Results
Competition Results
2009 : 2008 : 2007 : 2006 : 2005
Melbourne Books have selected Jennifer Mills’ 2008 page seventeen first placed short story ‘The capital of missing persons’ for inclusion in Award Winning Australian Writing 2009. This is the second year in a row that the wining page seventeen story has been selected.
2009 Competition Results
Short Story Section
| 1st | Alexis Hailstones (Qld) – Winter’s End |
| 2nd | Samuel Rutter (Vic) – Burrows, Nests and Caves |
| Commended | Ellen McKechnie (Vic) – Marble |
| Commended | Lois Murphy (Vic) – Shifts |
| Shortlisted | Alan Cornell (Vic) – The Lodger |
| Shortlisted | Amy McKernan (Vic) – The Jigsaw Girl |
| Shortlisted | David Gibb (SA) – Other People’s Fathers |
| Shortlisted | David McLaren (Vic) – a tightness that does not turn |
| Shortlisted | Gabrielle Bridges (Vic) – Hey Guru, Nothing Doing |
| Shortlisted | Lisa Fitzpatrick (NSW) – Memories of a Friend |
Poetry Section
| 1st | Chloe Wilson (Vic) – Black Swans |
| 2nd | Ashley Capes (Vic) – botanic |
| Commended | Christina McCallum (Vic) – Bouquet |
| Commended | Virginia Danahay (Vic) – Morning Light |
| Shortlisted | Amanda Anastasi (Vic) – City Loop Train |
| Shortlisted | Anne Hollier Ruddy (Qld) – New Day |
| Shortlisted | Anne M Carson (Vic) – Bovine North South Tendency |
| Shortlisted | Denise Shakespeare (Vic) – Popeye |
| Shortlisted | Gemma White (Vic) – The Night Does Not Creep |
| Shortlisted | Janine McGinness-Whyte (Vic) – The truth and other small fictions |
| Shortlisted | Julia Wakefield (SA) – God’s Eye View |
| Shortlisted | Julia Wakefield (SA) – Shoreline |
Full judges reports can be downloaded here (PDF)
2009 page seventeen Cover Image Compeition Results
Winner - Vicki Grieves (NSW) for ‘Deep Stillness’
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).
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