Congratulations and a big thank you to all entrants. The standard was very high and made judging by the panel very difficult.
MGC Creative Writing Awards 2021
Congratulations and a big thank you to all entrants!
MGC Poetry Award
Winner: Marnie Florence-McNeil/Claire Riverland, All Hail Prince Percival
Runner-up: Kimmy Nguyen Thoi, When Misogynists Wear a School Blazer; Serenie Tsai, Life in Colour
MGC Prose Non-fiction Award
Winner: Erin Simoni, Diary of a water droplet
Runner-up: Rachel Chiu, Desecration
MGC Graphic Fiction and Other Writing Award
Winner: Maggie Chong, Chop Line Suey
MGC Year 11 and 12 Short Fiction Award
1st Place: Imogen Leigh, The Thing About Life
2nd Place: Mahli Chapman, The Indigo Jar
3rd Place: Berry Durad, The Deaths at Dusk
Runner-up: Smi Soni, Do I?
MGC Year 9 and 10 Short Fiction Award
1st Place: Lucy Op’T Hoog, Red
2nd Place: Alina Ivanova, Moon Boy
3rd Place: Gwyneth Op’T Hoog, The Boy and The Bear
Runner-up: Olivia Matthews-Milici, Concerto in A minor
MGC Year 7 and 8 Short Fiction Award
1st Place: Nora Dandurand, Departmentalising
2nd Place: Mila Gray, We aren’t detectives
3rd Place: Zaynab Syed, Blooms Amidst Adversity
Runner-up: Rosemary Gerner, A Tale of Light and Luck; Stephanie Qi, Black Cat; Philippa Castaldo, Petals Of A God.
EAL Award
Winner: Amber Lam, Portrait
Runner-up: Melina Deldar, Wish the Olds; Shelia Feng, The Mountain.
Listowel Short Story Award
Winner:
Imogen Leigh, The Thing About Life
Short List:
Berry Durad, The Deaths at Dusk
Gwyneth Op’T Hoog, The Boy and The Bear
Lucy Op’T Hoog, Red
Dorothea Lam, A Late Realization
Mahli Chapman, The Indigo Jar
Solei Chapman, The General’s Toy, My Beloved’s Muse
