Competition Winners

2020 River 94.9 Award – 5-7 Years	PoemArray ( )	Winner
1st	Favourite Pets	Marli Farrer
2nd	Red	Sarah Damasiewicz
3rd	Baby's Day	Sarah Damasiewicz

Runners Up
Highly Commended	Young vs Old	Izac Crompton
Highly Commended	Bright Orange	Bonnie Buttimore
Highly Commended	Black Jaguar	Mia Campbell
Highly Commended	I Am	Ayak Ajang
Highly Commended	Three Little Skaters	Osborn Wang
Highly Commended	Frozen in Winter	Luka Middleton

 

2020 Ipswich District Teacher Librarian Network Award – 8-10 Years	PoemArray ( )	Winner
1st	A Change	Allegra Clarke
2nd	Poor Boy	Daniel Pyke
3rd	Ago	Finn Mulvogue

Runners Up
Highly Commended	Fire	Chelsea Ambrose
Highly Commended	Rhopalocera	Allegra Clarke
Highly Commended	Tomorrow	Eleanor Rydstrom
Highly Commended	The Daisy	Averie Sun
Highly Commended	School is a Jungle	Isabella Holiday
Highly Commended	A Good Book	Finn Mulvogue
Highly Commended	Pop's Pride (A Tetractys)	Allegra Clarke
Highly Commended	Misty	Dalton Furtado
Highly Commended	Destructive Fire	Flynn Otto
Highly Commended	Tamborine Mountain Lookout	Leonie Hill

 

2020 Broderick Family Awards 11-13 Years	PoemArray ( )	Winner
1st	Natsukashii	Caitlin McCusker
2nd	Yirrganydji Dreaming	Amaeh Reed
3rd	Smoke	Isobel Riches

Runners Up
Highly Commended	Sun and Cloud	Alannah Buckingham
Highly Commended	Hanahaki	Patricia Mabini
Highly Commended	Flame	Isobel Riches
Highly Commended	Outside is the Inside, Right?	Riley Gallagher
Highly Commended	More Wishes	Hannah Randall
Highly Commended	The Flying Dutchman	Hannah Oakley
Highly Commended	Mosquito	Caitlin Mayo
Highly Commended	Morning Routine	Meihsha Miller

 

2020 Queensland Times Award- 14-15 Years	PoemArray ( )	Winner
1st	The Satanic Verses	Michael Swift
2nd	Golden Hour	Portia Claire Hoole
3rd	My Mother’s Tongue	Taehee Ahn

Runners Up
Highly Commended	Ode to Farmhouse Soup	Saskia Flemming
Highly Commended	Game: LIFE	Lyn Duong
Highly Commended	Higanbana	Lyn Duong
Highly Commended	Vanity Mirror	Livinia Tamara
Highly Commended	Artemis	Charlotte Ryan
Highly Commended	The Chocolate Soldier	Michael Swift
Highly Commended	Bark in the Blaze	Alan Madappatt

 

2020 Ipswich City Council Award – 16-17 Years	PoemArray ( )	Winner
1st	Perspectives	Elizabeth Marsh
2nd	Our Mother's Struggle	Tessa Quinlan
3rd	My Great Aunt's Piano	Annie Mellick

Runners Up
Highly Commended	Writing Poetry	Jhermayne Ubalde
Highly Commended	When the Relatives Return	Penelope (Penny) Duran
Highly Commended	The Christmas Paper Caper	Archer Bloomfield
Highly Commended	How To Be Straight	Jhermayne Ubalde
Highly Commended	Bible Study	Jhermayne Ubalde
Highly Commended	Rain	Amy Nancarrow
Highly Commended	Reflection of a Schoolgirl	Penelope (Penny) Duran
Highly Commended	Tsunami	Holly Atherton

 

2020 Ipswich Poetry Feast Awards Open Age – Bush Poetry	PoemArray ( )	Winner
1st	Remembering Bill the Bastard	Irene Dalgety Timpone
2nd	Where Angels Tread	Tom McIlveen
3rd	Bringing the Cattle Home	Irene Dalgety Timpone

Runners Up
Highly Commended	Forgotten Heroes	Kay Gorring
Highly Commended	Fishing for a Gucci	Tom McIlveen
Highly Commended	The Mask	John Roberts
Highly Commended	Dining with the Devil	John Roberts
Highly Commended	Freddy 'K'	Tom McIlveen

 

2020 Joy Chambers & Reg Grundy Awards Open Age – Other Poetry	PoemArray ( )	Winner
1st	Halfway Home	Paul Whitby
2nd	Music of the Berries	Janeen Brian
3rd	Lost Songs of Spring	Rowan Donovan

Runners Up
Highly Commended	Musings and Meanderings	Tim Collins
Highly Commended	Western Spinebill	Mitchell Kelly
Highly Commended	Menindee	Vanessa Page
Highly Commended	Art Mistress	Jena Woodhouse
Highly Commended	Inside the Steam Train	Cathy Bryant
Highly Commended	Reserves of Coping	Jenny Blackford
Highly Commended	A Grandfather's Story	Damen O'Brien
Highly Commended	BLM	Peter Chung

 

2020 Ipswich City Council Awards Open Age – Local Poets	PoemArray ( )	Winner
1st	A Friendly Warning	Cassandra Farthing
2nd	In Training	Robert Chapman
3rd	No Ambrosia	Kel Wheeldon

Runners Up
Highly Commended	Joe's Mate	Maureen Clifford
Highly Commended	Just a Little Drop	Francis Kelly
Highly Commended	The Clothesline	Suzanne Dick
Highly Commended	Run	Cassandra Farthing

 

2020 Picture Ipswich Awards – Open Age	PoemArray ( )	Winner
1st	Postcard	Janice Williams
2nd	Artefacts from my Grandmother's House	Vanessa Page
3rd	Hello Girls Villanelle	Joe Dolce

