The 2010 Pittwater Short Story Award

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We received more than 150 entries for the third Berkelouw Books Pittwater Short Story Award. This year the stories had to be set in Pittwater and they had make reference to sandstone. The participants rose to the challenge. We had stories featuring sandstone footpaths, walls, lighthouses, cliffs and ledges. We had sandstone caves embellished with indigenous art; we had sandstone monsters and evil villains who could turn innocent people into sandstone. We had sandstone rocks that contained magical and valuable gemstones. And we had a sandstone rock that was a murder weapon!

To help us sort through these riches we had a panel of judges and we would like to thank them all – they were Ann Graham, Geraldine Ash, Gill Wood, Louise Park, Nicola Elliott, Rebeccah Vick, Sandra Nicol, Andrew Humphreys and Sheila Edwards.

On June 24th we awarded the contest winners. Harvey Rose, the mayor of Pittwater, came to present the prizes and more than 40 people attended the ceremony including writers, their friends and families.

The winners were:

Category 1 – Writers 9-12 years of age

Edie Bannerman – for her story I Just Want to be Loved.

Lydia Catlin-Struthers and Emma Todd were also highly commended for their stories in this category.

Category 2 – Writers 13-16 years of Age

Reece Senior – for his story The Wall

Open Category

Denise Leith – for her story Coming Home

Ann Rudd was also highly commended for her story in this category.

Ann Rudd has also kindly provided the photographs that accompany this story. Thank you Ann.

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