Please enjoy reading what the 2009 Judging Panel chose as the Finalists and were announced at a Presentation Lunch on Wednesday 16 September 2009.

Entries for the 2010 Competition will soon be accepted on this website.

1st Prize of $6,000

Eliza Murray - ANU College of Arts for her entry Lily (PDF)

2nd prize of $3,000

Drew Ninnis - ANU College of Arts for his entry The Joints of the old House creaked in the Breeze (PDF)

3rd prize of $2,000

Kirani Carlin - ANU College of Arts for her entry Dusk (PDF)

Runners up

Will Glasgow - ANU College of Arts for his entry Contemporary Rock Art in the Budawang Ranges (PDF)

Adrian Power - ANU Colleges of Science and Law for his entry Salvation (PDF)

Hilary Manning - ANU College of Arts for her entry Black Crows: A Study in Humanity (PDF)

Claire Capel-Stanley - ANU College of Arts for her entry Letter to America (PDF)

Sophie Wilkinson - ANU College of Arts for her entry The Arrangement (PDF)

Tim Collins - ANU College of Arts for his entry The Final Winter (PDF)

Sianon Daley - ANU College of Science for her entry "In Midnight" (Ms Daley chose not to publish)