CONGRATULATIONS TO 2020 OLGA MASTERS SHORT STORY WINNER, ALISON FLETT.
ALISON FLETT
Alison Flett is originally from Scotland where her poetry collection Whit Lassyz Ur Inty was shortlisted for the Saltire First Book of the Year Award. Her work was also anthologised in Dreamstate: New Scottish Poets (Polygon), Ahead Of Its Time (Jonathan Cape), Modern Scottish Women Poets (Canongate) and 100 Favourite Scottish Poems (Luath Press).
She has performed her work on national television and radio and at numerous literary festivals. Since moving to Australia, she has been published in various journals including Australian Poetry Journal, Cordite, Rabbit, Southerly, Stylus Lit, Tincture, Westerly.
She has been longlisted for the Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize and the Bridport Short Story Prize (UK), shortlisted for the Whitmore Press Manuscript Award, the Adelaide Festival Unpublished Manuscript Award, The University of Canberra International Poetry Prize and the Newcastle Poetry Prize. She is an arts reviewer for InDaily, poetry editor for Transnational Literature and publisher at Little Windows Press.
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CONGRATULATIONS TO RUNNER-UP, JO LANGDON.
JO LANGDON
Jo Langdon is the author of two poetry collections: Snowline (Whitmore Press, 2012) and Glass Life (Five Islands Press, 2018). Her recent work is also published in journals such as Antipodes, Cordite, Island, Overland, and Southerly. Jo's short fiction was commended in the 2020 Newcastle Short Story Award, and in 2018 she was a fellow of the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation’s Sozopol Fiction Seminars and CapitaLiterature festival in Bulgaria. She currently lives and works on Wadawurrung land in Geelong, Victoria.
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UNDER IVY
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE WINNEr OF THE 2020 OLGA MASTERS SHORT STORY YOUTH CATEGORY (13-18)
LUCA YI
Luca Yi is a 16 year old homeschooled writer and performer from the Bega Valley on Djiringanj country. His creative interests encompass digital filmmaking, coding, scriptwriting, theatre, dance, oboe and singing.
He is a member of Fling and a co-creator at Funhouse Studio. He has written a short play for Theatre Onset's latest production "Bat Soup", and has written a radio play podcast which he hopes to publish in the future.
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SOMEPLACE ELSE
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE runner-up OF THE 2020 OLGA MASTERS SHORT STORY YOUTH CATEGORY (13-18)
HELEN LOVEGROVE
I have had a love of reading books from an early age, and my writing started out as an attempt to reinvent myself with my favorite characters in stories. I have been encouraged by some great teachers, who have helped me find my own stories and characters. At the start my thoughts always flew faster than I could write or type, but
with practice over the years I have learned to outline characters and plots of stories so that I can come back to them — and I can now type pretty fast too! I have been drawn towards writing science fiction and fantasy (my Dad has a huge collection I am reading through), but I mostly enjoy writing characters who tell jokes, have fun and are kind. As well as reading and writing my interests include learning to drive around the streets and highways of WA, playing cricket and a wide variety of musical instruments including the
bagpipes!
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BOARDING AND BAGPIPES
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE 2020 OLGA MASTERS SHORT STORY AWARD UNDER 12 WINNER
GYPSY RIGATOS
Gypsy Django grew up travelling in musical and magical vans, living in a house full of books and colourful items, swimming in rocky creeks and climbing beautiful green landscapes, and driving along hills and valleys with her mum, sister, cat Silver and their friendly chickens. She likes being creative and imagining a lot, loves animals and would like to own lots of them, and she loves writing and making art. She lives in in Candelo, NSW Australia!
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KANGAROO