 

2020 Ipswich Poetry Feast Encouragement Awards	PoemArray ( )	Winner
5-17 Years	Flame	Isobel Riches
Open Age	Musings and Meanderings	Tim Collins
School Award	St Thomas More College

 

2020 Overall Winner & recipient of the Babies of Walloon bronze statuette	PoemArray ( )	Winner
Overall Winner	Irene Dalgety Timpone

 

River 94.9 Award – 5-7 Years	PoemArray ( )	Winner
1st	Play with Me	Thomas Savige
2nd	The Unforgiving Season	Allegra Clarke
3rd	Baby Turtle	Noah Springall

Runners Up
Highly Commended	Aotearoa	Allegra Clarke
Highly Commended	Save the Goal	Thomas Savige
Highly Commended	The Beast Man	Joel Sage
Highly Commended	Nature	Zoe Gard

 

Ipswich District Teacher Librarian Network Award – 8-10 Years	PoemArray ( )	Winner
1st	Forevermore	Isabella Holiday
2nd	Tricked	Samuel Hollier
3rd	Sodium, Acid and Lotion (or the Reaction at Perth College)	Elizaveta Fedotova

Runners Up
Highly Commended	My Memories	Charlotte Parkin
Highly Commended	The War Under the Sea	Charlotte Brown
Highly Commended	Brown	Leon O'Donnell
Highly Commended	Darkness	Dora Wang
Highly Commended	#HomeSweetHome	Alexandria White
Highly Commended	Fishing with Pa	Izach Parr
Highly Commended	The River	Ivy Guyatt
Highly Commended	The Vacuum Cleaner Got out of Control	Elisha Wilkinson

 

Broderick Family Awards 11-13 Years	PoemArray ( )	Winner
1st	The Journey of the Wind	Callan Rhys Peterson
2nd	Happy Thoughts	Pharell Nepe
3rd	Black Saturday	Amaeh Reed

Runners Up
Highly Commended	Forget Me Not	Levi Vereyken
Highly Commended	The Poppy Tree	Amaeh Reed
Highly Commended	The Broken Among Us	Pharell Nepe
Highly Commended	Fire	David Moala
Highly Commended	Undertaker	Hudson Tille
Highly Commended	Lightning	Luke Frappell
Highly Commended	Trees	Madelynne Craig
Highly Commended	Decorated Cups	Leira Camille Caniones

 

Queensland Times Award- 14-15 Years	PoemArray ( )	Winner
1st	War Lion	Tessa Quinlan
2nd	A Good Morning	Holly Wallman-Craddock
3rd	To Split A Pomegranate	Helen Lovegrove

Runners Up
Highly Commended	He Stole Excalibur from a Pawn Shop	Kirra Watkins
Highly Commended	JUST S(T)AY	Sally Bailey

 

Ipswich City Council Award – 16-17 Years	PoemArray ( )	Winner
1st	Cross Words	Penelope Duran
2nd	Wash, Rinse, Repeat	Penelope Duran
3rd	Cerulean	Penelope Duran

Runners Up
Highly Commended	Soft Morning	Maja Vasic
Highly Commended	Father Time	Allegra Pestell
Highly Commended	Coughing up Wildflowers	Hunter Smith
Highly Commended	This System	Sophie van der Helder
Highly Commended	Her Own Knight	Penelope Duran
Highly Commended	Hermann Göring	Oscar Townsend

 

Ipswich Poetry Feast Awards Open Age – Bush Poetry	PoemArray ( )	Winner
1st	Kelly's Corner	Heather Knight
2nd	Australis in Extremis	Catherine Lee
3rd	A Simple Epitaph	Tom McIlveen

Runners Up
Highly Commended	Mallee Farmer	Max Merckenschlager
Highly Commended	From Gallipoli with Love	Tom McILveen
Highly Commended	Song of the Water-Lilies	Max Merckenschlager
Highly Commended	Walk a Mile in Our Shoes!	David Campbell

 

Joy Chambers & Reg Grundy Awards Open Age – Other Poetry	PoemArray ( )	Winner
1st	Wanderers	Jena Woodhouse
2nd	Nocturne for a Vanished Farm	Jena Woodhouse
3rd	Grey’s Anatomy	Damen O’Brien

 

Ipswich City Council Awards Open Age – Local Poets	PoemArray ( )	Winner
1st	The Last Summer Rose	Leonie Parker

 

Picture Ipswich Awards – Open Age	PoemArray ( )	Winner
1st	The Extended Challenge	Donald Walker

 

Ipswich Poetry Feast Encouragement Awards	PoemArray ( )	Winner
5-17 Years	Softly Burning Silence	Portia Clair Hoole
Open Age	Death of the Brumbies	Pat Fennell
School Winner	Westside Christian College

 

2019 Overall Winner & recipient of the Babies of Walloon bronze statuette	PoemArray ( )	Winner
Overall Winner	Jena Woodhouse

 

Ipswich District Teacher Librarian Network Award – 8-10 Years	PoemArray ( )	Winner
First Prize	Henry's Poem	Amaeh Reed
Second Prize	An Ode to Alzheimer's: Can You Remember?	Alyssa Sim
Third Prize	Imagine This	Arabella Goyal

Runners Up
Highly Commended	Family and Friends	Alya Turnell
Highly Commended	Australia	Max Stanevich
Highly Commended	Rippled in Mirrors	Isla Mannolini
Highly Commended	Chase Your Goal	Jayda Gillam
Highly Commended	Stage Fright	Meisha Fagerstrom
Highly Commended	I Wish	Xavier Jennings
Highly Commended	Nana's Maltese Slice	Byron Bell
Highly Commended	My Best Friend	Connor Bartley
Highly Commended	At Night	Benjamin Hobbs
Highly Commended	The Mighty Lion	Melody Stieler
Highly Commended	Forest	Violette Dobbie

