The All Poetry Competition - 2008
(please note this is a separate competition from the Shoalhaven Literary Award)

Results for the All Poetry Competition 2008


First: Jane Baker for The Fragile People

Second: Sandra Lynn James for Telling Mum

HC: Valerie Chubb for Once In Brittany
HC: Frank Prem for Of Her Song

Commended: Gail Hennessey for The Essay
Commended: Susan McCreery for The Spider Wasp

Shortlisted were:

• Juliana Mackin for Letting Go
• Cynthia Rowe for Shoes Empty
• Faie Dana Watson for Minute To Midnight
• Patricia White for A=415
• Gail Hennessey for The Far Side of the Ocean Baths
• John Carey for The Wood From the Trees

All these and a further twenty –five poems have received comment.

Congratulations. These poems needed only a little tinkering around the edges and can be sent out again, where appropriate, as they remain unpublished in any form by us. (Winners of cash prizes still have the option of publication in some literary magazines.)

The best chance for improving your work comes from reading as much modern poetry as you can find in your library. Ask for the series:

The Best Australian Poetry 2003-4-5-6-7 (UQP) and The Best Australian Poems 2003-4-5-6-7 (Black Inc.) Ask for Blue Dog, Heat, Southerly, Meanjin and anything else suggested by your librarian… or buy one.

Another tip is: stick to the rules of the competition and edit your work for typos, omissions and spelling mistakes. Yes, they matter in the final countdown.

Most of all, stay enthusiastic.

We enjoyed, as always, the reading of your poems. We look for innovation and difference in imagery, language and subject.

Keep writing and reading.

The Kitchen Table Poets, Shoalhaven
PO Box 3268 North Nowra 2541
 

The 2008 Shoalhaven Literary Award for Poetry has now closed. 

The winner will be contacted by telephone after September 20, 2008.  All other prize winners will be contacted by email or snail mail after this date.  Details of the winners and the judge's report will be posted on this site.

Thank you to all who have entered and GOOD LUCK!

The 2009 Shoalhaven Literary Award will be for short stories.

The One Act Play Competition 2007 has been finalised and the results are below. 

First Prize

S M Braint of Ashburton Victoria for her entry "Barnacles"

Second Prizes (in no particular order)

• Angela Pritchard of Attadale West Australia for her entry
  "Affectionately Amanda"
• Peter Hanbury of Alstonville New South Wales for his entry
  "Daddy's Girl"
• Shannyn Campbell of Berkeley New South Wales for her entry
  "I hear dead people.  They're always complaining"

For all those who entered here is the judge's report on all the entries with details on the winning ones.

FAW Shoalhaven hopes that these plays will form an evening's entertainment in Nowra during 2008.  Further details will be given as matters progress.  We also plan to continue with her newest literary competition running it biannually.  Details of the 2009 award will be given on this site.  Many thanks to all who took part.