2025 Writing Award Winners
Page Turner Awards is delighted to announce our 2025 Writing Award Winners!
Please join us in congratulating these rising stars.
2025 Writing Award Winners:
- Annemieke Waite won the Page Turner Writing Award for her submission, As the Tree Falls.
As the Tree Falls achieves the rare balance of literary quality, emotional immediacy, and story propulsion. This story combines the best of all three special scores: beautiful language, strong plotting, and a living, breathing heroine. It’s the full package.
Sub-Category Winners:
- James Moran won the Writing Mentorship Award for his submission, Delphi
- Jane Bitomsky won Best Title for her submission, Tinder for Grans
- Stephen Bridger won the Best True Unpublished Story for his submission, Children of the House of God
- Miaoyin Guan won the Young Writer Award for her submission, Things I Never Told My Mother
- Karin Maatman won the Golden Writer Award for her submission, U.W.A.P.
Special Writing Award Winners:
Character Architect Award - for the most compelling character, won by Jane Bitomsky for A Foundlings Lot
Wordsmith Award - for the most beautiful prose, won by Lily Lu for The Shadow-Marked Druid
Storyteller Award - for the most storytelling potential, won by Kate Heaphy for Waves of Black Gold
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Annemieke Waite for "As the Tree Falls"
Story lover, planner and plotter. Author of 'As the Tree Falls', and winner of the 2025 Page Turner Writing Award. When I’m not wandering through imagined landscapes, I serve as a District Councillor and Cabinet Member for Planning and Environment, helping to shape the places people call home. Both
Stephen Bridger for "Children of the House of God"
Late starter. Spent most of my time working in hospitals, bringing up a family, and in the occasional down times, running, reading and co-authoring science and medical papers - over 50 published, but none of major significance. Started writing fiction in May 2022 - currently writing fourth book
Kate Heaphy for "Waves of Black Gold"
Kate is a conservation ecologist from New Zealand with a passion for writing and storytelling. Over the past decade, she has worked in various environmental roles from contracting to consulting to research. She holds degrees in various aspects of the natural and physical sciences, and is currently
Karin Maatman for "U.W.A.P."
Karin is an autistic mathematician, and writer of science fiction, fantasy and thrillers. After twelve moves within the Netherlands, Luxembourg, France and the UK, she settled in the Garden of England (a.k.a. Kent). As a writer/reader, she is passionate about diversity – any kind – but, more than
Jane Bitomsky for "A Foundling's Lot "
Jane lives in New Zealand with her young family. She has a PhD in early modern English history, a BA (Hons) and an LLB (Hons) from the University of Queensland. She has published in academic journals, and is a volunteer baker for NZ charity Good Bitches Baking. Her work has received the Claymore
Miaoyin Guan for "Things I Never Told My Mother"
An aspiring author/poet dedicated to bridging the gap between generations in immigrant households and bringing light to trauma and abuse often swept under the rug as a taboo topic. My goal is to share my own story focusing on heartfelt and raw reflections to explore the challenges and beauty of
James Moran for "Delphi"
I am a London-based writer of speculative fiction.
Lily Lu for "The Shadow-Marked Druid"
Lily Lu is a budding author of fantasy and science fiction stories.
Jane Bitomsky for "Tinder for Grans"
Jane lives in New Zealand with her young family. She has a PhD in early modern English history, a BA (Hons) and an LLB (Hons) from the University of Queensland. She has published in academic journals, and is a volunteer baker for NZ charity Good Bitches Baking. Her work has received the Claymore
