The Society of Women Writers Tasmania’s Robyn Mathieson Poetry Prize 2022

Thrilled to receive 3rd place for Doves - a poem about wanting to o achieve peace

Then, in the same competition received ‘Recommended’ for Feathering

- a three line poem reflecting calm

I work on the theory, you have to submit to achieve success. Here's some that caught the judges eye.

2010 04Charlotte Duncan Award - Jake's New Friend – Children's story - Shortlisted

2011 10Scribblegum - Gum Leaves Competition - Shadows of Remembered Dancing - Highly Commended

2012 Golden Wattle Writing Comp - Honest People - Honourable Mention

2012 Yarram Community Learning Centre Annual Literary Competition 2012 - Purple - FIRST

2012 Minlaton Show - Wide Brown Land - FIRST

2012 Stringybark Flash and Microfiction Awards - To Fill the Heart - Highly Recommended - top 5% of 345

2013 Raspberry & Vine Short Story Competition - By Darkened Shore - Shortlisted

2013 City of Gosnells A Moment in Time Photographic Competition - The Miscarriage - Poem - Highly Commended

2014 Yarram Community Learning Centre Annual Literary Competition - Poetry - Old Enough for War – Highly Commended

2015 Geelong Writers Flash Fiction Writing Competition - The Colour of Courage - Anthology inclusion

2016 08In My View - Autumn Pain - Story published in photographic book

2016 08 Serenity Press - Ribbons of Love - Publication in anthology - 2017 - also published as a novelette

2017 10 The Port Stephens Literature Awards 2017 - A Farthing Will Do - Commended

2017 10 In My View - Speck - Story published in photographic book

2017 11 The Student Wordsmith - Daggers of Language - Poetry - Shortlisted On line

2018 10In My View - After the Film - Poem published in photographic book

2018 10FAWQ - Honest People - Highly Commended

2018 10FAWQ - Windowsill - Commended

2019 10In My View - Looking for My Sunshine - Story published in photographic book

2020 10 Poetica Christi Press - Sand Between My Toes - Included in anthology

2020 10 In My View - A Pair of Monkeys - Story published in photographic book

2021 07 AudioA - Mumma’s Dying - One of 10 in publication

2021 12 WriteTime - Time Pays No Heed - Anthology inclusion

2022 Kind of a Hurricane Press - Let It Rain / Gold / Miracles in the Sand - accepted for publication

2022 KSP Spooky Stories anthology - Believe - shortlist and inclusion

2022 SWWTas competition - Feathering - Recommended

2022 SWWTas competition - Doves - 3rd place

2023 KSP Spooky Stories anthology - Come Back - shortlisted and inclusion

2023 Ginninderra Press Crow publication - Forever Dancing - inclusion

Barbara Gurney