 

Broderick Family Award – 11-13 Years	PoemArray ( )	Winner
Equal First Prize	An Ethical Irony	Michael Swift
Grace Longhi	The Mansion That Time Forgot	Equal First Prize
Second Prize	Technology Nation	Emma Chambers
Third Prize	The Tanami	Rafaela Southon

Runners Up
Highly Commended	The Door on The 3rd Floor	Gabriella Gigliotti
Highly Commended	If Only You Knew	Disha Raval
Highly Commended	Sea Change	Hannah Barrie
Highly Commended	Surfing on Waikiki Beach	Alexandra Willcock
Highly Commended	Humanty	Harmony-tree Hansen
Highly Commended	The Broken-Hearted	Mysheka Field

 

Queensland Times Award- 14-15 Years	PoemArray ( )	Winner
First Prize	Picturesque	Aisha Wilson
Second Prize	A Haiku for Ants	Grace Xu
Third Prize	The Start of Leaving	Heidi Leeman

Runners Up
Highly Commended	The Second When Nothing Happened	Penelope Duran
Highly Commended	Megane - Glasses	Grace Xu
Highly Commended	Mother	Grace Xu
Highly Commended	Patchwork Heart	Yehezq'El Schuster
Highly Commended	A Message from the Sky	Grace Xu

 

Ipswich City Council Award – 16-17 Years	PoemArray ( )	Winner
First Prize	How to Write Poetry	Emerson Hurley
Second Prize	First Performance in Leningrad	Emerson Hurley
Third Prize	Her Guitar	Brenda Tan

Runners Up
Highly Commended	We Do Not See the Moon	Maja Vasic
Highly Commended	Echo and Narcissus, the B-Sides	Erika Strehler
Highly Commended	A Yellow Envy	Brenda Tan
Highly Commended	Dead Souls, Pt. III	Emerson Hurley
Highly Commended	Crown of Thorns	Isabel Mitchell

 

Joy Chambers & Reg Grundy Award – Open Age Other Poetry	PoemArray ( )	Winner
First Prize	The Cold Snap	Damen O'Brien
Second Place	Captain Cochlear	Roger Vickery
Third Place	For my Mother	Mark Miller

Runners Up
Highly Commended	The Last Ferry	Jan Iwaszkiewicz
Highly Commended	Pension Day	Roger Vickery
Highly Commended	Giant	Damen O'Brien
Highly Commended	The Cleaving	Glenny Palmer
Highly Commended	Precarious Balance	Damen O'Brien

 

Rosewood Green Award – Open Age Local Poets	PoemArray ( )	Winner
First Prize	Rough Country	David Gagen
Second Prize	Dun Waiting	Maureen Clifford
Third Prize	For King and Country Roads	Maureen Clifford

Runners Up
Highly Commended	Conversations with the Bitch	Leonie Parker

 

2018 Overall Winner & recipient of the Babies of Walloon bronze statuette	PoemArray ( )	Winner
Overall Winner	Damen O'Brien
Overall Winner	Emerson Hurley

 

Ipswich Poetry Feast Encouragement Awards	PoemArray ( )	Winner
5-17 Years	Fishing Ever After	Sophia Brady
Open Age	The Fossicker	Melissa Harrison
School Award	Holy Cross School

 

Picture Ipswich Theme Awards	PoemArray ( )	Winner
First Prize	Golden Reign	Kelly Millar
Second Prize	Tell Me Wellies	Marie McMillan
Third Prize	Fernvale Road Ghosts	Vanessa Page

Runners Up
Highly Commended	Muvvers Instruchins f'r Washin'	Ingrid Mason

 

Metro Hotel Ipswich International Award – Open Age Bush Poetry	PoemArray ( )	Winner
First Prize	Bluey	Tom Mcilveen
Second Prize	Billy Backytin	Glenny Palmer
Third Prize	The Morning Star	Bruce Simpson

Runners Up
Highly Commended	She - Ode to the Wind	Mal Beveridge
Highly Commended	On Alison Bridge	Zillah Williams
Highly Commended	Hearts of the Wattle	Mal Beveridge
Highly Commended	Nothing Much to Tell	Tom Mcilveen

 

River 94.9 Award – 5-7 Years	PoemArray ( )	Winner
First Prize	The Ender Farmer	Leo McNally
Second Prize	The Green Hero	Iris Siu
Third Prize	My Home My Poem	Gabriella Adams

Runners Up
Highly Commended	Little Dog	Shayla Agius
Highly Commended	Little Dog	Jonathan Lawrance
Highly Commended	A Magical Place	Zara Beveridge
Highly Commended	Ghosts	Madeleine Mossley
Highly Commended	Unicorn	Emilia Dorman

 

River 94.9 Award – 5-7 Years	Poem	Winner
First Prize	Eels	Freddy Davey
Second Prize	Night Time	Caterina Falco
Third Prize	Creepers in the Daytime	Leo McNally

Runners Up
Highly Commended	I found a new HOME now	Ariba Omar
Highly Commended	Cars	Zachary Strickfuss
Highly Commended	Waiting for my true friend-not anymore	Ariba Omar
Highly Commended	I am a Bird	Ariba Omar
Highly Commended	Cowry Shell	Holli Lang

 

Ipswich District Teacher Librarian Network Award – 8-10 Years	Poem	Winner
First Prize	Why Willows Weep	Abby Jennings
Second Prize	When Cancer Won	Lillian Crocos
Third Prize	You Are my Star	Sophie Roussos

