Winners of the 2025 AAALS Creative Writing Competition

Winner of the 2025 AAALS Indigenous Writers Creative Prose Prize:

Allanah Hunt (Barkindji and Malyangapa), “Pound of Flesh”

Winner of the 2025 AAALS Indigenous Writers Poetry Prize:

Hinemoana Baker (Māori), “Ceremony (for the Expatriated)” 

Winner of the 2025 AAALS Creative Prose Prize:

Bonny Cassidy, “Parts”

Winner of the 2025 AAALS Poetry Prize:

Stephanie Powell, “Staghound”

Antipodes will publish these works in an upcoming issue.

Thank you to the judges of the 2025 AAALS Creative Writing Competition:

• Indigenous Writers: Jenny Fraser (Migunburri/Yugambeh/Bunjalung) and Nicola Andrews (Ngāti Pāoa)

• Creative Prose: Raindrop Wright and Gay Lynch

• Poetry: Nathanael O’Reilly and Andy Jackson