Past winning stories
Read the work of previous Young Writers and Encouragement Award winners and some of the Highly Commended stories dating back to the first Young Writers Award in 1988.
[All stories are in pdf format 
and open in a new window.]
2011 winning story: Freedom Mangoes by Daniel Foskey
2011 Encouragement Award winner: Rips by Deanna Antoniolli
2011 Highly Commended: The Anatomist by Jacqueline Allen Rodgers
2011 Highly Commended: Of Orange Trees and Peach Cake by Megan Gartside
2011 Highly Commended: Sleeping Patterns by Jarryd Luke
2011 Highly Commended: Black and white by Stephanie Gall
2010 winning story (The road to the river by Sarah Boothroyd)
2010 Encouragement Award story (Hobbe's Samoyed Acquisition by Helen Brake)
2010 Highly Commended story (No one ever taught me how to shave by Gabriel Foley)
2010 Highly Commended story (Fill the Void by Catherine Kiv)
2009 winning story (The lunar coast by Megan McGrath) was published in Issue 28 Griffith REVIEW Still the lucky country? A collection of essays about Australia.
2009 Encouragement Award story (What Sort of Heroine by Liam O'Brien) [177 kb]
2008 winning story (The Life of Brian (or lack thereof) by Maree Spratt ) [144 kb]
2008 Encouragement Award story (My Mechanical Heart by Kathleen Noud) [120 kb]
2007 winning story (The Broom Closet by Joel Glazebrook) [123 kb] This story contains themes that may cause distress to some people.
2007 Encouragement Award story (Fuel for Loneliness by Megan McGrath) [119 kb]
2006 winning story (Thoughts while night travelling by James Halford) [128 kb]
2006 Encouragement Award story (Simon Says by Benjamin Law) [139 kb]
2005 winning story (Nom de guerre by Christopher Boulton) [116 kb]
2005 Encouragement Award story (A glass jar filled by Chloe Evans) [108 kb]
2004 winning story (Adhan by Talim Arab) [130 kb]
2004 Encouragement Award story (Only Dogs and I by Christopher Boulton) [129 kb]
2003 winning story (When I was Rising and Falling in the Sea by Chris Somerville) [119 kb]
2003 Encouragement Award story (Swallow the Air by Tara June Winch) [104 kb]
2002 winning story (Sometimes Scary by Rachel Rutter) [105 kb]
2002 Encouragement Award story (The Quiet Death of the Day by Chris Currie) [114 kb]
2001 winning story (Love by Alasdair Duncan) Excerpt only [96 kb]
2001 Encouragement Award story (The Mango Tree by Romy Ash) [110 kb]
2000 winning story (Motorbike Man by Rhianna Boyle) [114 kb]
2000 runner up (St Nick by Luise Hoffmann) [130 kb]
1999 winning story (Eight Parts of Anka by Rebekah Scott) [125 kb]
1999 runner up (Deep Waters Seek Order by Carmen Leigh Keates) [112 kb]
1998 winning story (The contemplators by Christopher John Boulton) [117 kb]
1998 runner up (Grasshoppers by Maureen Donahoe) [116 kb]
Help with downloading pdfs