Runners Up
Highly Commended	The Poppies Shine	Coby Fields
Highly Commended	Shake and Quake	Bridget Warren
Highly Commended	A Night at the Beach	Amelia Sim
Highly Commended	The Chestnut Stallion	Eleanor O’Brien
Highly Commended	Remembering Ipswich	Lilli Williams
Highly Commended	Fury Skies	Clodagh Cowman
Highly Commended	The Water and the Wind	Jackson Martin-Blakey
Highly Commended	The Charge of the Light Horse Brigade	Amelia Sim
Highly Commended	Zoo Family	Olivia Boase
Highly Commended	The Campfire	Arabella Basha
Highly Commended	Colder, Colder, Colder	Amelia Sim
Highly Commended	Winter	Pippa Ellis
Highly Commended	The Never-ending Sahara	Huntar Paterson

 

Broderick Family Award – 11-13 Years	Poem	Winner
First Prize	Red Dress on the Hill	Olivia Priddis
Second Prize	No Time for a Joy Flight	Portia Hoole
Third Prize	Pa’s Tale	Anna Davidson

Runners Up
Highly Commended	Grandma’s Cupboard	Jade Martin
Highly Commended	Sister Sister	Rebecca Linton
Highly Commended	Delicately	Talia Bulstrode
Highly Commended	The Queen of Demons	Rebecca Linton
Highly Commended	Rabbit Proof Fence (Ballad)	Hayley Victor
Highly Commended	My Grandmother’s Masala	Soraiya Munshi
Highly Commended	The Secret Life of a Clock	Rebecca Linton
Highly Commended	The Education Of Lonely	Louis Langoulant

 

Queensland Times Award- 14-15 Years	Poem	Winner
First Prize	Beat Highway	Emerson Hurley
Second Place	Sparks	Jena Woodroffe
Third Place	Marco and Me	Emerson Hurley

Runners Up
Highly Commended	Sp( )ces	Emerson Hurley
Highly Commended	Continuous Places	Emerson Hurley
Highly Commended	The Spoken Unspoken	Heidi Leeman
Highly Commended	Magnetic Aesthetic	Te Aroha Manuel
Highly Commended	*No Title*	Hayden Bradford

 

Ipswich City Council Award – 16-17 Years	Poem	Winner
First Prize	Zipper	Sonya Frossine
Second Prize	Marking of a Printed Title	Sidney Boen
Third Prize	Lament for Bruadair	Clare O’Sullivan

Runners Up
Highly Commended	Commuter’s Requiem	Luke Bradshaw Poier
Highly Commended	The Man from Serayu River, an adaption of Banjo Patterson’s poem ‘The Man from Snowy River’	Emily Bradley
Highly Commended	Outro Requiem	Isabel Longbottom
Highly Commended	Have you heard of the girl who breathes flowers?	Lauren Rawlings
Highly Commended	Mum	Rahim Mohammadi

 

Metro Hotel Ipswich International Award – Open Age Bush Poetry	Poem	Winner
First Prize	The Cynic Route	Kate O’Neil
Second Prize	Up in the Devils Lair	Terry Piggott
Third Prize	The Lady of the Lakes	Terry Piggott

Runners Up
Highly Commended	The Night The Kids Cooked Dinner	Caroline Tuohey
Highly Commended	A Racing Tale	Jim Kent
Highly Commended	The Flags That Fly at Castlebrook	Noel Stallard
Highly Commended	Bandy Bill	Jim Kent
Highly Commended	Real Time Dream Time	Kevin Pye
Highly Commended	Plywood Crosses	Graeme Johnson

 

Joy Chambers & Reg Grundy Award – Open Age Other Poetry	Poem	Winner
First Prize	Flying to Ipswich in the Company of Saint Jackie Howe	Roger Vickery
Second Prize	From the Wreck: Adam Lindsay Gordon 1833-1870	Jeff Guess
Third Place	Endurance	Damen O’Brien

Runners Up
Highly Commended	Along the Red Dirt Road: Drought Country Sequence	Mark Miller
Highly Commended	Appraisal	Damen O’Brien
Highly Commended	Pumpkins and Firewood	Mran-Maree Laing
Highly Commended	An Even Greater Fear	David Campbell
Highly Commended	The Museum	Mran-Maree Laing
Highly Commended	Archives of the Feet	Jena Woodhouse
Highly Commended	Faces in the Sea	Ashfield, Sydney, NSW

 

Chair’s Encouragement Awards	Poem	Winner
5-17 Yrs. Winner	Past	Alyssa Tang
Open Age	Birds Can Heal Through Water	Robert Chapman

 

Picture Ipswich Theme Awards	Poem	Winner
First Prize	Norman Foote Among the Pumpkins	Vanessa Page
Second Prize	Circa 1928	P.S Cottier
Third Prize	An Ode to the F-111	Leonie Parker

Runners Up
Highly Commended	Double Take	Bernadette Whisson
Highly Commended	Outside the Lines	Joe Dolce

 

Chairperson’s School Award	Winner
Winning School	Springfield Central State High School, Springfield Central, QLD

 

2017 Overall Winner & recipient of the Babies of Walloon bronze statuette	Poem	Winner
Overall Winner	Norman Foote Among the Pumpkins	Vanessa Page

 

Rosewood Green Award – Open Age Local Poets	PoemArray ( )	Winner
First Prize	Easter at the Coast	David Gagen
Second Prize	Where is Maggie Thatcher?	Gill Jewell

Runners Up
Third Prize	When Gods Rules the Waves	David Gagen
Highly Commended	Behind a Perspex Screen	Leonie Parker
Highly Commended	War on Terror	Brett Dionysius

 

River 94.9 Award – 5-7 Years	PoemArray ( )	Winner
First Prize	The Library	Christy Davy
Second Prize	The Great Grey Cloud	Isaac Dorman
Third Prize	Playing	Sahil Syed

