Darebin Mayor's Writing Awards

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The Darebin Mayor’s Writing Award is an annual award to acknowledge the community's vibrant writers who live, work and or study in Darebin. Submissions for the Council's print publication dSCRIBE are selected and judged by an independent curatorial panel of industry professionals and Darebin's Mayor in consideration of the award, which offers cash prizes to the winners.

Read about previous year winners

Read about our 2023 Award winners(PDF, 185KB)

Read about our 2022 Award winners(PDF, 243KB)

Read about our 2021 Award winners(PDF, 141KB)

Read about our 2020 Award winners(PDF, 102KB)  

Winners of the 2020 Darebin Mayor’s Writing Awards for Young People:

The Darebin Mayor’s Writing Awards for Young People was a program made possible by Council’s Community and Local Business Resilience and Recovery Packagein response to COVID-19.

Primary School
  • First Prize: Cushla Booth
  • Second Prize: Charlie Yong
  • Highly Commended: Mika Lanz Forstner, Dana Tingwell, Thomas Lenne, Travis Le Packham, Thomas O’Grady.
Secondary School
  • First Prize: Eva Gadsby
  • Second Prize: Tess Baker
  • Highly Commended: Mila Guest, Maia Clisby de la Piedad, Scarlett Clare, Luke Ehlert, Mia Purcell.

 

Image by: Tom Noble

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