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'Short Takes' Prose Competition
Subcategory of Scribes Writers
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Notes

  • 2022 competiton cancelled due to 'unforseen circumstances'. (https://web.archive.org/web/20221204045925/http://www.scribeswriters.com/).

Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 2023

winner Rosemary Stride for 'Amber'.

Year: 2021

winner (Short Story) Tania Park for 'Signs'.

Year: 2020

winner (Short Story) Patricia Rawlinson for 'The Station Master'.
winner (Memoir) Tania Park for 'Never Too Old'.

Year: 2019

winner (Short Story) Pauline Cleary For 'Passing'.
winner (Memoir) Suzanne Gunningham for 'Encounter'.

Year: 2015

winner Elephant in the Room Janeen Samuel , 2016 single work short story
— Appears in: Award Winning Australian Writing 2016 2016; (p. 298-301)
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