the previous two years. Separate awards are given for fiction, non-fiction, poetry and children’s books. Two Children’s Book Awards may be given – one for a book for younger readers, and one for an adolescent/young adult book.

Biennial Book Awards for 2009 are:

NON FICTION – Judge: Tony Moore

FIRST PRIZE: Carol Baxter – Breaking the Bank

Highly Commended  Leone Healy A Country Childhood

Commended  Beverley Earnshaw Houses and Heritage

Commended  Pamela O’Connor A Walk in my Footprints

Commended Bridget McKern Living the Journey

 

POETRY – Judge: Joanne Burns

FIRST PRIZE: Phyllis Perlstone – The Edge of Everything

Highly Commended Barbara Fisher Still Life, Other Life

Highly Commended Penelope Cottier The Glass Violin

 

JUNIOR FICTION – Judge: Tony Moore

FIRST PRIZE: Libby Hathorn – Georgiana: Woman of Flowers

Highly commended Felicity Pulman Willow for Weeping

Commended Libby Hathorn Letters to a Princess

Commended Susanne Gervay That’s why I Wrote This Song

Commended Wendy Fitzgerald Bollywood Dreams

Commended Libby Hathorn Fire Song

 

FICTION – Judge: Wilda Moxham

FIRST PRIZE: Diane Armstrong – Nocturne

Highly Commended  Pam Bayfield Silver Dreams

Highly Commended Cynthia Rowe Couscous Threads

 

Biennial Book Awards for 2007

FICTION

1st Prize: Worm in the Bud by June Duncan Owen

Highly Commended: Dragon Wind Rising by Frances Burke

Highly Commended: Forget Me Not by Susan Steggall

Commended: The Fragile Hotel by Robyn Ianssen

 

2007 AWARDS

NON-FICTION

1st Prize: Beulah Lowe and the Yolngu People by Dr Betsy Wearing

Highly Commended: Henbury The Early History of a Country Golf by Colleen O’Sullivan

Highly Commended: Crazy Over Whales – A Journey Through Mental Illness by Joy Thompson

POETRY

1st Prize: Tangible Shadows by Dawn Bruce

Commended: Empty Garden by Beverley George

Commended: Baubles, Bangles and Beads by Amelia Fielden

JUNIOR FICTION

1st Prize: Lilies For Love by Felicity Pulman

Highly Commended: Ants in My Dreadlocks by Cynthia Rowe

Commended: The Goats by Elizabeth Best

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