2017 Winners
| 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 | Poem | 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 |
2016 Winners
| River 94.9 Award – 5-7 Years | Poem | 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 | Poem | 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 | Poem | 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 | Poem | 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 | Poem | 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 | Poem | 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 | Poem | Winner |
|---|---|---|
| 5-17 Yrs. Winner | Once | Poppy Bell |
| Open Age | The Pet Shop | Maree Reedman |
| Ipswich Theme Awards | Poem | Winner |
|---|---|---|
| 5-17 Yrs. Winner | My Home Town | Abbie Graham |
| Open Age Winner | A d’Arcy Doyle Painting | Leonie Parker |
| Edwards Property Mentorship Award | Poem | Winner |
|---|---|---|
| Wandjina | Maureen Clifford |
| Chairperson’s School Award | Winner | |
|---|---|---|
| The Springfield Anglican College | ||
| 2016 Overall Winner & recipient of the Babies of Walloon bronze statuette | Poem | Winner |
|---|---|---|
| Bird Stitcher | Roger Vickery |
| Broderick Family Award – 11-13 Years | Poem | 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 | Poem | 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 |
2015 Winners
| River 94.9 Award – 5-7 Years | Poem | 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 | Poem | 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 | Poem | 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 | Poem | 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 | Poem | 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 | Poem | 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 | Poem | 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 | Poem | 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 | Poem | Winner |
|---|---|---|
| 5-17 Yrs. Winner | The Skyway up to Heaven | Grace Nakamura |
| Open Age | The Privy | Jena Woodhouse |
| Ipswich Theme Awards | Poem | Winner |
|---|---|---|
| 5-17 Yrs. Winner | I Love Ipswich | Mathew O’Neil |
| Open Age Winner | Jacaranda | Leonie Parker |
| Edwards Property Mentorship Award | Poem | Winner |
|---|---|---|
| Memorial | Maree Reedman |
| Chairperson’s School Award | Winner | |
|---|---|---|
| The Springfield Anglican College | ||
| 2015 Overall Winner & recipient of the Babies of Walloon bronze statuette | Poem | Winner |
|---|---|---|
| Kay Gorring | ||
2014 Winners
| River 94.9 Award – 5-7 Years | Poem | 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 | Poem | 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 | Poem | 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 | Poem | 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 | Poem | 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 | Poem | 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 | Poem | 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 | Poem | 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 | Poem | Winner |
|---|---|---|
| 5-17 Yrs. Winner | Uncle George | Sunseria Vestey |
| Open Age | People Like Us | Susan Sommerlad |
| Ipswich Theme Awards | Poem | Winner |
|---|---|---|
| Open Age Winner | Flood Warning – 1974 | Fran Nicolaou-Wilmot |
| Edwards Property Mentorship Award | Poem | 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 | ||
2013 Winners
| River 94.9 Award – 5-7 Years | Poem | 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 | Poem | 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 | Poem | 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 | Poem | 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 | Poem | 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 | Poem | 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 | Poem | 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 | Poem | 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 | Poem | 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 | Poem | Winner |
|---|---|---|
| 5-17 Yrs. Winner | A Walk through Ipswich | Majella Pearl |
| Open Age Winner | The Legacy Lives On | Brenda Joy |
| Edwards Property Mentorship Award | Poem | Winner |
|---|---|---|
| The Elixir | Damen O'Brien |
| 2013 Overall Winner & recipient of the Babies of Walloon bronze statuette | Winner | |
|---|---|---|
| Damen O'Brien | ||