Writing Award 2022

New college graduate, Devon DeWitt, is finally fulfilling his dream of purchasing a hat for his new career in the city. He knows the design he wants, yet a sinister customer confuses his mind with too many choices.

Deferred Dreams is about time travel and the hardships in everyday life with two different times. The main character is a woman who has had a failed marriage and failed relationships and never really felt she found "The Love of her Life".
It has beautiful times, love, death, violence and sadness.

Guilt sends him running from his village, the need for truth brings him home.

When her mother and her twin sister died, a depressed daughter was determined to return to her mother's hometown and discover and confront the horrors of the past that caused her mother and her eight siblings never to return to their hometown again.

When a famous daughter is about to empty the family closet of its skeletons in one devastating art installation, what do you do to keep the closet door safely locked? This story is told in the voices of five distinct characters to unfold a pattern of of misunderstanding, fears – and humour.

A box with a secret history forges an unlikely bond between two women, each born in different centuries.

Before Pip dies, he asks his dog Mollie to make sure his wife, Suki, is happy. But rescuing Suki from widowhood proves no easy feat, so what did Pip mean? Throughout their journey, Moll and Suki learn the importance of humour and love while dealing with grief and the joy of starting again.

Used as bait by MI6 and then shuffled off to Australia to escape the lethal vengeance of her East German secret policeman father, Col is forced to spy on the migrant communities there but the destructive force of her life of lies threatens to crush her.

Around a remote East African forest reserve Samti’s low-level poaching is disrupted by a mysterious new species. As fantastic species and eccentric hunters converge upon her, Samti must fight to protect her family and protect the forest she loves.

Think: "Emily in Paris" for grown-ups.

Nicola Eastly investigates the murders of two homeless people in Ladyford. She knows the identity of the murderer. It is Tristan Abbott and he is an influential councillor. Nicola struggles to get anyone to believe her story. Fortunately, she has the help of her best friend and, an unlikely ally.

Soarame undertook lonely practices in the deadly underground cavern, where unknown creatures of Baron level emerge from time to time. With Volsta's help, could he finally become a Master? Multiple major beastides invaded the human world and killed millions, what were the reasons behind it?

INTO THE TREES is a coming-of-age story about a restless twenty-three-year-old who leaves post-punk London for a remote forest in India, to escape a violent past and seek a new purpose.

A cocky raven, a goofy firefly, a smallish cloud, a flying wolf, a GuardianWitch and her BroomCat, and the rest of a group of misfit critters help a woefully undersized young giant learn his destiny and fulfill an ancient prophecy.

In a dream, a missing father tells his daughter he was saved by mermaids after his plane went down off the North Carolina coast…and she believes him.

A young girl challenges the leaders of her village by undertaking a quest to find the SunKeeper’s One Sundrop and return it to the sky in order to rekindle the sun before the MoonKeeper destroys it, thus precipitating the destruction of all life on her world.

Three extraordinary events challenge the ordinary lives of a family and the reality of the relationship of a father and a son.