Congratulations to this year’s winners, announced June 22 at events across Aotearoa!
All long-listed stories, along with judges’ notes from this competition, will be published at the end of June. Watch Flash Frontier for updates.
ADULT
FIRST
The other Jim by Kim Martins
Kerikeri, Te Tai Tokerau Northland
SECOND
Mother’s shoes by Tania Norfolk
Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington
THIRD
Before the earthquake by Tim Jones
Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington
Highly Commended:
Your father one Tuesday by Cate Sapiano Chin
Queensbury, Ōtākou Otago
Commended:
The seal we found by Mark Blackham
Lower Hutt, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington
YOUTH
First
i am seven years old, just like i have always been
Ellie Zhou, age 17, Ōtautahi Christchurch
Second
our son is special needs, he has autism and our daughter Sarah, she’s a firecracker
Charlotte Taylor, 14, Alexandra
Third
Most trees live beautiful and lonely lives
Ellarose Wang, age 14, Ōtautahi Christchurch
Highly Commended
Eggs
Tom Ambury, age 15, Loburn, Waitaha
The Secret Spot
Cerys Piggot, age 10, Te Whanganui a Tara Wellington
Commended
How Many Thursdays In Eternity?
Sarah I-Xin Tan, age 17, Te Whanganui a Tara Wellington
The Story from Smoke
Zara Groves, age 15, Tauranga
Uncle David
Shin Nguyen, age 11, Whanganui a Tara Wellington
NZSA REGIONAL AWARDS
Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland Regional Prize
Caroline Masters
Te Tai Tokerau Northland Regional Prize
Kim Martins
Waitaha Canterbury Regional Prize
Annabel Wilson
Kirikiriroa Hamilton Regional Prize
Hayden Pyke
Top of the South
Nicholas Fairclough
Te Whanganui a Tara Wellington Regional Prize
Tania Norfolk
Ōtākou Otago Regional Prize
Cate Sapiano Chin
Short Lists
Adult category
listed alphabetically by title
Before the earthquake by Tim Jones
Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington
Lessons in geology by Deb Jowitt
Whangārei Heads, Te Tai Tokerau Northland
May Day, Metropolitan Line by Annabel Wilson
Swannanoa, North Canterbury
Mother’s shoes by Tania Norfolk
Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington
Still life by Kerry Dalton
Paekākāriki, Kāpiti Coast
The other Jim by Kim Martins
Kerikeri, Te Tai Tokerau Northland
The seal we found by Mark Blackham
Lower Hutt, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington
Your father one Tuesday by Cate Sapiano Chin
Queensbury, Ōtākou Otago
Youth category
listed alphabetically by title
Eggs by Tom Ambury, age 15
Loburn, Waitaha
Graphing You by Cicy Chen, age 16
Ōtautahi Christchurch
How Many Thursdays In Eternity? by Sarah I-Xin Tan, age 17
Te Whanganui a Tara Wellington
i am seven years old, just like i have always been by Ellie Zhou, age 17
Ōtautahi Christchurch
Most trees live beautiful and lonely lives by Ellarose Wang, age 14
Ōtautahi Christchurch
No Response by Rio Gotoh, age 13
Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland
our son is special needs, he has autism and our daughter Sarah, she’s a firecracker by Charlotte Taylor, age 17
Alexandra, Ōtākou Otago
Puddle by Lia Tommasi, age 15
Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland
The Secret Spot by Cerys Piggot, age 10
Te Whanganui a Tara Wellington
The Story from Smoke by Zara Groves, age 15
Tauranga
this equation is wrong by Tom Ambury, age 15
Loburn, Waitaha
Uncle David by Shin Nguyen, age 12
Whanganui a Tara Wellington
Long Lists
Adult category
listed alphabetically by title
Form and structure by Joseph Jowitt
Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland
Gone, too by Rebecca Ball
Ōtautahi Christchurch
Life in Space Colony Goodall 3 by Robinne Weiss
Kirwee, Waitaha Canterbury
Ode to marriage and raising boys by Nicholas Fairclough
Waimea Richmond, Te Tai o Aorere Tasman
Practical grief by Shannon Spencer
Waikirikiri Selwyn, Waitaha Canterbury
Pukekura / Taiaroa Head by Rowan Jeffrey
Ōtautahi Christchurch
Sleeping with Siri by Maggie Rainey-Smith
Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington
Sometimes I have trouble telling if people are laughing or crying by Margot Mclean
Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington
Spring by Clare Mariskind
Ōtautahi Christchurch
The dollhouse by Caroline Masters
Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland
There’s a hole in my bucket by Hayden Pyke
Kirikiriroa Hamilton
Untethered by Heather McQuillan
Ōtautahi Christchurch
Youth category
listed alphabetically by title
A Cheeky Grandmother in the Himalayas by Kastubh Khadka. age 12
Ōtautahi Christchurch
Abyss by Brooke Chambers, age 16
Maungaturoto, Te Tai Tokerau Northland
Bin Bag by Lucia Yoon, age 14
Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland
Calibration by Joshitha Tappeta, age 14
Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington
Collectables by Élise Cater, age 14
Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland
Look and Listen by Emma Zhang, age 13
Ōtautahi Christchurch
maybe in another life we were both rhombuses by Cicy Chen, age 16,
Ōtautahi Christchurch
Sticky rice cakes by Kate Le, age 13
Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland
Storm! by Selvi Macmillan, age 10
New Plymouth
The Diary of a Feijoa by George Klein, age 10
Te Awamutu, Waikato
Tide Unravelled by Lilah McDonald, age 15
Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland
Undertow by Samuela Noel Dsouza, age 17
Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland
Underwater Disaster by Rumi Wijeratna, age 9
Te Whanganui a Tara Wellington
