Past winners
2025 ~ Make Believe - Mary Parker
2024 ~ Ishbel – by Claire Aman
2023 ~ A major theft – by Emma Rosetta
2022 ~ Sandcastles – by Ruth Armstrong
2021 ~ The Mowing – by Ivy Ireland
2020 ~ Go Get Boy – by Alison Flett
Past Announcements
2024 OLGA MASTERS SHORT STORY AWARD
On Saturday 19 October 2024 Claire Aman was announced as the Winner of the Olga Masters Short Story Award 2024. Read Ishbel – by Claire Aman here.
Kaitlin Fletcher was named Runner-Up for her story, Mosquito.
The winner was announced as part of the Headland Writers Festival by our judges Kate Liston-Mills and Kate Kruimink.
A BIG congratulations to Claire, Kaitlin, and our Highly Commended entrants!
Claire's winning entry will be published in Island Magazine in November, which is available for purchase through their website and will appear on the Olga Masters website early next year.
Kaitlin Fletcher was the runner-up for her story, Mosquito, which is available to read now via the link below.
Congratulations to the Highly Commended entrants, Bron Morrison, Alexandra O’Sullivan, & Jay Arnold (their stories are also available for reading below).
Congratulations to all entrants of the Olga Masters Short Story Award 2024. The calibre of over 120 stories received from all over Australia was extraordinary!
HIGHLY COMMENDED ENTRIES
2023 Olga Masters Short Story Award
At the recent Headland Writers Festival, Emma Rosetta was announced as the winner of Olga Masters Short Story Award for her story A Major Theft. Emma's winning entry will be published in Island Magazine in November, which is available for purchase through their website and will appear on here early next year.
Linda Atkins was the runner-up for her story The Doula which is available to read now on the Olga Masters website. Journalist Chirs Masters attended the announcement as a representative of the Masters family who provide the prize money for the Award, run in honour of their mother Olga Masters. Here’s to all our stories -- the living and the written -- and to many more years of nurturing Australian writers in Olga Masters’ memory!