This year's Bauhinia Literary Awards have attracted winning entries from throughout Australia.

Sascha Morell from Petersham NSW won the Open Story ($450) category with her submission entitled The Statues.

Other winners (see below) are spread widely across the nation (and in one case New Zealand).

The Awards are conducted by the Idiom 23 Magazine based at CQUniversity. Several of the successful authors participated in a North Keppel Island workshop organised by the magazine.

LINK HERE for a FULL LIST of winners and highly commended/commended entrants

Regional Story, First Prize ($300)

Di Loughnan (Roma Q) "Fish out of Water"

Tertiary Student Story:  First Prize  $150

Anthony Greenwood (Mooloolaba Q) "Sandcastles"   

Open Poetry: First Prize ($300)

Stuart Barnes (Clifton Hill, Vic)  "El Espolio (The Disrobing of Christ)"

International Tertiary Student Poetry: First Prize ($100)

Keith Westwater (New Zealand) "The West Winds Gang is Back" (MLitt student, 2009)

Regional Poetry - First Prize ( $100)

Patricia Rayner (Kinka Beach Yeppoon Q) "Without Rain" - who also received a Highly Commended and was a North Keppel Island Workshop participant.

Tertiary Student Poetry: First Prize ($100)

Jena Woodhouse (St Lucia Q) "Saturday Nights at the Myola" (NKI Workshop participant & tutor)

Secondary Student Story: First Prize ($100)

Caroline McAlister (Buderim Q) "Fire"

Secondary Student Poetry: First Prize ($70)

Jack Burnham (Currimundi Q) "In Memory of Adam Lindsay Gordon"

Primary Student Story:  First Prize $70

Larissa Zeil-Rolfe (Rockhampton) "My Pony"