HARNESSING words and inspiration to create worlds through story and verse, the Junior and Youth category winners for the 2023 Furphy Literary Awards have been announced!
Drawing an excited audience of over 150 people to the Shepparton Library on Sunday, July 30, this year’s winners were selected from over 200 hundred entries.
The Adviser would like to heartily congratulate the below winners in each category as well as acknowledge the efforts of each young entrant who bravely put pen to paper for this year’s competition because there is perhaps no greater importance than being able to ‘think through one’s fingers’ as you write to create!
2023 Furphy Literary Award winners
Junior Poetry
First Milo Rose, Ode to my Mum’s Spaghetti Bolognese
Second Riley Wooster, Heavens Above
Third Mollie Chambers, Floods
Junior Short Story
First Nina Samalca , The Abominable Hairball
Second Ariana Kutrolli , Denise the Menace
Third Heidi Gilbert, Dead Girl Walking
Youth Poetry
First Senthil Kumar, Ravens Bring Lavender
Second Jenna Birchall, Spun Through Time
Third Dorothy Lune, The Last Confession
Youth Short Story
First Imogen Templeton, Here
Second Layla O’Callaghan Her
Third Charlotte Seddon, The Taxi Man
