Winners of the 2024 AAALS Creative Writing Competition

Winner of the 2024 AAALS Indigenous Writers Prize:

Ellen van Neerven, “Being Country’s Soft Butch”

Winner of the 2024 AAALS Creative Prose Prize:

Gay L. Lynch, “Hebe’s Lament”

Winner of the 2024 AAALS Poetry Prize:

Anne M. Casey, “X-ray”

Honorable Mention:

Gregory Dally, “Downtime”

Antipodes will publish these works in an upcoming issue.

Thank you to the judges of the 2024 AAALS Creative Writing Competition:

• Indigenous Writers: Vaughan Rapatahana and Cass Lynch

• Creative Prose: Rachel Robertson and Raindrop Wright

• Poetry: Susan Bradley Smith and Nathanael O’Reilly

The winners of the 2025 AAALS Creative Writing Competition will be announced soon!