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Subcategory of Scarlet Stiletto Awards
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Notes

  • This award was inaugurated in 2007 replacing the Dorothy Porter Award for Best Story in Verse.

Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 2007

inaugural winner Xenos Evelyn Tsitas , 2007 single work short story crime
— Appears in: Scarlet Stiletto : The Second Cut 2011; (p. 224-237)

Works About this Award

Spiked Shoes George Kootafah (fl.1962) , 1996 single work prose humour
— Appears in: The Australian Yarn : The Definitive Collection 1996; (p. 85-6)
An old bushman tells of how he and a mate had been working on road construction when they came across some old horseshoes with a unique feature.
The Reluctant Gardener Bill Aplin , 1980 single work short story
— Appears in: Out in the Great North West 1980; (p. 6-8)
A policeman newly posted to a country town enlists the help of a reluctant local Aboriginal man to create a vegetable garden and lawn.
All this Hustle i "In this restless age,", Den , 1937 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Queenslander , 1 December 1937; (p. 3)
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