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May
Announcing the Ada Cambridge Prose and Poetry shortlisted entrants
We are excited to announce the shortlisted entrants for the Ada Cambridge Prose and Poetry Writing Prizes 2020!
Thank you to our wonderful readers and judges who read over 104 poems and 60 stories to come up with the final shortlists.
The Ada winners will be announced online in late June.
Congratulations to the shortlisted writers!
The Ada Cambridge Biographical Prose Shortlist (11 entries)
| Writer | Story |
| Alan Hewitt | Major Rossi’s Parole |
| Jean Flynn | Risk Assessment |
| Rosie Beaumont | Gothic Kangaroo |
| Binh Pham | An Illiterate Entrepreneur |
| Suzi Mezei | Sapling |
| Anne Hotta | The Visitor |
| Jean Thornton | Ah Chin |
| Rob Benson | My Brother Tom |
| Debi Hamilton | Still Life with Surgeon |
| Richenda Rudman | 55 Hanbury Street |
| Alison Lloyd | The Red Button |
The Ada Cambridge Poetry Shortlist
| Writer | Poem |
| Yvonne Adami | Barwon Morning |
| Elizabeth Beaton | Macbeth Country |
| John Bartlett | Survival |
| Helen Bradwell | Hermione, roused |
| Carla de Goede | Cats |
| Danny Fahey | Extinction |
| Rachel Flynn | New World Order |
| Ray Liversidge | On hearing the news she has won the Pulitzer prize, Elizabeth Bishop celebrates by consuming not one but two Oreos |
| Suzi Mezei | Expeditions |
| Mathew Wenham | Old Man in a Derelict Factory |
