Banjo Paterson Writing Awards

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Winners of the 2009 Childrens' Banjo Paterson Writing Awards at the Banjo Paterson Sculpture

WINNERS OF BANJO PATERSON WRITING AWARDS 1991 -2010

POETRY

• 1991 One winner only – see Prose
• 1992 One winner only – see Prose
• 1993 One winner only – see Prose
• 1994 Katrina Iffland
• 1995 Anne Fairbairn “High Country Dreaming”
• 1996 Ron Stevens “Appearances”
• 1997 David Astle “Collecting the Spoken”
• 1998 Peter Hanbury “Reconciliation”
• 1999 Anne Morgan “An Unknown Wreck: Macquarie Island”
• 2000 Louise Oxley “Memorial”
• 2001 Hylda Rolfe “For an old lady”
• 2002 Jennifer Martiniello “Emily Knwarreye”
• 2003 Roger Vickery “Recollections of an Old Town”
• 2004 Judy Johnson “A Whaler’s Wife at Sea”
• 2005 Judy Johnson “The Last Days of Mary Watson”
• 2006 Judy Johnson “How Australia’s Last Manned Lighthouse Knows her Keeper”
• 2007 David Campbell “Lifeblood”
• 2008 Jo Mills “Walyunga”
• 2009 Judy Johnson “The Bushranger’s Bible”
• 2010 Brenda Saunders “Wonderland”

PROSE

• 1991 Heather Bird “A Sash with Tassels”
• 1992 Kit Denton “Porpoise”
• 1993 Bruce Roberts “The Gun or the Vet”
• 1994 Ashley Hay
• 1995 Simon Luckhurst “Signs of Life”
• 1996 Peter Hanbury “As Joey Sees It”
• 1997 David Astle “Blood Tree”
• 1998 Georgia Richter “The Bracken War”
• 1999 Angela Malone “Fiddle Song”
• 2000 Pat Skinner “Cake Forks at Lake Titicaca”
• 2001 Tom Flood “The Old Trails”
• 2002 Tracylee Arestides “South Gate Road”
• 2003 Erin Gough “Jump”
• 2004 Barry Divola “Nipple”
• 2005 Barry Divola “Cicada Boy”
• 2006 Barry Divola “Nixon”
• 2007 Joanne Riccioni “Mrs Taylor Gets a Tattoo”
• 2008 Margaret Betts “Exposure”
• 2009 Peter W Bishop “Lukey”
• 2010 Jacqueline Winn “The Dangers of Swimming”

COMIC POETRY SECTION (1997 and 2002)

• 1997 Tug Dumbly “Barbeque Bill and the Roadkill Café”
• 1998 John Bird “The Ant Bed Court”
• 1999 Peter Hanbury “The Sitting Poets Society”
• 2000 Peter Hanbury “The Organ Replacement”
• 2001 Tug Dumbly “Skasey of the Overdraft”
• 2002 No prize awarded

BUSH POETRY SECTION (From 2003)

• 2003 Susan Muranty “The Wild Suburban Tree”
• 2004 Graeme Johnson “Faces on the Wall”
• 2005 Ron Stevens “Battlefields and Blossoms”
• 2006 Ellis Campbell “The Carlton Clydesdales”
• 2007 Cathy Bennetts “Old Murphy’s Pub”
• 2008 Ron Stevens “Distant Dialogue”
• 2009 Ron Stevens “The Shame of Staying Put”
• 2010 Ron Stevens “Behind the Flag”

CHILDREN’S WRITING (Since 1993)

• 1993 Stephen Smith “The Dutchman”
• 1994 Elizabeth Sayers “When I was Grown Up”
• 1995 Elizabeth Elliot “Bushfire”
• 1996 Lucy Robertson “The Troublesome Male”
• 1997 Lucy Robertson “Moving On”
• 1998 Sally Robertson “The Play”
• 1999 Tegwyn Bath “Returning Home”
• 2000 Caitlin Jones “Home to Stay”
• 2001 Hannah Bath “4.00am”
• 2002 Caitlin Bath “Fairy Land”
• 2003 Caitlin Bath “Blow Wind”
• 2004 Catherine Fellows “Lost in Time”
• 2005 Caitlin Bath “Wind Moods”
• 2006 Lucy Kopechy “On the Hawkesbury”
• 2007 No prize awarded
• 2008 Thomas Whitehead “My Favourite Holiday”
• 2009 Isaac Bath “Bushfire”
• 2010 Chris Frith “The Downpour”