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History
'The Fellowship of Australian Writers (FAW) Mornington Peninsula Prize is offered by the Fellowship of Australian Writers Peninsula Region. It is open to short stories of up to 3000 words, of open theme and genre.'
Latest Winners / Recipients
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Year: 2013
winner Feathers Like Fingerprints 2014 single work short story
— Appears in: Award Winning Australian Writing 2014 2014; (p. 111-119)'Once upon a time, when World War II was just ended and possibilities were again whispering over Europe, a German dancer met an Australian doctor in Hamburg’s Zillertal beerhouse. Infatuated, they married on the other side of the world. Under Queensland’s diamond light, the dancer negotiated differences like canyons until a bright-feathered fedora changed her life forever.'
Source: Author's blurb.
