Announcing the winners of the 2011 Express Media Awards

Congratulations to the 2011 winners and finalists in each of the categories below.

To see a video recording of the awards event, please click here.

To read a free ebook featuring the winners of the competitions and publication categories below, please click here.

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Winner and Finalists 2011

Category: Under 30: Best new project or work by a young person or young people in each state

VICTORIA

Winner:

Early Harvest by Pigeon Projects/Harvest Magazine

Finalists:

Hoodie

Pat Grant (Blue)

TASMANIA

Winner:

I Sleep in Haysheds and Corners

Finalists:

Kate Gordon (Thyla)

The Happiness Project by Kickstart

SOUTH AUSTRALIA

Winner:

Connor O’Brien (Quiet City and The Bright Young)

Finalists:

SA Writer’s Centre dB Youth Ambassadors Program

Dubnium

WESTERN AUSTRALIA

Winner:

Stray

Finalists:

The Kid on The Karaoke Stage published by Fremantle Press

Word Wired magazine and forums

QUEENSLAND

Winner:

Townsville Writers Centre

Finalists:

Stilts

Avid Reader’s Young and the Restless Bookclub

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Winner:

Scissors Paper Pen

Finalists:

Jack Heath (The Hit List)

Artists Unite (Canberra Youth Theatre)

NEW SOUTH WALES

Winner:

Penguin Plays Rough iPhone App

Finalists:

Seizure

Fiona Wright (Knuckled)

Sam Twyford-Moore/Seizure (The Five Obstructions)

NORTHERN TERRITORY

Winner:

Tease by Corrugated Iron Arts

Finalists:

Finn O’Branagain (Better Half)

Celestine Rowe (NT Australian Poetry Slam Finalist and CAAMA Women’s Business presenter)

Category: Under 30: Most innovative new project or work by young person or young people

Winner:

Zora Sanders – Meanjin Tournament of Books

Finalists:

Penguin Plays Rough App

The Cup Project

Category: Outstanding achievement by a young writer under 30 in 2011

Winner: Chris Currie

Category: Best non-fiction piece in an Express Media publication

Winner:

Development’s Underbelly, Bridget Chappell (Voiceworks #85 “Other”)

Finalists:

Christine Nixon, Lucy Green (The Under Age)

Wild Things, Kate Cantrell (Voiceworks #85 “Other”)

Category: Best fiction piece in an Express Media publication

Winner:

Vanadis, Matt Young (Voiceworks #86 “V”)

Finalists:

The best way to hold on to in life is each other, Elizabeth Tan (Voiceworks #85 “Other”)

Seven Seconds, Tara Cartland (Voiceworks #83 “Technicolour”)

Category: Best poem in an Express Media publication

Winner:

luminous and little else, Ainslee Meredith (Voiceworks #83 “Technicolour”)

Finalists:

archipelago, Brendan McDougall (Voiceworks #86 “V”)

don’t tell me your dreams, Rosa Campbell (Voiceworks #84 “Pulp”)

Category: Best news article in an Express Media publication

Winner:

Charles Bradley – Soul’s New King, Maille Halloran Mackay (The Signal Express)

Finalists:

Cluster Munitions, Luke Dundon (The Under Age)

Gay Rights Group Hits Back on Bendigo MP, Jack Egan (The Under Age)

Category: Best review in an Express Media publication

Winner:

The Definition of Glee, Sharona Lin (The Under Age)

Finalists:

Jane Eyre, Shaad D’Souza (The Signal Express)

Pirate Rhapsody, Mermaid Requiem, Ellen McKechnie (Buzzcuts)

Category: Outstanding achievement by an Express Media volunteer in 2011

Winner:

Jenna Sten

Category: Ongoing contribution to Express Media

Winners:

Bel Schenk

Tom Doig

Click here to see the WINNERS of the John Marsden Prize for Young Australian Writers.

The 2011 Express Media Awards were made possible through the support of some quite lovely people and organisations:

Express Media Patron

John Marsden

2011 Award Sponsors

Ongoing Supporters of Express Media