Woollahra Digital Literary Award 2025 winners announced

The winners of the 2025 Woollahra Digital Literary Awards have been announced.

The winning works in each category are:

Fiction ($2500)

• Nadia Mahjouri for The Miracle (published in Island Magazine)

Nonfiction ($2500)

• Suri Matondkar for 10 Steps to Becoming an Adult (published in the Audacity)

Poetry ($1000)

• David Stavanger for Planet Fitness (published in the Regional Review)

Readers’ choice ($250)

• Suri Matondkar for 10 Steps to Becoming an Adult (published in the Audacity)

Digital innovation ($1500)

• Tabitha Carvan, Olivia Congdon, Amanda Cox, Ilario Priori and Nic Vevers for The Unexpected Poetry of PhD Acknowledgements (published by the Australian National University College of Science).

This year, the winner of the inaugural Woollahra Libraries Writer in Residence was announced as Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad whose “residency project is a poetry collection that responds to Woollahra’s coastal landscapes and the echoes of elsewhere from her own lived experience,” said organisers.

The awards aim to support “innovation in Australian literature and publishing, encouraging writers producing work in a digital medium”, said organisers.

Judges this year included Amy Lovat (fiction), Ashley Kalagian Blunt (nonfiction), Ali Whitelock (poetry) and Brett Osmond (digital innovation).

More information about the winners and the awards are available on the Woollahra Municipal Council website.

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