Runners Up
Highly Commended	I Love Cricket	Mitchell Harte
Highly Commended	Stunt Man	Archie Watts
Highly Commended	The War Stopped	Fergus Forrest
Highly Commended	Surfing Big Waves	Mali Simpson
Highly Commended	Spiders	Philippa Seymour
Highly Commended	Colours	Lucy McGowan

 

Ipswich District Teacher Librarian Network Award – 8-10 Years	PoemArray ( )	Winner
First Prize	Sad Sunflowers	Abby Jennings
Second Prize	To My Dad	Chris Roussos
Third Prize	Dusk	Mia Groom

Runners Up
Highly Commended	Crow	Alexia Leake
Highly Commended	Storm	Jack Beutel
Highly Commended	Into the Circles	Abby Jennings
Highly Commended	The Diggers	Gabriella Gigliotti
Highly Commended	A Poem for the ANZACs	Tadhg Stuckey
Highly Commended	My Favourite Pinball Game	Pippa Ellis
Highly Commended	Winter’s Wipe-Out	Indi Vidler
Highly Commended	The Sea	Dallas Kennedy

 

Ipswich City Council Award – 16-17 Years	PoemArray ( )	Winner
First Prize	Fill the Hole with a Bird	Zoe McDonald
Second Prize	Trouble	Cara Roux
Third Prize	I Do	Freya Cox

Runners Up
Highly Commended	Illuminated	Sarah Martin
Highly Commended	A Place	Rebecca Wang
Highly Commended	11 Years a Punching Bag	Leon Miller
Highly Commended	Forgive me, Time (Thy Rhythmic God)	Chiara Folland
Highly Commended	Reaping	Emma Crisp
Highly Commended	I Don’t Care	Julina Frame

 

Metro Hotel Ipswich International Award – Open Age Bush Poetry	PoemArray ( )	Winner
First Prize	Legacy of a Fool	Catherine Lee
Second Prize	Weapon of Words	Shelley Hansen
Third Prize	Bobby	Tom McIlveen

Runners Up
Highly Commended	How Bluey and Me Joined the Cooee March	Val Wallace
Highly Commended	The Harder Road	Kay Gorring
Highly Commended	Far From Home	David Campbell
Highly Commended	Demons and Lambs	Tom McIlveen
Highly Commended	Harbour of Lost Dreams	Catherine Lee

 

Joy Chambers & Reg Grundy Award – Open Age Other Poetry	PoemArray ( )	Winner
First Prize	Bird Stitcher	Roger Vickery
Second Prize	Colony Collapse Disorder	Damen O’Brien
Third Prize	Disappearance	Roland Leach

Runners Up
Highly Commended	Rock Fisher	Bruce Marshall
Highly Commended	The Mort Street Badlands	Vanessa Page
Highly Commended	“Netsuke” Ivory and Blue	Gill Jewell
Highly Commended	Houses of the Living, Houses of the Dead	Jenny Blackford
Highly Commended	The Cranes	Damen O’Brien

 

Rosewood Green Award – Open Age Local Poets	PoemArray ( )	Winner
First Prize	Grindle Road	Brett Dionysius
Second Prize	A Child Unafraid	Gill Jewell
Third Prize	A d’Arcy Doyle Painting	Leonie Parker

Runners Up
Highly Commended	The Kulning Song	Louisa Janke
Highly Commended	Pot Pourri and Bar Room Roses	Maureen Clifford
Highly Commended	A Time to Dance, a Time to Mourn	Sue Osborn
Highly Commended	A Foot Soldier’s Lament	Gill Jewell

 

Chair’s Encouragement Awards	PoemArray ( )	Winner
5-17 Yrs. Winner	Once	Poppy Bell
Open Age	The Pet Shop	Maree Reedman

 

Ipswich Theme Awards	PoemArray ( )	Winner
5-17 Yrs. Winner	My Home Town	Abbie Graham
Open Age Winner	A d’Arcy Doyle Painting	Leonie Parker

 

Edwards Property Mentorship Award	PoemArray ( )	Winner
	Wandjina	Maureen Clifford

 

Chairperson’s School Award	Winner
	The Springfield Anglican College

 

2016 Overall Winner & recipient of the Babies of Walloon bronze statuette	PoemArray ( )	Winner
	Bird Stitcher	Roger Vickery

 

Broderick Family Award – 11-13 Years	PoemArray ( )	Winner
First Prize	Don’t Tell Me this will Pass	Eden Filbin-Yung
Second Prize	Last of the Peaks	Sara Chapman
Third Prize	Letter from a School Desk	Jordan Howlett-Jones

Runners Up
Highly Commended	Bones	Annie Bond
Highly Commended	Doing it Again	Kate Hudson-James
Highly Commended	Shackled	Brodie Abraham
Highly Commended	Divorce	Leora Adler
Highly Commended	Winter	Charlotte Drynan

 

Queensland Times Award- 14-15 Years	PoemArray ( )	Winner
First Prize	Among the Crosses	Emerson Hurley
Second Prize	They Belong	Emerson Hurley
Third Prize	The Writer	Rebecca Batrouney

Runners Up
Highly Commended	Linger	Emerson Hurley
Highly Commended	Good Morning	Imogen Maher
Highly Commended	Infinity	Hannah Vesey
Highly Commended	The Daughter of the Moon	Grace Nakamura

 

River 94.9 Award – 5-7 Years	PoemArray ( )	Winner
First Prize	Little Chicks	Dakota Holmes
Second Prize	Dance Girl	Bayley Roylance
Third Prize	Let’s Go Nuts!	Charli Pakleppa

Runners Up
Highly Commended	A Little Yellow Bird	Isabella Valinoti
Highly Commended	Frogs	Mitchell Harte
Highly Commended	The Great Big Turtle	Lilli Williams
Highly Commended	At the Beach	Luca Gigliotti

