We are proud to announce the shortlisted participants of the Alice Sinclair Writing Competition.
This year we had a record 208 entries: 88 poetry and 120 stories.
Congratulations to the shortlisted authors, and thank you to everyone who entered the competition!
The names of the winners and the entries that will enter the anthology will be announced on 12 November. More details here.
Category A — Poetry
Agi Dobson, Epiphany
Amy Purton-Long, Night Features (forgive me)
Anna Rachel, Pomegranate
David Kelly, Ashmore Prophets
Gideon McDonald, Between the Speckled Lights
Ian Reid, The Great Seal
Irina Frolova, To the Sun
Janice Williams, Boy with a Trumpet
Jasmyne Ramos, Winter High
Kate Maxwell, Let There be a Firmament
Kathryn Fry, Antidote
Kathryn Fry, The Old Sand Mining Site
Kit Scriven, You Woman of Scraps
Pippa Kay, Miasma
Rees Campbell, Eleven Steps
Category B — Short Story
Allan Nicholls, The Sign
Andrew Nest, Breakout
Anne Andrews, Grandad
Black Crow Walking, Rapunzel and the Awakening
Bronwyn MacRitchie, Break In
Christine Johnson, Words from Beyond
Edith Speers, The Flying Fortuna Sister
George Graves, The Track
Gurgica Georgina Chakar, Levisia
Kim Michelle Ross, Reckoning
Kylie Moppert, Not Like Him
Marc Cannella, Distant Fires
Marie Heitz, The Short Story
Ned Stephenson, Son of Prometheus
Peter Court, Mouse Tail
Roslyn Varley, Ghosts
Sarah Bennett, The Parts that Hurt
Sinead Reilly, R&R
Thomas Williamson, The Old Time Swing
Lake Macquarie Branch, Fellowship of Australian Writers 