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Ada Cambridge Prize Winners

The 2010 Ada Cambridge Prize

Winner:

Sally Nansen - Winter's Sleep

Runner Up

Lucia Nardo - Eighty Summers

Highly Commended:

Helen Bradwell - Losing Elvis

Commended;

Patsy Rea - Sugar Plum

Shortlisted and in the anthology:

Anna Brasier - No Relief

Vivien Owens - Memories of a Dragon

Helene Richards - Little Girl Lost

Anneliese Rosenmayer - Behind the Mask

Monika Schott - Disconnected

Ilka Tampke - Life Drawing

The 2009 Ada Cambridge Prize

Winners:
Jackie Kerin - 1984
Simonne Michelle-Wells - Broken Light

Highly Commended:
Anneliese Rosenmayer - The English Countryside in Winter

Commended:
Lucia Nardo - Hoping for Home

Shortlisted and in anthology:
Kate Amesbury - A Wee Bit o' Fish
Hugh Deacon - Back Then
Melissa Ferguson - Nearly a Dunny Girl
Kerry Lander - The Tail of a Friendship
Mary Burbidge - Passing Connections
Margaret Carmichael-Leonard - Perfumed Memories

You can read all of these stories in both the 2010 and 2009 anthology, Beyond Words: The Ada Cambridge Prize for Biographical Short Story Writing, available for purchase from the Williamstown branch of Hobsons Bay Libraries.