 

Ipswich District Teacher Librarian Network Award – 8-10 Years	PoemArray ( )	Winner
First Prize	This is the Farm	Alexandra O’Brien
Second Prize	Sunset on Bulcock Beach	Abbey O’Toole
Third Prize	Our Town is in a Drought	Aliana Rogers

Runners Up
Highly Commended	Marcus	Marcus Hargrave
Highly Commended	Midnight	Stephanie Rainbow
Highly Commended	Dragons	Isabelle Belt-Cannon
Highly Commended	Hopping Love	Jessica Sellick
Highly Commended	Midnight	Jazz Triggs
Highly Commended	My Family is Talented	Chloe Brook
Highly Commended	My Life	Kavindi Athuraliya
Highly Commended	Jellyfish and Wahoo	Kailani Clifton
Highly Commended	Motor Bikes	Dominic Cafe

 

Broderick Family Award – 11-13 Years	PoemArray ( )	Winner
First Prize	If Only the World was Black and White	Ashleigh Dowling
Second Prize	Thanatos and Elysium	Lewis Orr
Third Prize	Thy Proclivities	Lewis Orr

Runners Up
Highly Commended	To End the Pain	Zoe Wing
Highly Commended	Emptiness	Bronte Schmidt
Highly Commended	If All the World were Water	Ella Watson-Paul
Highly Commended	My Saxophone	Hannah Larsen
Highly Commended	Nervous	Layla Williams

 

Queensland Times Award- 14-15 Years	PoemArray ( )	Winner
First Prize	Kestrel	Brynnie Angharad Rafe
Second Place	Light	Alissa Nowak
Third Place	An Open Letter to God	Grace Vipen

Runners Up
Highly Commended	Our Brave Boys	William Mellor
Highly Commended	My Wish for You	Alexandria Walker
Highly Commended	Orthodoxy is Unconsciousness	Vanessa Eagles

 

Ipswich City Council Award – 16-17 Years	PoemArray ( )	Winner
First Prize	Staring at the Ceiling	Ingrid Brett
Second Prize	Aphelion	Ella Fox-Martens
Third Prize	(An Ode to Guilt)	Melanie Johnson

Runners Up
Highly Commended	Where Do the Birds go?	Freya Cox
Highly Commended	Gone in a Day	Freya Cox
Highly Commended	Remorse	Jemma Payne
Highly Commended	Together	Holly Dignan
Highly Commended	Bookshelf City	Abigail Thomas
Highly Commended	Forgotten Children	Freya Cox

 

Metro Hotel Ipswich International Award – Open Age Bush Poetry	PoemArray ( )	Winner
First Prize	The Pact	Kay Gorring
Second Prize	Empty Beds and Broken Hearts	David Campbell
Third Prize	No Glory Here	Shelley Hansen

Runners Up
Highly Commended	Murray Moon	Brenda Joy
Highly Commended	“Thy Will be Done…”	Brenda Joy
Highly Commended	Mine on Koolan Island	Hugh Allan
Highly Commended	Jack, My Friend	Shelley Hansen

 

Joy Chambers & Reg Grundy Award – Open Age Other Poetry	PoemArray ( )	Winner
First Prize	Predicting a Greensborough Woolworths Sit In	Damen O’Brien
Second Prize	A Wheatfield, Very Yellow	Kate O’Neil
Third Prize	Memorial	Maree Reedman

Runners Up
ighly Commended	Smoke and Stories	Maree Reedman
Highly Commended	What’s Left	Bry Throssell
Highly Commended	Lies about Space	Rafael S.W.
Highly Commended	Bollon on Wallam	Denise Parker
Highly Commended	There’s a Boy Falling	Dancey Gordon
Highly Commended	My Mother and Birds	Jena Woodhouse
Highly Commended	The Privy	Jena Woodhouse
Highly Commended	Mary	Valerie Read
Highly Commended	A Warning	Catherine Lee

 

Rosewood Green Award – Open Age Local Poets	PoemArray ( )	Winner
First Prize	Atlas Shrugged	Brett Dionysius
Second Prize	Beneath Sovereign Pocket	Gill Jewell
Third Prize	No Storm Water Drains	Gill Jewell

Runners Up
Highly Commended	Wedge Tail	Mary McCarthy
Highly Commended	Camp Columbia	Brett Dionysius
Highly Commended	Parrot, Parrot	Mary McCarthy
Highly Commended	Ipswich on the Bremer	Maureen Clifford

 

Chair’s Encouragement Awards	PoemArray ( )	Winner
5-17 Yrs. Winner	The Skyway up to Heaven	Grace Nakamura
Open Age	The Privy	Jena Woodhouse

 

Ipswich Theme Awards	PoemArray ( )	Winner
5-17 Yrs. Winner	I Love Ipswich	Mathew O’Neil
Open Age Winner	Jacaranda	Leonie Parker

 

Edwards Property Mentorship Award	PoemArray ( )	Winner
	Memorial	Maree Reedman

 

Chairperson’s School Award	Winner
	The Springfield Anglican College

 

2015 Overall Winner & recipient of the Babies of Walloon bronze statuette	PoemArray ( )	Winner
	Kay Gorring

 

River 94.9 Award – 5-7 Years	PoemArray ( )	Winner
First Prize	Night Time	Abby Jennings
Second Prize	Something Red	Alex Milne
Third Prize	Running	Bastion Wright

Runners Up
Highly Commended	You Might…	Jarryn Emms
Highly Commended	The Desert	Chloe Goodingham
Highly Commended	The Beach	Olivia Weise
Highly Commended	The Great White Bite	Jarryn Emms

 

