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Award Winning Australian Writing 2011
The Best Winning Writing from Short Story & Poetry Competitions Nationally

Edited by Adolfo Aranjuez

• Paperback 
• 336 pages
  ISBN: 9781877096631

  $29.95

The fourth edition of AWAW sees the Award Winning series expanding, being the first to include poetry. It showcases over forty competitions, including The Adelaide Review / University of Adelaide Creative Writing Program Short Fiction Competition, the Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize, the Banjo Paterson Writing Awards, the Australian Book Review Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize, the Rolf Boldrewood Literary Awards and the Blake Poetry Prize. (View the full list of contributors and competitions.)

"Here is a rare chance to see a whole year’s cohort of winning stories in one collection. Use it as inspiration, or a tool for seeing trends and possibilities in writing."

— from the Foreword by Delia Falconer

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Reviews

"Many literary competitions and awards in Australia do not have a wide audience beyond the small, often closed communities within which the competition is run. Award Winning Australian Writing, however, brings together the winning entries and gives them a potentially broader platform. And many of these emerging writers clearly deserve a wider audience."
— Matthew Lamb, The Australian (read full review)

"Overall this is a collection with much to offer and a must read for those interested in entering Australia’s array of literary competitions."
— Irma Gold, Overland (read full review)
 
"Many winning stories are not widely published … The book is a chance for general readers to value these winners."
— Lorien Kaye, The Age

"The variety and quality make for a splendid tribute to the health of Australian creative writing."
— William Charles, The Melbourne Review