My travel story Snails in the Mist about a group of friends walking New Zealand’s Milford Track, has won the Lane Cove Literary Awards’ Burns Bay Bookery Prize for 2019. The Lane Cove Literary Awards are open to writers around Australia.
It was also shortlisted and highly commended in the Travel story prize (won by Marian McGuinness for her piece, On First Seeing Antarctica) and was shortlisted in two other categories.
You can read it here: http://ecouncil.lanecove.nsw.gov.au/TRIM/documents_TE/66148069/TRIM_Winner%20Lane%20Cove%20Literary%20Awards%202019%20The%20Burns%20Bay%20Bookery%20Resident%20Prize%20Snails%20in%20the%20Mist%20by%20Alison%20Stewart_1387238.PDF
Winners were announced at an Awards Ceremony held on Thursday 14 November 2019 at Lane Cove Library.
Lane Cove Library will publish an anthology of shortlisted and winning entries, which will be available in mid-2020.
Here is a list of the winners:
- Short Story Prize – Death by Prawning by Marian McGuinness
- Travel Story Prize – On First Seeing Antarctica by Marian McGuinness
- Poetry Prize – (Mer)man-made Tide by Dave Drayton
- The Burns Bay Bookery Resident Prize – Snails in the Mist by Alison Stewart
- Len Wallis Audio Youth Prize (16 – 24 years) – Feeling with Fingertips by Jessie Pearson
- The Baytree by Ardency Senior Prize (65+ years) – Moss Poem by Janice Dean
About alisonstewartwriter
Alison is a writer, journalist and travel writer, born in South Africa, now living in Australia. She has had nine books published - two books for adults and seven for young people. Four of them have been translated into Italian, Danish, Dutch and Thai.
Her latest project, Cold Stone Soup, an unpublished memoir about growing up under apartheid and migrating to Australia has won the FAW 2013 National Literary Awards (Jim Hamilton Award for a non-fiction manuscript). Cold Stone Soup was also runner-up in the 2010 Penguin/Varuna Scholarship.
Her first book for adults, Born Into the Country (Justified Press 1988, South Africa) was shortlisted for the 1987 AA Mutual Life Vita Young Writers’ Award. Heinemann Australia published her next adult novel, Bitterbloom in 1991. Her YA novel, The Wishing Moon was shortlisted for the 1995 Australian Multicultural Children’s Award and was a 1995 Children’s Book Council Notable book.
Her YA dystopia, Days Like This, published by Penguin Australia was a finalist in the inaugural 2010 Amazon/Penguin Breakthrough Novel Award in the YA category.
Alison worked for years as a news and feature journalist. She is now a regular travel writer for The Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne Age and online Fairfax Media publications. Her travel story, Snails in the Mist, was placed first in the Lane Cove Literary Awards 2019 travel story category and was shortlisted for three awards. Snails in the Mist will be published in the Lane Cove Literary Awards Anthology in 2020.
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