Ipswich District Teacher Librarian Network Award – 8-10 Years	PoemArray ( )	Winner
First Prize	The Sea	Cooper Whelan
Second Prize	Minecraft	Sophie Horner
Third Prize	Netball	Cadence Creighton-Jay

Runners Up
Highly Commended	Forest	Gemma Nicol
Highly Commended	The Junior Girls’ Toilets	Grace Finlay
Highly Commended	Sunset Dragon	Alycia Muchiri
Highly Commended	White Tiger	Emily Sopar
Highly Commended	Jacaranda	Ellie Richter

 

Broderick Family Award – 11-13 Years	PoemArray ( )	Winner
First Prize	Happy Holidays!	Charlee Sutherland
Second Prize	Crows	Tiriei Kamide
Third Prize	Stream	Hannah Vesey

Runners Up
Highly Commended	World	Kiara Bell
Highly Commended	Home	Leisl Lucerne-Knight
Highly Commended	Stolen	Lisa Nguyen
Highly Commended	My Grandmother Refuses to Die	Olivia Williams
Highly Commended	The Fascinations of Millinery	Lewis Orr
Highly Commended	Television	Kate Chan
Highly Commended	What I Want to be When I Grow Up	Anna Harisson

 

Queensland Times Award- 14-15 Years	PoemArray ( )	Winner
First Prize	History Rewritten	Ella Fox-Martens
Second Place	The Cry of an African Heart	Erica Emms
Third Place	A Heart’s Desire	Dylan Burgess

Runners Up
Highly Commended	The Beauty within the Beast	Vegini Krishnamoorthy
Highly Commended	Who Dies in the End?	Sara Suk-Udom
Highly Commended	Old Man Winter	Emile Regano
Highly Commended	The Race	Darcie Smith
Highly Commended	Here We Stand Side by Side	Erica Emms
Highly Commended	I Forgive You	Erica Emms
Highly Commended	Yggdrasil	Simone Engele
Highly Commended	The Lady Who Went for Afternoon Walks in High Heels	Emily Parker

 

Ipswich City Council Award – 16-17 Years	PoemArray ( )	Winner
First Prize	Wholly in the Deep	Kate Wilson
Second Prize	Return to Jerusalem	Joshua Dunne
Third Prize	Dear Ma	Gabriella De Oliveira

Runners Up
Highly Commended	Indigo Shadows	Tessa Campisi
Highly Commended	Across the Seas	Tessa Campisi
Highly Commended	A Trojan Elegy	Joshua Dunne
Highly Commended	Verging upon Virgil	Emma Hartley
Highly Commended	Marri Yatarla	Meg Stroud
Highly Commended	Fruit Bats at Lockyer Crescent	Serena Green
Highly Commended	Junk Dragon	Luka Zubcic
Highly Commended	Little Girls	Emily Eastwell

 

Metro Hotel Ipswich International Award – Open Age Bush Poetry	PoemArray ( )	Winner
First Prize	A Lesson in Life	Shelley Hansen
Second Prize	In the Wake of the Deluge	Brenda Joy
Third Prize	The Untold Story	Leonie Parker

Runners Up
Highly Commended	How Long Will We Cry?	Kevin Pye
Highly Commended	Fire at Dawson’s Run	Catherine Lee
Highly Commended	The Tale of Molly Riley	Catherine Lee
Highly Commended	The Property	Susan Sommerlad
Highly Commended	100 Years Since Anzac	Jim Cosgrove

 

Joy Chambers & Reg Grundy Award – Open Age Other Poetry	PoemArray ( )	Winner
First Prize	Ashes to Ashes	David Campbell
Second Prize	Sunflowers at Wilcannia	Kate O’Neil
Third Prize	Goddess	John Egan

Runners Up
Highly Commended	Hire Education	Will Moody
Highly Commended	Brother Wool	Janeen Brian
Highly Commended	Adhesive	Roland Leach
Highly Commended	Still Life	David Campbell
Highly Commended	Diptych: This Winter Beach	Mark Miller
Highly Commended	Without the Definite	Marjorie Lewis-Jones
Highly Commended	For Those Just Starting Out	Bruce Marshall
Highly Commended	Square of Yellow Light	Roland Leach

 

Rosewood Green Award – Open Age Local Poets	PoemArray ( )	Winner
First Prize	Dementia, the Demon with a Sneeze	Ingrid Mason
Second Prize	Happiness	Kenneth Weaver
Third Prize	A Survey of Community Fireworks	Scott Thouard

Runners Up
Highly Commended	The Backyard Brothers	Marcus Richardson
Highly Commended	Flat-headed Catfish	Brett Dionysius
Highly Commended	My Mother Sewed for Me	Wendy Davies

 

Chair’s Encouragement Awards	PoemArray ( )	Winner
5-17 Yrs. Winner	Uncle George	Sunseria Vestey
Open Age	People Like Us	Susan Sommerlad

 

Ipswich Theme Awards	PoemArray ( )	Winner
Open Age Winner	Flood Warning – 1974	Fran Nicolaou-Wilmot

 

Edwards Property Mentorship Award	PoemArray ( )	Winner
	Aurora Australis	Anne Reardon

 

Chairperson’s School Award	Winner
	St. Mary's College

 

2014 Overall Winner & recipient of the Babies of Walloon bronze statuette	Winner
	Shelley Hansen

 

River 94.9 Award – 5-7 Years	PoemArray ( )	Winner
First Prize	The Under Water City	Mya Smith
Second Prize	The Frilled Neck Lizard	Henry Blackledge
Third Prize	Summer	Ella Tronc

Runners Up
Highly Commended	I want to be a Palaeontologist	Ethan Peno
Highly Commended	When I Grow Up	Chloe Goodingham
Highly Commended	Koalas	Carmen Oxenford
Highly Commended	Tim Tams	Jessica Gray
Highly Commended	The Platypus and the Croc	Harrison Rapmund
Highly Commended	Our Trip to Girraween	Kailani Clifton

