Booranga Literary Prizes: Winners and Shortlists 2005 - 2023

 

Booranga Literary Prizes

Past Winners and Shortlists

2005: fourW sixteen – Inaugural Booranga Prize

Poetry

Keri Glastonbury – anti-suburb

Prose

David Orchard – Midnight Snow

No Short Lists

 

 

2006: fourW seventeen

Poetry

Alison Eastley (2 poems) –

Dead To The World My Body Was Sleeping

If you want to know the difference

Prose

Daniel King (2 stories) –

Nothing Contemplates Nothing

Driving Wheel

No Short Lists

 

 

2007: fourW eighteen

Poetry

Jill Jones – The Beautiful Anxiety

Prose

Daniel King – Heaven and/or Hell

No Short Lists

 

 

2008: fourW nineteen

Poetry

Alicia Sometimes – This Machine Kills Fascists

Prose

Alicia Sometimes – Artist. 2008

No Short Lists

 

2009: fourW twenty

Poetry Winner

Nicole Zdeb – Casual Hills Surround Me

Poetry Short List

Ivy Alvarez – from The Everyday Dictionary: A, M, X

Sam Byfield – Shipping

Brett Dionysius – The Diesel Age

Caroline Reid – A Ceremony to Commemorate the Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth ll

 

Prose Winner

Kate Rotherham – HM

Prose Short List 

Daniel King – Your Pain is My Pain

Helena Pastor – Rubbing

Yasmin Sumner – The Last Bird

 

 

2010: fourW twenty-one

Poetry Winner

Brett Dionysius – Flight

Poetry Short List 

Ivy Alvarez – Chamuel

Alison Eastley – A Parcel

Jill Jones – A Time to Refrain from Embracing

Graham Nunn – Roadside Grave

Scott-Patrick Mitchell – our heaven will betray us

Andrew Purches – The Corpse Eaters

Laura Smith – Clinton’s Cunt

 

Prose Winner

Kirk Marshall – Bear vs Plane

Prose Short List 

Belinda Campbell – The Fowlers

Daniel King – The Spider in the Wind Chimes

 

 

2011: fourW twenty-two

Poetry Winner

Jane Joritz-Nakagawa – from Blank City

Poetry Short List

Ivy Alvarez – Cento Quattro

Matt Hall – Through Haul

Mark O’Flynn – Kate Moss

Goro Takano – That Thing: A Noh Script

Prose Winner

A.S. Patric – Guns ‘N Coffee

Prose Short List

Daniel King – The Quarry

Lara S. Williams – Penny for the Short Step

 

 

2012: fourW twenty-three

Poetry Winner

Michael Farrell – The Structuralist Cowboy

Poetry Short List 

Brett Dionysius – Calf Puller

Stu Hatton – a book of buddhist monks

Patrick Jones – Noxious

Vlanes – Homage to Camoens

 

Prose Winner

Beverley Lello – Especially to Women

Prose Short List

Mark O’Flynn – Dictation

Maryanne Khan – When the Boat Comes In

Daniel King – The Purloined ‘Purloined Letter’

 

 

2013: fourW twenty-four

Poetry Winner 

B.R. Dionysius – Mundgatta (Bunyip)

Poetry Short List

Christopher Barnes – Filming Blood-Shot Silk: Deleted Scenes

Rory Harris – Avoca

Jules Leigh Koch – The Affair

Scott Patrick Mitchell – slum fun

Corey Wakeling – Fake Cheese (Pont Mirabeau)

Chloe Wilson – Agent Gabriel

 

Prose Winner

Broede Carmody – Wet Season

Prose Short List 

Jane Downing – Millionaires

Daniel King – Train of Thought

Andrew Kirby – The Great Bear

Beverley Lello – Sleeping Diagonally

Sean O’Leary – Going all the Way

 

2014: fourW twenty-five

Poetry Winner  

Mark O’Flynn – Six Lipograms

Poetry Short List

Rory Harris – Grace

Alana Kelsall – no sure footing

Rosanna Licari – All Hallows’ Eve

Derek Motion – Winter Collation

Les Wicks – Atlantis

 

Prose Winner

Beverley Lello – Writers’ Retreat

Prose Short List

Jane Downing – Killiney Beach

Daniel King – This Room is not Me

Dorothy Simmons – Sight Unseen

Lara S. Williams – Losing Cooper

 

 

2015: fourW twenty-six

Poetry Winner

Derek Motion – Density

Poetry Short List

Adam Day – Dead Fresian in Winter

Jules Leight Koch – Port Melbourne

Julie Maclean – Prize Collection

Ron Pretty – Plans

Gail Willems – Today I Write These Sad Lines

 

Prose Winner

Maryanne Khan – An Inconvenience

Prose Short List  

Nadine Brown – Drowning

Jane Downing – As Time Goes By

Sean O’Leary – Nowhere

Mike Tager – Where the Dead go to Disco

 

