Forty South: Tasmanian Writers Prize 2018 Winners announced …

Lucinda Sharp DIRECTOR, Forty South Publishing Pty Ltd
Please see below for the winner and finalists for the Tasmanian Writers’ Prize 2018.

Once again we had entries from all round Australia and New Zealand and our judges, Robbie Arnott, James Dryburgh and Lian Tanner, have selected 10 stories for publication in the 2018 anthology.

The winning story “Boy”, by Melissa Manning, will appear in Issue 89 of Tasmania 40° South magazine (due out in mid-June) along with the complete list of winners. All finalists’ stories will be published in the Forty South Short Story Anthology 2018.

The anthology will be launched by Lian Tanner at the Tamar Valley Writers Festival, 14-16 September, 2018. The launch, on Saturday 15 September, 5.15pm, is a ticketed event but all finalists will be given free entry and invited to be part of a panel discussion.

Visit the festival website for to find out more about this fabulous festival – www.tamarvalleywritersfestival.com.au – I hope you can all attend.

Congratulations to the winner and finalists. Many thanks to all those who entered – your support is vital to the continuation of our competition and I encourage you to enter again in 2019.

Winner
Boy | Melissa Manning (VIC)

Melissa is a writer of short and long form fiction. Her work has appeared in several publications, including Award Winning Australian Writing, Best Small Fictions (US), Overland, and The Big Issue. She won the 2015 Overland Story Wine Prize, and has placed or been shortlisted in other competitions, including the Overland VU Short Story Award and the Bath Flash Fiction Award. Her novel manuscripts have earned her support through the Varuna Residency Fellowship, and the ACT Writers’ Centre HARDCOPY program. She is currently working on a short story collection with the support of an ASA Emerging Writers’ Mentorship funded by the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund.