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Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 2007

winner (Macquarie DEST Youth Award) form Jukebox Boys Nick Simpson Deeks , 2007 single work film/TV
winner (John and Libby Fairfax Rural Award) Batavia Patrick Carr , 2005 single work drama
winner (Holmes a Court Indigenous Award) Custody Jane Harrison , 2007 single work drama

'Two women meet on an Alice Springs-bound plane. Susan’s a successful ex-pat actor, happy to have snared a role in the Law and Order franchise; Inala’s an unsuccessful playwright of dubious heritage. They are both in Alice to handle mysterious “family business”. Thrown together, they stagger through a minefield of political correctness and identity confusion, distracted by an old Kombi called Birra Birra, T-shirts plastered with slogans, a smoking ceremony, Krispy Kreme donuts, topless traditional dancing and the occasional vomit bag…' (Source: Inscription website)

winner (Chairman's Award) y separately published work icon Tender Nicki Bloom , 2007 Strawberry Hills : Currency Press Griffin Theatre Company , 2008 Z1382054 2007 single work drama

'Sarah can't remember what happened in the gardens. Her memory is fractured, her husband Michael seems barely present and her parents-in-law, Yvonne and Patrick, are losing patience. What is it that she has lost and can she get it back? As we jump between events before and after that fateful night in the gardens it becomes clear that the scars that Sarah carries run deep.'

Source: Griffin Theatre Company.

winner (DOHA Grey Matter Award) form Mad About Harry Jack Douglas , 2007 single work film/TV
winner (Grange Securities Screenplay Award) form The Visitor Greg Woodland , 2007 single work film/TV
winner (WHK Greenwoods Open Playwriting Award) y separately published work icon Memmie Le Blanc Hilary Bell , 2006 New York (City) : First Look Press , 2008 Z1399890 2006 single work drama

Year: 2006

inaugural winner (Indigenous Award) Blakvelvet Jane Harrison , 2006 single work drama
inaugural winner (Grey Matter Award) Gondwana Inc. Bill Fleming , 2006 single work drama
inaugural winner (Macquarie Bank Regional Award) y separately published work icon Getting Away From It All Catherine Ryan , 2006 Hobart : Australian Script Centre , 2006 Z1422655 2006 single work drama young adult
inaugural winner (Emerging Award) The Sea Bride Caleb Lewis , 2006 single work drama

'[An] adaptation of the traditional Selchie (mermaid) myth'.

Source: Inscription website, www.inscription.com.au (Sighted 30/07/2008)

inaugural winner (Youth Award) So? Clare Skinner , Jade Ormiston , 2006 single work drama humour satire
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