Armadale Writers' Award

This is a creative writing competition open to adult writers living in Western Australia.

Works must be original unpublished prose and have a 1000 - 3000 word count.

The Armadale Writers’ Award will open and accept online entries only from 1 - 30 September 2026.

Full details about this competition will be available in August 2026.

Prize winning entries for 2025

- 1st Place
- David J Harris
- National Park
- 2nd Place
- Joy Kilian-Essert
- Tree Man
- 3rd Place
- Rosanne Dingli
- Dad's Car
- Finalist
- Alison Batten
- Ray’s Zinnias
- Finalist
- David Broun
- The Pea Green Ute
- Finalist
- Jana Haasbroek
- Meeting a Fellow Survivalist
- Finalist
- K.A. Dunn
- Gold Fever
- Finalist
- Lyndal Weightman
- Old Nico
- Finalist
- Thomas Hickmott
- Blood Knot

Prize winning entries for 2024

- 1st Place
- Jewel Oreskovich
- A Hunger of Bellas
- 2nd Place
- Philippa Freegard
- Karrgatup
- 3rd Place
- Thomas Hickmott
- The Frogs
- Finalist
- Christine Tapper
- Riding the Waves
- Finalist
- Faridah Baharuddin
- The Birds
- Finalist
- J.A
- Ammu's Kitchen
- Finalist
- Lyndal Weightman
- Shall I Tell Him?
- Finalist
- Melanie Hobbs
- And what are you here to atone for today?
- Finalist
- Penny Walker
- Gingernuts
- Finalist
- Rosanne Dingli
- A Goodbye Kind of Wave

Prize winning entries for 2023

- 1st Place
- Tania Park
- Boy
- 2nd Place
- Stefanie Koens
- Growing
- 3rd Place
- Joel Huey
- Meet me at the Mango Trees
- Finalist
- A. R. Levett
- Man Enough
- Finalist
- Alison Davis
- Empty Nester
- Finalist
- Gemma Sidney
- Bright Eyes
- Finalist
- Holli Scott
- Rooted
- Finalist
- Kate Hampton Jones
- What do you remember about Witchcliffe?
- Finalist
- Kate White
- 0630 PER-MEL
- Finalist
- Sam Cecins
- The Things that Remain

Prize winning entries for 2022

- 1st Place
- Belinda Veldman
- The Colour of Words
- 2nd Place
- David Harris
- Pieces of a Soul
- 3rd Place
- David Wildsmith
- The Marketing Messiahs
- Finalist
- Alison Davis
- Happy anniversary
- Finalist
- Fiona Marshall
- The Orange
- Finalist
- Ian Reid
- Listing
- Finalist
- K. M. Mack
- Wrecked
- Finalist
- Nicki Blake
- Never Strikes Twice
- Finalist
- Rosanne Dingli
- Counterparts
- Finalist
- Sam Cecins
- Possum Bridge

Prize winning entries for 2021

- 1st Place
- Amanda Beckett
- Wadjemup
- 2nd Place
- Sam Cecins
- Upon the Unexpected Discovery of Magic
- 3rd Place
- Nadia Heisler
- Wild Flame
- Finalist
- Barry Divola
- Postal
- Finalist
- Barry Morley
- For Thomas I Dance with Mountains
- Finalist
- Carolyn Richer
- Que Sera, Sarah
- Finalist
- K.A. Dunn
- 1987
- Finalist
- Katie Webster
- Pani Z Autobusu
- Finalist
- Richard Montgomery
- The White Feather
- Finalist
- Ros Thomas
- How to Leave your Childhood Behind

Prize winning entries for 2020

- 1st Place
- William J Kite
- Robert the Bruce
- 2nd Place
- David Harris
- Butterscotch
- 3rd Place
- Ivan Gonzales
- Contagious Outbreak
- Finalist
- Julie Woodland
- Children of the Forest
- Finalist
- Mikaela Castledine
- 48 Drum street
- Finalist
- Nadia L King
- Deadpoint
- Finalist
- RJ McDonald
- Perth Royal Show, 1989
- Finalist
- Samuel Cecins
- The Hero in my Head
- Finalist
- Tamara Jones
- Watching and Waiting
- Finalist
- Carol Millner
- Bowls (Story withheld by Finalist)

Prize winning entries for 2019

- 1st Place
- David Harris
- The Courtship of a Disaffected Soul
- 2nd Place
- Prema Arasu
- Spaghetti
- 3rd Place
- Nicole Douglas
- The Mushroom
- Finalist
- Benjamin Mason
- The Black Ice
- Finalist
- Carolyn Richer
- Fledglings
- Finalist
- Claire Hart
- Red
- Finalist
- Heather Reid-Bell
- Frail
- Finalist
- JM Kelly
- Escape to Atlantis
- Finalist
- Mark Foster
- Ride
- Finalist
- Stephanie Roberts
- This Journey's End

Prize winning entries for 2018

- 1st Place
- Carolyn Richer
- Derailment
- 2nd Place
- Karen Taylor
- Dust
- 3rd Place
- Peta Shaw
- Coconut
- Finalist
- Benjamin Marie
- Instagrave
- Finalist
- Gemma Sidney
- Wrinkles
- Finalist
- Jeanette Stampone
- Hunted
- Finalist
- Jess Judd
- The Elephant Upstairs
- Finalist
- K.M Mack
- Collecting Leanne
- Finalist
- K. Thomson
- By the Bay
- Finalist
- Medina Dizdarevic
- Under My Skin

Prize winning entries for 2017

- 1st Place
- Paul Douglas Robertson
- Aussie Happy Hour!
- 2nd Place
- Lucy Wagenaar
- Sins of the Fathers
- 3rd Place
- Natasha Robinson
- The Rifle