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Congratulations to the winners of the 2024 Boroondara Literary Awards, hosted in partnership with Rotary Club of Balwyn.
Held annually since 1999, these awards celebrate the creativity of writers and poets within the City of Boroondara and Victoria.
See the full list of awarded entries for this year below.
You can also read the winning entries from both this year and previous years in our annual Literary Awards anthologies. Search for the anthology in the library catalogue.
Open Short Story category
| Place | Name | Title |
|---|---|---|
| First | Isabel Greenslade | Dandelions |
| Second | Mark Vender | This Body I Give You |
| Third | Dennis Callegari | Expertise |
| Highly commended | Elizabeth Walkenhorst | Causation |
| Highly commended | Sue Braint | Small Talk |
| Highly commended | Alison Killick | Mount Fuji |
| Keith Carroll Award | Dennis Callegari | Expertise |
Young writers prose
Junior prose
| Place | Name | Title |
|---|---|---|
| First | Jessica Vuong | Broken Loyalties |
| Second | Matthew Hu | The Hole in the Tree |
| Third | Sophie Lau | Heights |
| Highly commended | William Hui | New Home |
| Highly commended | Emily Hill | Cockatoo Revenge |
| Highly commended | Lachlan Sheean | The Hammer |
Middle prose
| Place | Name | Title |
|---|---|---|
| First | Annalisa Chen | Echobound |
| Second | Olivia Wilding | Yellow Submarine |
| Third | Amelie Ashley | Goodbye Thomas |
| Highly commended | Jamie Greening | The Epiphany of Enchanted Youth |
| Highly commended | Selena Feng | Under Oil Lamps and Moonlight |
| Highly commended | Lauren Sisourath | The Vagabond |
Senior prose
| Place | Name | Title |
|---|---|---|
| First | Saul Howells | The Blurry Tale of Joseph Caulin (as masked by my memory) |
| Second | Anna Wang | Bao |
| Third | Rosa Toon | Dulce et Decorum est |
| Highly commended | Lucia Chan | Caligula's Last Soliloquy |
| Highly commended | Caitlin Jong | Craters |
| Highly commended | Areeb Rayann | A Tale of Two Scientists |
Young writers poetry
Junior poetry
| Place | Name | Title |
|---|---|---|
| First | Edison Gravina | The Beach |
| Second | Bruce Heathcote | The Wind Howls |
| Third | Bonnie Sun | Tomorrow Will Be Better |
| Highly commended | Mia Healey | A Dangerous Duo |
| Highly commended | Luke Chen | Winter |
Middle poetry
| Place | Name | Title |
|---|---|---|
| First | Ariane Neoh | MAKAN! (Let's Eat!) |
| Second | Chloe Santosa | Until We Meet Again |
| Third | Asha Bhattacharjee | Orange |
| Highly commended | Alannah Whitehouse | The Place Only I Go |
Senior poetry
| Place | Name | Title |
|---|---|---|
| First | Polina Li | drafts from my phone. |
| Second | Josephine Nguyen | The Cottage Off Auburn Street |
| Third | Stella Ray | Eucalyptus |
| Highly commended | Echo Marriott | B-03 |