2024 WINNER & RUNNER-UP ANNOUNCED
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2024 WINNER & RUNNER-UP ANNOUNCED 〰️
2024 OLGA MASTERS SHORT STORY AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT // On Saturday 19 October as part of the Headland Writers Festival, Claire Aman was announced as the Winner of the Olga Masters Short Story Award 2024 for her story, Ishbel. The winner was announced by our judges Kate Liston-Mills and Kate Kruimink. Kaitlin Fletcher was named Runner-Up for her story, Mosquito. A BIG congratulations to Claire, Kaitlin, and our Highly Commended entrants!
Claire's winning entry will be published in Island Magazine in November, which is available for purchase through their website and will appear on the Olga Masters website early next year.
Kaitlin Fletcher was the runner-up for her story, Mosquito, which is available to read now via the link below.
Congratulations to the Highly Commended entrants, Bron Morrison, Alexandra O’Sullivan, & Jay Arnold (their stories are also available for reading below).
Congratulations to all entrants of the Olga Masters Short Story Award 2024. The calibre of over 120 stories received from all over Australia was extraordinary!
The Award is managed by South East Arts and supported by Island Magazine. The prize is funded by the Masters Family and the competition was originally established by Well Thumbed Books in Cobargo.
Listen in to ABC South East NSW tomorrow morning, Wednesday 23 October, from 9:30am to hear Andrew Gray & in conversation with Claire Aman.
HIGHLY COMMENDED ENTRIES
2024 brings the exciting return of the OLGA MASTERS SHORT STORY AWARD. Short stories (2000 to 4000 words) on the theme of life in rural Australia.
With the continued support of the Masters family, the Award is administered by South East Arts, in partnership with Island Magazine. The Award welcomes entries from writers of all ages resident in Australia.
Entries open 1 July and will close on 31 August 2024. The Judges for 2024 will be announced soon.
Winners will be announced as part of the HeadLand Writers Festival taking place in Tathra from 18-20 October 2024.
2023 Olga Masters Short Story Award
At the recent Headland Writers Festival, Emma Rosetta was announced as the winner of Olga Masters Short Story Award for her story A Major Theft. Emma's winning entry will be published in Island Magazine in November, which is available for purchase through their website and will appear on here early next year.
Linda Atkins was the runner-up for her story The Doula which is available to read now on the Olga Masters website. Journalist Chirs Masters attended the announcement as a representative of the Masters family who provide the prize money for the Award, run in honour of their mother Olga Masters. Here’s to all our stories -- the living and the written -- and to many more years of nurturing Australian writers in Olga Masters’ memory!
Introducing the 2024 Main Prize Judges
Kate Kruimink
Kate Kruimink is a writer and fiction editor for Island magazine from southern Lutruwita. Her first novel, A Treacherous Country, won the 2020 Australian/Vogel's Prize, was shortlisted for the 2021 Prime Minister's Award for Literature and longlisted for the 2021 Sir Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction in the UK. She was one of the Sydney Morning Herald's Best Young Novelists of 2021. Her second novel, Heartsease, will be released mid-2024 with Picador (Australia and NZ).
Kate Liston-Mills
Kate Liston-Mills is an Australian author, tutor and mother. Inspired by her home town, Pambula, on Yuin land on the far south coast of New South Wales, Kate writes about the people living there and their experiences of tragedy and triumph in everyday life.
Many people have said to me, “What a pity you had such a big family to raise. Think of the novels and the short stories and the poems you never had time to write because of that.” And I looked at my children and I said, “These are my poems, these are my stories.”
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