Northern Territory Literary Awards
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The winners of each section were announced at a ceremony at Northern Territory Library on 16 May 2013. View video footage of 2013 Literary Awards ceremony.
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Winners 2013 NT Literary Awards
| Northern Territory Literary Award Category | Winning Entry and Author |
| ZipPrint Short Story Award | Lois Murphy Responsible |
| NT Writers’ Centre Poetry Award | Kaye Aldenhoven Five memories from the end of a life |
| Kath Manzie Youth Award | Juliette Parsons Change Takes a Change |
| Birch Carroll & Coyle Performance Script Award | Sarah Hope The Hoist |
| Charles Darwin University Travel Short Story Award | Natalie Sprite It feels like happiness |
| Charles Darwin University Essay Award | Glenn Morrison No direction home: Race and belonging in a frontier town |
Shortlisted Finalists for 2013:
| SHORT STORIES | |
|---|---|
| Kerry Taylor | Flag of Surrender |
| Josh Cameron | From Where I Thought You Would Appear |
| Dani Powell | whitefellas give what they would otherwise throw away |
| Lois Murphy | Responsible |
| Fiona McKean | Water |
| James Murray | The Funeral |
YOUTH | |
| Kierra-Jay Power | The man on the radio sings of survivor-seat blues |
| Morgan Gurry | The Last Thylacine |
| Juliette Parsons | Up in the Clouds |
| Juliette Parsons | Change Takes a Change |
POETRY | |
| Jo Dutton | Made in Alice |
| Kaye Aldenhoven | Five memories from the end of a life |
| Sue Fielding | Finale |
| Sue Fielding | My great-aunt’s hands |
| Lindsay Johannsen | My Lying Bedroom Mirror |
| Karina Brabham | family shapes |
| Michael Giacometti | Atweme atweme / Hit kill |
PERFORMANCE SCRIPT | |
| Sarah Hope | The Hoist |
| Thomas Midena | Groovy Green |
TRAVEL STORY | |
| Rod Kennett | The Final Act – Salmon watching in the Fraser |
| Barbara Eather | Wanting to Sing |
| Melinda Barlow | Berlin Daze |
| Natalie Sprite | It feels like happiness |
ESSAYS | |
| Michael Giacometti | A desert turned into a desert |
| Glenn Morrison | No direction home: Race and belonging in a frontier town |
Thanks to sponsors: - Charles Darwin University
- Kath Manzie Estate
- Birch Carroll & Coyle
- Australian Writers Guild
- ZipPrint
- Southern Cross Television
- Territory FM
The Awards endeavour to cultivate a prosperous creative writing industry in the Northern Territory by recognising great talent; they have a further aim of fostering and inspiring a new generation of writers.
Entrants can request access to judges’ feedback after the Awards ceremony by email to libraryevents@nt.gov.au. Feedback is provided with the aim of further encouraging and nurturing emerging talent.
The Northern Territory Library is proud to act as custodian of these awards which acknowledge written works of outstanding literary merit and reward the achievements of Northern Territory writers. The aims of the awards closely align with the Northern Territory Library’s crucial objective of promoting greater literacy through the ‘telling of stories’ to entertain and inspire.