The Awards
2025 Furphy Literary Award Winners
2025 Open Short Story Finalists
The Furphy Literary Award 2025 Open Short Story – Shortlist
The Furphy Literary Award 2025 Open Short Story – Longlist
- Falling – AS Patric
- Collectables – Alex Grantham
- Still Standing – Alison Davis
- One thing you should know about me is… – Alison Killick
- Whole Again – Alison Richards
- Cur-Aus-ity – Alyssa Walker
- All The Moments I Still Live In – Amy Montague
- Glyph – Ashley Cracknell
- Lotto – Benjamin Power
- Face to Face with Fishers Ghost! – Brian Chapple
- Parting – Bruce Clark
- The Eulogy Business – Serena Moss
- Match – Carlie Jennings
- Crossroads: Three’s a Crowd – Carmel Liddell
- Nathan: On Closing the Gap – Carmel Liddell
- Burnt Horizon – Caroline Dehn
- Somewhere Above the Artesian – Charlotte Askew
- Thick-knee – Charlotte Spurge
- Clap Hands ’til Daddy Comes Home – Chris Thompson
- Proliferate – Christine Caley
- Felt – Claire Aman
- The fifth day at Flaggy – Corrine McMaster
- The Grim Reaper – Damian O’Donnell
- Hills Hoist – Dani Ringrose
- Turkey Dinner – Darren Bell
- Joe and the potato frames – Darren Pettett
- Waiting for Father – David Harris
- The Boy on the Train – Deborah Hunter
- Head of Cook – Debra Adelaide
- Happy Hour at the Broken Hill Hotel – Elizabeth Kuiper
- With all of her Teeth – Emily Tsokos Purtill
- The undying love of Specimen A398 – Emma Westwood
- Monty – Erin Cate
- No Place Like Home – Evelyn Fox
- One of Our Own – Jake Kite
- Like a Stone – Janeen Samuel
- Turn to Snow – Jay McKenzie
- Weimin – Jing Cramb
- Dionysus Escapes – Joann Djubal
- The dog of the south – John Fraser
- Hole in the Earth/Cakes – John Potts
- Muggy Mouth – Jorgia Hamilton
- The Role of Cloaca in Monotreme Phylogeny – Joseph Pfeffer
- Night Riders – Joshua Kemp
- Beanpole – Joshua Lee Shimmen
- Our Spy – June Hopkins
- Sunrise with Sea Monsters – KA Rees
- Echoes of Grace – Kathie Elliott-Scott
- Hunting Tigers – Keith Goh Johnson
- Silently Vanished – Kylie Orr
- Halcyon Days – Kym Tyzack
- Pursuit – Lee Frank
- Familia Defectus – Louise Walton
- Rest – Lyn Treadwell
- Tendency to Sunburn – Mark O’Flynn
- the best sandwiches of your life – Mars Landing (Morris Bryant)
- Those Who Stayed – Melanie Wild
- Night Music on Repeat – Meryl McDougall
- A New Life – Michael Fletcher
- The Shadow of the Man Still Follows – Michael Kowalczyk-Barker
- Club by Day, Kitchen by Night – Miles Da Costa
- A Different Kind of Dawn: Refections of ANZAC DAY 2025 – Naomi Taylor
- A Man’s Best Friend – Oisin Kan
- I am… – Patsy Norton
- Sydney Harbour – Paul Drewitt
- Space Invaders – Paul Drewitt
- Some Kind of Samaritan – Paul Mitchell
- The Fallacy of Self – Penni Giuliani
- The Cailleach – Philomena van Rijswjik
- Shark Nets – Robin Barker
- Grit in my eyes – Rodney (Rod) Francisco
- On Three Full Moons – Ron Schroer
- Sacrifice – Rowan MacDonald
- Silent Is The Night – Roxeena Bidgood
- Used Parts – Russell Bywater
- Whispers from Shiraz – Sepideh Fallah
- Slugs – Shane Platt
- The Mirror Stage – Sharon Kernot
- The Little Blue Boat – Stephen Orr
- Naming Rights – Stuart Campbell
- The Rolling Pin Competition – Sue Osborne
- Less – Susan Bennett
- Waiting – Tina Huang
- Gore Hill Cemetery – Verity Borthwick
Youth and Junior Poetry and Short Story
Junior Short Story Finalists
WINNER
The Ocean’s Orphan
Author: Jane Pearce
2nd Place
Fly, Fly Away
Author: Evelyn Hamson
Equal 3rd Place
The Adventures of Super Kid: Super Kid vs The Mime
Author: Sky Narrazee
Equal 3rd Place
Pondpark’s Quietest Hero
Author: Lill Narrazee
Junior Poetry Finalists
WINNER
The Lark
Poet: Errol Rose
2nd Place
More Than Roses
Poet: Sky Narrazee
Equal 3rd Place
In the tree
Poet: Errol Rose
Equal 3rd Place
Kusama
Poet: Errol Rose
