Stringybark Times Past Award 2024

CLOSED

The Stringybark Flash and Microfiction Award

2012

THIRD PRIZE

FLASH

A Glass Almost Full

by

Otto Fischer

SECOND PRIZE

FLASH

Just Friends

by

Jacqui Halpin

FIRST PRIZE

FLASH

Behind the Wattles

by

John Poole

HIGHLY COMMENDED

Maxie — Gayle Beveridge • And Things Stood… — Peter Bishop • Lunch — Peter Bishop • Acknowledgement — Stephanie Brown • Today — Stephanie Brown • Changing Shape — Holly Bruce • Hindsight — Holly Bruce • • The Wave — Holly Bruce • There is Only One Left — Colin Campbell • Heavens Above! — David Campbell • The Call — Michael Carland • Annie — Sophie Constable • Roadside Tragedy — Catherine Cooper • Truly — Graham D’Elboux • Reprieve — Anne Dwyer • Heaven, Up a Gum Tree — Tania Favazza • The Mouths of Babes — Christine Ferdinands • The Coffee Drinkers — Beverley Fitzgerald • Slim Hope — Michael B Fletcher • Will it Hurt? — Lucille Francis • The Perfect Pav — Penny Gibson • Fire on the Skyline — Harry Gorry • What Price Bubbles — Harry Gorry • There was a Man — Candice Graham • Shark Games — Candice Graham • To Fill the Heart — Barbara Gurney • Tuesdays — Alexis Hailstones • Her Project — Richard Harvie • Better You than Me — Elsie Johnstone • The Music of Life — Michael Keane • Soldier — Beverley Lello • Drop Bear — Benjamin Lee • Lang was Right! — Benjamin Lee • iParadise Lost — Martin Lindsay • Swipe Error — Martin Lindsay • I’m Still Here — Jessica Lye • You Won’t Remember Me — Andy Lynam • A Spring Outing — David John Lynch • Common and Minor — Mark MacNamara • The Note — Richard Marman • The Ticket — Richard Marman • Liebesleid — Vanessa McKinley • It’s Ten-Thirty and They’re Calling My Name — Vanessa McKinley • Spatial High Jinks — William Mildren • Petrichor — John Poole • Rainbow Misconnection — Margie Riley • My Best Friend — Helen Rogan • The Complaints Department — Helen Rogan • The Nightly Stalker — Elaine Ross • A Lovely Cup of Tea — J.B. Rowley • Jillian — Derek Scales • Bad Sport — John Scholz • Increments of Fear — John Scholz • The Return of Hope — John Scholz • The Rip — John Scholz • The Morning After  — Jennifer Shapcott • Crushed Mint — Laura Jan Shore • Cutting — Graeme Simsion • The Butcher Boy — Katinka Smith • Number Twenty-Four — Barbara Stackpoole • Lost at Sea — Coral Sturgess • Enid Remembers… — Beata Taylor • Packenham to Melbourne — Diana Thurbon • Outback Casanova — Isla Troy • Getting By — Maggie Veness • Redemption Bay — Paul Whipp • The Boxes — Michael Wilkinson • Look to the Sky — Paul Williams • Remembering — Paul Williams • Afterglow — Tony Williams • Rest in Peace — Tony Williams

THIRD PRIZE

MICRO

12.7 Hours

by

Martin Lindsay

SECOND PRIZE

MICRO

1910

by

Graham D’Elboux

FIRST PRIZE

MICRO

The Question

by

Kerry Lown Whalen

Competition Closed: 26th August 2012

345 entries.  $770 in prizes.

Judges: Antoinette Merrillees, Julia Robertson, Jamie Todling and David Vernon

Editor: David Vernon

Proof-reader: Jeanette Vernon

Cover designer: David Vernon

Cover artist: Claire McFarlane

Australian printer: Kainos Print (Canberra/Sydney)

77 published stories.  One e-book and printed anthology, Behind the Wattles.

edited by David Vernon, e-book — and paperback,  Stringybark Publishing,

ISBN: 978-0-9872558-5-3

$9.95 includes postage within Australia.  Discounts for multiple purchases.