 

2016: fourW twenty-seven

Poetry Winner

Julie Maclean – 41 North 50 West

Poetry Short List

Bronwyn Lang – Mind the Gap

Les Wicks – Riding the Heatwave

Mark Young – Les Colchiques

 

Prose Winner

Beverley Lello – Sounds Like rain

Prose Short List

Daniel King – Coign of Vantage

Sean O’Leary – Prince of the City

 

 

2017: fourW twenty-eight

Poetry Winner

Daniel King – King Henry X

Poetry Short List 

Adam Fieled – Nights I Staggered Drunkenly

Elanna Herbert – Road to Gallipoli: between Cappadocia and Pamukkale

Matt Hetherington – Seidel’s

Kit Kellen – Practice of disappearance

Andy Kissane – Caught

Derek Motion – Birds Poem

Graham Rowlands – Absolutely

 

Prose Winner

Mitchell Grabois – Stinky Cheese

Prose Short List  

Maryanne Khan – Sideways

Alison Lesley – Weightless

Julie Maclean – Joel and Jess on the Verge

Dorothy Simmons – In Your Face

 

 

2018: fourW twenty-nine

Poetry Winner

Andy Kissane – Sacrifice

Poetry Short List  

Christopher Barnes – (2 poems) Decorative value & Move-On Industries TM Breakout

Gary Langford – River Sheep

Wes Lee – The Split

Derek Motion – Glamping

Prose Winner

Dorothy Simmons – Opposable Thumbs

Prose Short List

Natalya Lowndes –as far as a clean white page

Jessica A. McMinn – The End is Where We Start From

Bev Smith – Late-Night Thursdays

2019: fourW thirty

Poetry Winner

Hugh Crago – Equal Rights for Gay Whales

Poetry Short List

Jenny Blackford – Snow

Jennifer Compton – Walking Distance

Elanna Herbert – East…West…East…West…East

Andy Kissane – Aubade for Johnno

Denise O’Hagan – Vermeer in Boston

Gail Willems – Lines of Light

 

Prose Winner

Rachel Mead – The Bouncer and the Blot Clot

Prose Short List  

Alan Fettling – The Balsa Canoe

Daniel King – Our Privacy Statement

Jessica A. McMinn – Touched

Jo Mularczyk – Adrenaline

 

 

2020: fourW thirty-one

Poetry Winner

Tug Dumbly – Fake Billy Collins Poem

Poetry Short List

Jocelyn Freeman – Water

Sarah Rice – Washing

Les Wicks – Misfits

 

Prose Winner

Jane Downing – Buena Vista

Prose Short List 

Jake Dean – Smoko at Pikers Hole

Kristin Hannaford – Someone for Everyone

Jessica A. McMinn – River Boy

Bev Smith – The Honey Bee Table

 

 

2021: fourW thirty-two

Poetry Winner

Damon O’Brien – How to Hold a Knife

Poetry Short List

Jude Aquilina – Beltana to Marree

Lachlan Brown – Prayers for the People

Tug Dumbly – Lychees

Diane Jacono – Before your anger wakes

Michelle Rickerby – Wintering

 

Prose Winner

Rachel Mead – The Bow at Full Draw

Prose Short List  

Tug Dumbly – Bunnings (where ‘lower prices are just the beginning’)

Daniel King – Everything that is Not You is Me

Kate Maxwell – Extra-Existential Angst

Jo Mularczyk – Soul on Fire

Alicia Sometimes – Incompleteness Is All We Have

 

 

2022: fourW thirty-three

Poetry Winner

Lachlan Brown – Underline for Effect

Poetry Short List  

Nathan Curnow – The Hare

Toby Fitch – Poem on Wind and Trees

Kai Jensen – Secular puja

Wes Lee – If you had Died Slowly

Mark Macleod – Blackberry Picking

 

Prose Winner

Jane Downing – Marx’s Pennies

Prose Short List

Raelene Brown – The Purge

Michael Crane – Barossa

Jo Mularczyk – The Empty Page

Sarah Symmonds – Children of the Flood-Plain

 

 

2023: fourW thirty-four

Poetry Winner

Linda Albertson – Some Woman

Poetry Short List

Lachlan Brown – Pneumatic: Eight ‘Sigh-ku’

Cary Hamlin – The Baby Locket

Mark Macleod – Chinese New Year, Gangtok

Neill Overton – Gimcrack

Jena Woodhouse – Midnight Trolleybus

 

Prose Winner  

Christopher Scriven – So much depends

Prose Short List  

Jane Downing – The Thing about things

N.G. Hartland – Carrot

Coco X Huang – Underground

Karla Portch – Down the line

Jennifer Severn – Birthday Girl