FREMANTLE ROUND HOUSE JOHN GAVIN WRITING COMPETITION 2023 JUDGE Brooke Dunnell
Brooke Dunnell’s short fiction has been widely published in journals and anthologies, including Best Australian Stories, Meanjin, Westerly, The Big Issue fiction edition, New Australian Fiction 2021 and New Australian Stories 2. She also works as a workshop facilitator and editor. Her short story collection Female(s and) Dogs was shortlisted for the 2020 Carmel Bird Digital Literary Award and the 2021 Woollahra Digital Literary Award. Her first novel, The Glass House, won the Fogarty Literary Award in 2021 and was published by Fremantle Press in 2022.
Judge’s Report – John Gavin Writing Competition 2023
OPEN:
1ST PRIZE Emily Robertson – The Southern Dunes
2nd PRIZE Pip Brennan – A Mothers Vigil
HIGHLY COMMENDED Stephen Scott – The Second Son
HIGHLY COMMENDED Claire Watson – Send not for whom the bell tolls
WA SCHOOLS:
1ST PRIZE Ziva Taylor – Bottom of the Pack
2nd PRIZE Saoirse Farrell – A borrowed murder
HIGHLY COMMENDED Piper Seear – Voices
YOUNG WRITER’S ENCOURAGEMENT AWARD Oliver Newman – Words from the Afterlife
(Selected by the John Gavin Writing Competition Sub Committee)
