2014 Express Media Awards

Congratulations to all of the Award Winners for 2014!The 2014 Express Media Award Winners Best Review in Express Media publicationMatthew Sims ‘The Pillow Man’ (Buzzcuts Melbourne Fringe)Best news article/interview in Express Media publicationDylan Bruce ‘Happy Hounds and Humans at Casterton Kelpie Muster’ (The Under Age)Olivia Hurley ‘Our Misguided and Problematic Concepts of Gender’ (The Signal Express)Best Visual Art in Express Media publicationErika Williams ‘Heart Strings’ (Voiceworks #98 MASTER)Cameron Baker ‘Plastic Cup’ (Voiceworks #99 PLASTIC)Best Comic in Express Media publicationLucy Adams and Mari Adams ‘Feeder’ (Voiceworks #98 MASTER)Best poem in Express Media publicationEmmie Rae ‘I am my own person, standing on the concrete by a family of fallen plants’ (Voiceworks #96 PERSPECTIVE)Best Fiction in Express Media publicationElizabeth Kuiper ‘Snow in Africa’ (Voiceworks #97 HABIT)Jessica Yu ‘Keh Kut’ (Dialect)Best Non-Fiction in Express Media publicationSam Robertson ‘Impmobai is Nothing’ (Voiceworks #97 HABIT)Best New Project by a young person or young people in each state:NSW/ACTSydney Story Factory for The Home ProjectSouth AustraliaComics With Friends and StrangersNorthern TerritoryRed Dirt Poetry FestivalWestern AustraliaPhill English ‘Seizure Round-Up’VictoriaMadeleine Dore ‘Extraordinary Routines’TasmaniaTwitchQueenslandSCUM ‘2 a.m. Project’ Most Innovative New Project or Work by a young person or young persons in 2014Duncan Felton and Finbah Neill for ‘The Grapple Annual’Outstanding Achievement by a Young Writer or Editor (Under 30) in 2014Steph WalkerOutstanding contribution by Express Media volunteerSarah Dunstan (WA)Ongoing Contribution to Express MediaJoe Toohey The Scribe Nonfiction Prize for Young WritersThe winner of the 2014 Scribe Nonfiction Prize for Young Writers is Robbie Arnott for ‘Birds and Knives and Not Talking About It’. The John Marsden/Hachette Australia PrizeIn 2014 The John Marsden/Hachette Prize attracted 475 entries from writers under 25 across Australia. Judged by John Marsden and the staff of Hachette Australia, the winning entries are:Short StoryWinner aged 18-24: Laura Elizabeth Woollett ‘Soybeans’Winner aged under 18: Sky Moore ‘The Moon’PoetryWinner aged 18-24: Jeremy Teow ‘On the Immobility of the Orogenic’Winner aged under 18: Eunice Andrada ‘Nightfall Reprise’The winners of the John Marsden/Hachette Prize can be read in Voiceworks #99 'Plastic' All of the winning publication entries feature in our free Best of Express 2014 ebook which will be released in early 2015.Well done to all the winners and thank you to everyone who attended. See you again in 2015!The 2014 Express Media Awards are presented with the support of our award sponsors Scribe Publications, Hachette Australia and our Patron John Marsden.