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Serena Moss has won the 2025 Furphy Literary Award, worth $15,000, for her short story ‘The Eulogy Business’.
Based in Geraldton, Moss works in real estate and is an aspiring author. She was shortlisted for the Fremantle Press 2025 Fogarty Literary Award for her manuscript ‘Wreckage’. According to the organisers, ‘her work explores themes of grief, memory, and the quiet complexities of Australian life’.
Charlotte Askew was named runner up for ‘Somewhere Above the Artesian’ and receives $3000; and Amy Montague took third place for ‘All the Moments I Still Live In’ and receives $2000.
The judging panel comprised of Anson Cameron, John Harms, Margaret Hickey, Stephanie Holt, John Kerr and Thornton McCamish.
Cameron said, ‘Your hope when you’re reading a story entered into a competition like this is that you’ll eventually hear a voice, a new voice, a voice both profound and hilarious, a true voice that makes you listen wholeheartedly and joyously, a voice that might become a name … a name in Australian literature. The judges heard that voice while reading this story.’
Moss, Askew and Montague will be published alongside the 13 other shortlisted stories in The Furphy Anthology 2025.
The Furphy Literary Award aims ‘to promote and extend the tradition of story telling, both factual and fictional, that is so much part of Australian life’. Eligible entries include unpublished short stories of up to 5000 words.
Last year’s winner was Kathryn Lomer for the short story ‘Nothing about Kissing’.
More information about the award is available on the Furphy Story website.
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