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Competition Results

2008 : 2007 : 2006 : 2005



Look out for the first placed short story from 2007's competition, Hayley Katzen's 'Not Cricket', which has been included in Melbourne Books' new title Award Winning Australian Writing 2008.



2008 Results

Short Story Section

1st - Jennifer Mills (NT) - The capital of missing persons
2nd - Philip Mainwaring (Vic) - The Breath of Heaven
Commended - Simon Stuart (Vic) - piano
Commended - Susan McCreery (NSW) - Things in common
Shortlisted - Angela Meyer (Vic) - Mentioning Ben
Shortlisted - Carmel Lillis (Vic) - Ashamed
Shortlisted - David Gibb (SA) - The cheap shirt
Shortlisted - David McLaren (Vic) - 27
Shortlisted - Jenny Sinclair (Vic) - Jacaranda Blooming
Shortlisted - Susan McCreery (NSW) - Rose

Poetry Section

1st - Anne Elvey (Vic) - Christmas holidays at home
2nd - Ian Gibbins (SA) - turtledove
Commended - Derek Motion (NSW) - defiance of sitting
Commended - John Egan (NSW) - The Mariner
Shortlisted - Anne Elvey (Vic) - Cinders
Shortlisted - Anne Hollier Ruddy (Qld) - Villanelle for a patient
Shortlisted - Derek Motion (NSW) - tracing-paper
Shortlisted - EA Gleeson (Vic) - A short time to live
Shortlisted - EA Gleeson (Vic) - Collateral damage
Shortlisted - Holly Buschman (Qld) - Catfight
Shortlisted - Ian Gibbins (SA) - local knowledge
Shortlisted - Janine McGinness-Whyte (Vic) - garage sale
Shortlisted - Kevin Gillam (WA) - full-stopping the sky
Shortlisted - Kristen Roberts (ACT) - Amid winter
Shortlisted - Marian Spires (Vic) - Wedding day
Shortlisted - Nadine Piotrowicz (WA) - Coming home

Winners for the 2008 competition were announced at the launch of Issue 6 on Saturday Nov 8th 2008 at the Queen of Tarts cafe, Belgrave.

Download a full list of the winners and the judge's reports (75kb .pdf).



2007 Results

Short Story Section

1st prize - Hayley Katzen (NSW) - Not cricket
2nd prize - Ella Holcombe (Vic) - The Slide

Commended - Brooke McReynolds (Qld) - Dead Hearts in Paradise
Commended - Georgina Scillio (Vic) - She looked in vain for fruit that summer
Commended - Laura McIntosh (Vic) - The Favour

Finalist - David Gibb (SA) - The Crumbling of Ash
Finalist - Jennifer Mills (NT) - A Selfish Prayer
Finalist - Jenny Sinclair (Vic) - Put on your dancing shoes
Finalist - Melissa Ferguson (Vic) - Psychic Stoned

Poetry Section

1st prize - Carole Poustie (Vic) - The Irises
2nd prize - Nathan Curnow (Vic) - paparazzi on fire/hammer the flowers

Commended - Derek Motion (NSW) - june was first
Commended - Tracy Hughes (Qld) - The Roadrunner

Finalist - Barbara De Franceschi (NSW) - Homage in Cheese
Finalist - David Campbell (Vic) - Rendition
Finalist - Derek Motion (NSW) - a matter of seconds
Finalist - Dorothy Swoope (NSW) - Looking up
Finalist - Jennifer Langley-Kemp (WA) - early morning river
Finalist - Jennifer Mills (NT) - this amber land
Finalist - John Egan (NSW) - Race the Storm
Finalist - Phil Ilton (Vic) - Owed to an Ozzie Ern

Winners of the 2007 Page Seventeen Short Story and Poetry competition were announced at the launch of Issue 5 on 22 September at the Queen of Tarts cafe, Belgrave.

Congratulations to the winners and those whose entries were shortlisted and published in Issue 5. Thank you also to everyone who showed support through entering, and we look forward to reading even more entries next year, so look out for an entry form after March.

Download a full list of the winners and the judge's reports (38kb .pdf).

Buy a copy of Issue 5 so you can read them all.



2006 Results

Short Story Section

1st prize - The Memorist by David McLaren
2nd prize - The Bridge of Orcus by Stephen Davey

Commended - Lady Madonna by Anne Traynor
Commended - Ballarat Bitter by Ross Gray
Commended - Gaolbird by Ross Duffy

Poetry section

1st prize - Bathysphere by Stephen Davey
2nd prize - Punctuation by Bronwyn Blaiklock
Commended - Venom by Grace McQuilten
Commended - reflection by Pamela Cook

Short Listed - camera obscura - David McLaren
Short Listed - autoanniversaryairportautosexual - Derek Motion
Short Listed - When I was nine - Dianne Millett
Short Listed - Smoke Dreams - Eleanor Maloney
Short Listed - Rye Pier - Gertrude Gillan
Short Listed - The Round Pond - Stephen Davey

Winners of the 2006 Page Seventeen Short Story and Poetry competition were announced at the launch of Issue 4 on 18 November at the Queen of Tarts cafe, Belgrave.



2005 Results

Short Story Section

1st prize: Mikolai's Gift by Lisa Nankervis
2nd prize: The Jesus of Ants by Amanda le Bas de Plumetot

Commended: Kosciusko's in my Heart by Shirley Hotchkiss
Commended: The Exotic Other by Rosemary Abbott
Commended: Small Hands by Lisa Nankervis

Poetry section

1st prize: Beslan School #1 Sept 2004 by Marian Spires
2nd prize: HMAS Dechaineux 2003 by Nana Ollerenshaw

Commended: Chef by Larissa Davisson Farrell
Commended: Seizure by Nana Ollerenshaw

Page Seventeen/A Photo Affair cover art competition

1st prize: Abstract on a Rainy Day by Graeme Edwards

Download a full list of the winners and the judge's reports (70kb .pdf).


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