ACT Writing and Publishing Awards


ACT Writing and Publishing Awards Winners (2004 + )

2008

Fiction Non-fiction

Winner
Frankis, Peter
Not a Flotation Device
ACTHL Location:
H A823.4 FRAN.

Winner
Horsfield, Jennifer
Rainbow
ACTHL Location:
H 355.22363 HORS

Highly Commended
Wicks, Graeme
The Real World

Short Listed
Hill, Alyson
Chooks in the City
ACTHL Location:
H 363.5 HILL

Stone, Richard
A Boy’s Journey – an Australian memoir of childhood

2007

Poetry Fiction Non-Fiction Children's

Tim Metcalf,
Verbal Medicine

Rory Steele,
Ghosts in the Helmet Trees
ACTHL Location:
H A823.4 STEE

David Vernon,
Men at Birth

Stephen Matthews,
Secrets
ACTHL Location:
H A823.0108 SECR

2006 Poetry

  Fiction Non-Fiction Memoir Guidebook

Michael Byrne,
Southbound
ACTHL Location:
H A821.4 BYRN

Kaaron Warren,
The Grinding House
ACTHL Location:
H A823.4 WARR

Graeme Barrow,
Unlocking History's Secrets

ACTHL Location:
H 919.4704 BARR

George Huitker,
How to Succeed Without Really Winning
ACTHL Location:
H 796.334 HUIT

Donna Maree Hanson,
Australian Speculative Fiction: A Genre Overview
ACTHL Location:
H A823.0876 HANS

2005

Fiction

Non-Fiction Children's Fiction 

Winner

Michael Thwaites.
Unfinished Journey
ACTHL Location:
H A821.3 THWA

Winner

Peter Frankis,
Trouble in the Garden 
ACTHL Location:
H A823.4 FRAN

Winner

Eurobodalla Writers, edited by Hilary Trotter.
Days of Innocents

Winner
Graeme Hume and Caroline Ambrus.
The Year of the Mean Queen
ACTHL Location: H A823.4 AMBR

Highly Commended
Melinda Smith,
Mapless in Underland 
ACTHL Location:
H A821.4 SMIT

Highly Commended
Danette Watson & Stephanie Corkhill Hayes.
25 ways to awaken your birth power


Derek F Wrigley.
Making your home sustainable

A.K. Tebecis
Is the future in our hands?

 

2004

PoetryFictionNon-Fiction

Winner

Geoff Page,
Indigo Book of Modern Australian Sonnets

ACTHL Location:
H A821.042 INDI

Winner

Narelle Wickham,
You

ACTHL Location:
H A823.4 WICK

Winner

Klaus Hueneke,
Huts in the Victorian Alps

ACTHL Location:
H 994.51 HEUN

Highly Commended
Lawrence Bourke,
A Cold Touch
ACTHL Location:
H A821.4 BOUR

Tim Metcalf,
Into the No Zone

Highly Commended
Hugh Capel,
Kiandra Gold 
ACTHL Location:
H A823.4 CAPE

Highly Commended
Stephen Matthews,
How did the fire know we lived here?

ACTHL Location:
H 363.37909947 HOW

Neil Manton,
Cultural relations
ACTHL Location:
H 303.48294059 MANT

Margaret Wade,
Canberra’s secrets
ACTHL Location:
H 919.470466 WADE