AWARDED
TITLE
WRITER
Winner
Can You Hear Me?
Catherine Padmore
Runner-up
Not Even Specks
Catherine Bateson
Highly Commended (in alphabetical order)
Language and Fire
Cynthia Troup
Water Baby
Poppea White
Commended (in alphabetical order)
There Isn’t Time
Hermina Burns
Leg of Lamb
Carmel Riordan
Shortlisted (in alphabetical order)
If You Don’t, I Can’t
Catherine Bell
Sing Me Home
Pauline Cleary
Coffee with Martina
Jean Flynn
How to Be a Good Asian
Nicky Zhang
St Patrick’s Day
Peter Kenneally
AWARDED
TITLE
WRITER
Winner
Fig
Stephanie Powell
Runner-up
love hate sex death
Gareth Morgan
Highly Commended (in alphabetical order)
Companion Planting
E.A. Gleeson
A Mug from Goodwill
Alexander Homoc
Good Gifts from Above
Richenda Rudman
Commended (in alphabetical order)
Under the Clothesline
Catherine Bateson
Williamstown Road
Hermina Burns
First kiss, 12 or 13
Anne M. Carson
fall
Jemma van Loenen
Five O’Clock Practice
Kim Waters
AWARDED
TITLE
WRITER
Winner
Vivace
Gihara Jayaneththi
Runner-up
Menarche
Sowmya Ghimire
Highly Commended (in alphabetical order)
Verity
Avani Malali
Perfect to Me
Ashmi Sarkar
Commended (in alphabetical order)
Running Out of Time
Angelica Pham
Daisy and the Oak Tree
Mahnoor Talpur
Shortlisted (in alphabetical order)
A Loving Universe
Anjali Bijukumar
The Secrets in the Stars
Gurleen Jhajj
The Field We Lay In
Momina Khan
Free Mandalay
Muskan Pant