This year, we received over 130 entries across both categories for the Honi Soit Writing Competition, many of which were of outstanding quality. The winners were announced on 16 May at Verge Gallery.
A special thank you to Sarah M Saleh and Naaman Zhou, our fiction and non-fiction judges.
Fiction Winners:
1st Place: Seascapes by Cate Chapman
2nd Place: GOODBYE-VACATION by Kalli Hardy
3rd Place: I’m a Girl Again by Charlotte Ghanoum
Editors Choice: Scenes from a Bathroom by Isaac Hogarth
Fiction Shortlist:
Cargo Cockroach by Dunja Dundic
Obituary by Ngoc Thuan Anh Huynh
The Absence of Paolo by Isabel Ritchie
my mother once a girl by Laura Pannell
Circadia by Emilie Garcia-Dolnik
On the Threshold of a Dream by Ira Friedberg
Non Fiction Winners:
1st Place: Gaze of the Grapefruit Satellite by Zoe Le Marinel
2nd Place: Grandad’s Lessons by Elliot Lync
3rd Place: Artificial Sensibility by David He
Editors Choice: Making Room for Unfairness by Katerina Kuo
Non Fiction Shortlist:
Neocolonialism and its Discontents by Jayden Nguyen
In Place by Ava Broinowski
Dear World, Please Let Me Fall Behind by Veronica Lenard
On Non-Photography: A Snapchat Story by Ira Friedberg
Home/body by Steph Chiang