Results of 2021 Golden Wattle Award and Queensland Written Championship

[Shelley Hansen]

THE 2021 Golden Wattle Bush Poetry Awards and Queensland State Championship

Congratulations to our State Champion and all the winners in this year’s competition!!

AND THE WINNERS ARE ……………………………

• State Champion (Graham Fredriksen Trophy) and Open Serious section 1st place: Peter O’Shaughnessy for ‘Kadaitcha’.
• Open Serious 2nd place: David Judge for ‘Henry’.
• Open Serious 3rd place: Irene Timpone for ‘The Debutante’.

• Open Humorous 1st place: Veronica Weal for ‘Breakfast by the Creek’.
• Open Humorous 2nd place: Peter O’Shaugnhessy for ‘In the Clean Bar’.
• Open Humorous 3rd place: Veronica Weal for ‘I spied a Spider’.

• Novice Serious: Howard Kennedy for ‘Pandemic Protocols’.
• Novice Humorous: Howard Kennedy for ‘The Theatre of a Sale’.
• Junior: Devmika Bogahapitiya for ‘The Silence Beauty’.

Highly commended:
• Open Serious: Veronica Weal for ‘Daisies and Snail Shells’.
• Open Humorous: Peter O’Shaughnessy for ‘An Ancient Tiger’.

Commended:
• Open Serious: Shelley Hansen for ‘The Trial of Harry Redford’.
• and Peter O’Shaughnessy for ‘The Landing’.
• Open Humorous: David Judge for ‘The Outback Surfie’
• and Peter O’Shaughnessy for ‘Shanghaied’