 

Ipswich District Teacher Librarian Network Award – 8-10 Years	PoemArray ( )	Winner
First Prize	Tiny Seed	Sarah Bown
Second Prize	The Wolves are Howling	Hannah Johnston
Third Prize	Little Brothers	Grace Finlay

Runners Up
Highly Commended	Aussie Nature	William Rea
Highly Commended	Family Tree	Astrid Cahill
Highly Commended	The Turtle Race	Aedyn Duffy
Highly Commended	Painting Peace	Grace Finlay
Highly Commended	Lucas	Riley Granzien
Highly Commended	No Grow	Jaxan Rackley
Highly Commended	Books	Sunny Thomas
Highly Commended	Barbie	Isabella Weise

 

Queensland Times Award – 11-13 Years	PoemArray ( )	Winner
First Prize	Evangeline	Grace Nakamura
Second Prize	Open Grave	Isabella Sheehan
Third Prize	The Bushfire Brumbies	Eva Marsh

Runners Up
Highly Commended	The Ode of a Ghost	Erin Burge
Highly Commended	War	Isabella Sheehan
Highly Commended	Then Night	Munashe Mutambi
Highly Commended	I Pick Up the Stick	Eddie Newman
Highly Commended	The Book of Forgotten Words	Samantha George
Highly Commended	Dog Bath Blues	Peta Vanlieshout
Highly Commended	Horses	Emma-Jane Emms
Highly Commended	Jelly	Emma-Jane Emms
Highly Commended	Hey Echidna	Harmony Schloss
Highly Commended	Soup	Emma-Jane Emms

 

Broderick Family Award – 14-15 Years	PoemArray ( )	Winner
First Prize	The Wolf Understood	Emma Hartley
Second Prize	And It's Alice	Emma Hartley
Third Prize	The River	Tamara Livingstone

Runners Up
Highly Commended	Women of Arachne	Emma Hartley
Highly Commended	Suburban Storm	Rosie McCrossin
Highly Commended	Snail	Elena Bonetto
Highly Commended	Time	Shayla Parsons
Highly Commended	Tents and Campfires	Miriam Waldron
Highly Commended	Untitled	Stevie Tucker
Highly Commended	Things	Paige Spence
Highly Commended	School Lessons	Arrabella Armstrong

 

Ipswich City Council Award – 16-17 Years	PoemArray ( )	Winner
First Prize	No Time for Skipping Stones	Christine Collier
Second Prize	Children in Kansas Know What to Do	Siobhan Deacon
Third Prize	Red Sky in the Morning	Serena Green

Runners Up
Highly Commended	A Forgotten Persia	Emily Byrne
Highly Commended	Verlang	Reinette Roux
Highly Commended	Warmth	Rosaleen Cooney
Highly Commended	Descendant	Samantha Brenz-Verca
Highly Commended	Design	Joshua Murray
Highly Commended	Black Coffee for Breakfast?	Ellie Burton
Highly Commended	Shades of Red, White and Grey	Sean Adcock
Highly Commended	Express Yourself	Hania Syed

 

Metro Hotel Ipswich International Award – Open Age Bush Poetry	PoemArray ( )	Winner
First Prize	Waiting	Catherine Lee
Second Prize	A Feather in a Locket	Robyn Sykes
Third Prize	A Victim of War	Tom McIlveen

Runners Up
Highly Commended	A Little Silver Locket	Allan Goode
Highly Commended	Aussies	Bessie Jennings
Highly Commended	The Jumbuck Drama Club	Shelley Hansen
Highly Commended	Said You Could Fly	Arthur Green
Highly Commended	Two Wars	Yvonne Harper

 

Joy Chambers & Reg Grundy Award – Open Age Other Poetry	PoemArray ( )	Winner
First Prize	Slow Train Coming	John Egan
Second Prize	The Ghost of Bennelong	Spencer Ratcliff
Third Prize	Skin	David Campbell

Runners Up
Highly Commended	Meditations on Walking (after reading the rules)	Chris Armstrong
Highly Commended	The Hazards	Vanessa Page
Highly Commended	Twenty-Four Varieties of Flowers	Rory Hudson
Highly Commended	Opening Night	John Egan
Highly Commended	Lewin's Honeyeater	Brett Dionysius
Highly Commended	Lovesong of the International Management Consultant	Roger Vickery
Highly Commended	The Voice of Bunjil	Spencer Ratcliff
Highly Commended	Embarkation – 1914	Sue Bailey

 

Rosewood Green Award – Open Age Local Poets	PoemArray ( )	Winner
First Prize	Jacaranda Street	Damen O'Brien
Second Prize	Eight Embraces	Julie Lynch
Third Prize	Robowars at the "Swich"	Scott Thouard

Runners Up
Highly Commended	Bomb	Brett Dionysius
Highly Commended	Little Brisbane	Caitlin Prouatt
Highly Commended	The Elixir	Damen O'Brien
Highly Commended	Fishing	Maureen Clifford

 

Chair’s Encouragement Awards	PoemArray ( )	Winner
5-17 Yrs. Winner	Black Coffee for Breakfast?	Ellie Burton
Open Age	My Dad is an Alcoholic	Melanie Gilchrist
	Ipswich Grammar School	School

 

Ipswich Theme Awards	PoemArray ( )	Winner
5-17 Yrs. Winner	A Walk through Ipswich	Majella Pearl
Open Age Winner	The Legacy Lives On	Brenda Joy

 

Edwards Property Mentorship Award	PoemArray ( )	Winner
	The Elixir	Damen O'Brien

 

2013 Overall Winner & recipient of the Babies of Walloon bronze statuette	Winner
	Damen O'Brien