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History

These awards are offered by the Glen Eira City Council and held as part of the Glen Eira Storytelling Festival.

Notes

  • Annual award which includes the following sections: 'My Brother Jack' Short Story Award, Short Script/Play Award and the Eastend Booksellers Local Short Story Award. There are also Youth Awards for short story and poetry.

    The awards are sponsored by the Caulfield RSL.

Latest Winners / Recipients (also see subcategories)v1003

Year: 2008

On a Visit to Jerusalem i "Like you", Ralph Genende , 2009 single work poetry
— Appears in: Etchings , no. 6 2009; (p. 121)
Poetry Award

Year: 2004

winner (Sunflower Bookshop Short Story Prize) Vermillion Meg Mundell , 2005 single work short story
— Appears in: Meanjin , vol. 64 no. 1-2 2005; (p. 3-10) Encounters : Modern Australian Short Stories 2006; (p. 129-140)
A blind man, living downstairs from a female artist, gauges her life through the sounds he hears from above.

Year: 2000

winner ('My Brother Jack' Short Story Award) The Graffiti of Mr Kynyatta Michael Griffith , 2000 single work short story
— Appears in: Meanjin : Fine Writing & Provocative Ideas , vol. 59 no. 4 2000; (p. 10-16)

Year: 1999

joint winner ('My Brother Jack' Short Story Award) Millefiori Jane Watson , 1999 single work short story
— Appears in: Meanjin , vol. 58 no. 2 1999; (p. 50-56)
joint winner ('My Brother Jack' Short Story Award) Point of Departure, Point of Return Marshall Browne , 1999 single work short story
— Appears in: Meanjin , vol. 58 no. 3 1999; (p. 14-21) Secret Lives : Thirty-four Modern Australian Short Stories 2003; (p. 116-125)

Year: 1998

winner ('My Brother Jack' Short Story Award) Song of the Aunts Judith Lukin-Amundsen , 1998 single work short story
— Appears in: Meanjin , vol. 57 no. 2 1998; (p. 424-430)
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