{"id":3721,"date":"2026-05-19T04:42:50","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T04:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/?p=3721"},"modified":"2026-05-19T04:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T04:46:10","slug":"nillumbik-prize-for-contemporary-writing-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/nillumbik-prize-for-contemporary-writing-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Writing 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lovely to note <a href=\"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/Kristyn-J-Saunders-Slipstream.html\">Kristyn J. Saunders<\/a> is the winner of the Local Entry Category for the poetry section of this year&#8217;s prize.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nillumbik.vic.gov.au\/Explore\/Arts-and-culture\/Opportunities-for-artists\/Nillumbik-Prize-for-Contemporary-Writing\">Prize winners, along with highly commended writers and poets<\/a> \u2014<\/p>\n<h3>Short Story<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Winner Open Category<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Flight<\/em> by Terry Donnelly (VIC)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Winner Local Category<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Protective<\/em> <em>Measures&nbsp;<\/em>by Carmel Macdonald Grahame (VIC)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Winner Youth Category<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Burning<\/em> <em>Cedar<\/em> by Matilda Mayson (NSW)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Winner Mayor\u2019s Prize<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Footfalls<\/em> <em>Echo<\/em> <em>in<\/em> <em>the<\/em> <em>Memory<\/em> by Charlotte Elizabeth Chidell (VIC)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Highly Commended&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>Open Category<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Driving with Goats<\/em> by Claire Aman (NSW)<\/p>\n<p><em>Damages<\/em> by Hannah Duffus (VIC)<\/p>\n<p><em>Busting<\/em> by Kristen Tytler (VIC)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Highly Commended Local Category<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Milkmouth<\/em> by Maggie Januloska (VIC)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Highly<\/strong> <strong>Commended Youth Category<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The<\/em> <em>Fencer<\/em> by Winter Kuhaupt (VIC)<\/p>\n<p><em>Her<\/em> by Kelsey Beck (QLD)<\/p>\n<p><em>Gate<\/em> <em>62<\/em> by Ayaan Mohiuddin (VIC)<\/p>\n<p><em>The<\/em> <em>Bird<\/em> <em>and<\/em> <em>the<\/em> <em>Worm<\/em> by Jenny Wright (WA)<\/p>\n<h3>Poetry<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Winner Open Category<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Visit<\/em> <em>to<\/em> <em>the<\/em> <em>Columbarium<\/em> by Richenda Rudman (VIC)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Winner Local Category<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Over There<\/em> by Kristyn J. Saunders (VIC)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Winner Youth Category<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Our<\/em> <em>Candid<\/em> <em>Colosseum<\/em> by Raihan Ameur (VIC)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Highly Commended Open Category<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Sorry<\/em> <em>Time<\/em> by Brenda Saunders (NSW)<\/p>\n<p><em>Contrapuntal<\/em> <em>Facing<\/em> <em>Houla,<\/em> <em>Southern<\/em> <em>Lebanon<\/em> by D\u017eenana Vucic (VIC)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Highly Commended Local Category<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Ulupna<\/em> <em>Island<\/em> <em>(Non-)Elegy<\/em> by Anders Villani (VIC)<\/p>\n<p><em>Memory<\/em> <em>Like<\/em> <em>Dory<\/em> by Fee Sievers (VIC)<\/p>\n<p><em>Undoing<\/em> by Zana Fraillon (VIC)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Highly Commended Youth Category<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Riding<\/em> by Bruce Ru (NSW)<\/p>\n<p><em>Ceiseag<\/em> by Eartha Davis (VIC)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lovely to note Kristyn J. Saunders is the winner of the Local Entry Category for the poetry section of this year&#8217;s prize. Prize winners, along with highly commended writers and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/nillumbik-prize-for-contemporary-writing-2026\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Writing 2026&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[141,416,2,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards","category-nillumbik-prize-for-contemporary-writing","category-poetry","category-saunders-kristyn-j"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3721"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3723,"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3721\/revisions\/3723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}