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Overland Story Wine Prize
Subcategory of Awards Australian Awards
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History

This competition aims to discover the finest in original short fiction up to 800 words in length. The winning story was published on the label of a Story Wine shiraz.

Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 2016

winner Sweeping Cameron Weston , 2016 single work short story
— Appears in: Overland , Summer no. 225 2016; (p. 50) Award Winning Australian Writing 2017 2017; (p. 97-99)

Year: 2015

winner Woodsmoke Melissa Manning , 2015 single work short story
— Appears in: Overland , Summer no. 221 2015; (p. 53) Award Winning Australian Writing 2016 2016; (p. 27-28)

Year: 2014

winner Leah Swann For: 'That Inward Eye'
winner That Inward Eye Leah Swann , 2014 single work short story
— Appears in: Overland , Summer no. 217 2014; (p. 61)

Works About this Award

Story Wine Prize Paddy O'Reilly , 2014 single work essay
— Appears in: Overland , Summer no. 217 2014; (p. 60)

'The article offers information on the winners for the Story Wine Prize of the journal "Overland." Among the short story that won the prize include "That inward eye," by Leah Swann, as the first place, runner-ups "I thought maybe I could be a lounge singer," by Lauren Aimee Curtis, and "6 p.m. Saturday night," by Sally Breen.' (Publication summary)

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