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The 2021 Furphy Literary Awards Open and Youth Winners

Greater Shepparton City Council in partnership with the Furphy Foundation, Latrobe University and the GV Library Group are excited to announce this year’s Furphy Literary Awards recipients.

Congratulations to the following writers. The finalist entries from each category are available to read as of Saturday 14 August on the Furphy Literary Awards website.

2021 Furphy Literary Award Open

 

 

Place:

Author:

Title:

Winner

Thomas Alan

Oranges

Second

Michelle Prak

Holden

Third

Andrew Roff

No Good Deed

 

2021 Furphy Literary Award
Junior Short Story

 

 

 

Place:

Author:

Title:

School:

First

Lila Plunkett

Ash and Embers

Goulburn Valley Grammar

Second

Fletcher Davies

Who Would have Thought?  

Home Educated

Third

Lila Plunkett

Pearls

Goulburn Valley Grammar

 

2021 Furphy Literary Award
Junior Poetry

 

 

 

Place:

Author:

Title:

School:

First

Darcy Mintern

A Hopeful Dream

Grahamavale Primary

Second

Riley Wooster

Surf’s Up

Shepparton East Primary

Equal Third

Errol Rose

At Breakfast

Home Educated

Equal Third

Idylla Damien

Orchard

Bourchier Street Primary

2021 Furphy Literary Award
Youth Poetry

 

 

 

Place:

Author:

Title:

School

First

Zoe De Paola

Fading

Goulburn Valley Grammar

Second

Hailey Moffat

Dead City

Goulburn Valley Grammar

Third

Keara Devine

For Him with Love

Greater Shepparton Secondary College

  

2021 Furphy Literary Award
Youth Short Story

 

 

 

Place:

Author:

Title:

School:

First

Kai Easterbrook

Permanence

Benalla Flexible Learning Centre

Second

Erin Hicks

A Precious Gift

Goulburn Valley Grammar

Third

Cadence Pang

Doll

Cobram Anglican Grammar

Furphy Literary Award director Sam Furphy said the calibre of entries was again outstanding this year. 

“We are so pleased to receive such a strong number of entries from across the Goulburn Valley and more encouraged than ever to provide this important platform for young writers and poets to share their creative skills and talents.

The finalist entries from each category will be available to read from Saturday 14 August on the Furphy Literary Awards website. 

FLA Director Adam Furphy explained The Furphy Literary Award is working towards an annual publication of an anthology of selected works from entries submitted each year. 

“Now that the judging has been completed and the results announced we are thrilled to be able to publish the finalist works on our website and share them with a wider audience.  We are looking forward to bringing out an anthology of works which we intend will be an annual publication and which will celebrate Australian storytelling.”  

Greater Shepparton City Council Mayor Councillor Kim O’Keeffe congratulated all for submitting entries.

“Council is honoured to be able to support the Furphy Literary Awards and we applaud everyone who has been involved to make sure these awards continued throughout the challenges we continue to face through COVID-19,” Cr O’Keeffe said.

“Congratulations to our finalists and winners of the 2021 Furphy Literary Awards, thank you for sharing your story. I encourage members of our community to have a read of the finalist entries online and hopefully they will inspire more writers to pick up a pen or sit in front of a keyboard.”

For more information visit furphystory.

 

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