Below are the winners of Ballarat Writers competitions from previous years.
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Pamela Miller Prize
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Southern Cross Short Story Competition
2025 Winner: Kit Scriven with The Transaction
2023 Winner: Maxwell Han with A Boy in a Raincoat and a Boy in a Bus Stop
2021 Winner: Benjamin Forbes with Wheeler
2019 Winner: Jacqueline Winn with The Remains
2017 Winner: Suzannah Churchman with The Man with the Dolphin Teeth
2015 Winner: Anne Myers with the drowning sound
Martha Richardson Memorial Poetry Prize
2024 Winner: Cassandra Arnold with To Map a Myth
2022 Winner: Nathan Curnow with Every Heart Sings Ballarat
2020 Winner: Nathan Curnow with Bee Hives at Night
2018 Winner: Janine McGinness-Whyte with Transplanted
2016 Winner: Vanessa Page with Christmas Day in Harlaxton
2014 Winner: Vanessa Page with Something old, something new