The Adas 2023
ADA CAMBRIDGE WRITING PRIZES
FIRST PRIZE
Ross Gillett – ‘Coastal Collapse’
RUNNER-UP
Sam Morley – ‘Bubbles’
HIGHLY COMMENDED (in alphabetical order)
Yvonne Adami – ‘One Day’
Rosemary Blake – ‘In Care’
Anne M Carson – ‘Driving to the snow: young, six or seven’
Emilie Collyer – ‘Coil’
Shoshanna Rockman – ‘Two men who loved me’
COMMENDED (in alphabetical order)
Nicole Butcher – ‘I wonder if anyone has ever known a hotel as well as I know this one’
Emilie Collyer – ‘Haven’
Alicia Sometimes – ‘Scintinmammography’
FIRST PRIZE
Anne Hotta – ‘Conversations with a Seagull’
RUNNER UP
Diana Renner – ‘Crossing Over’
HIGHLY COMMENDED (in alphabetical order)
Catherine Bell – ‘A Row of Little Boots’
Lorraine Proctor – ‘Lik Lik Sinabada’
COMMENDED (in alphabetical order)
Peter Newbury – ‘George Verdon, Marvellous Melbourne’s Money Man’
Warwick Sprawson – ‘Primer’
SHORTLISTED (in alphabetical order)
Tricia Bowen – ‘Buttons’
Linda Carr – ‘Drinking Tea’
Anastasia FitzGerald – ‘The Mothers’
Jemma van Loenen – ‘Stripped Down’
FIRST PRIZE
Jennifer Williams – ‘Wings of Hope’
RUNNER-UP
Syazwana Saifudin – ‘My Grandmother’s Soldier’
HIGHLY COMMENDED (in alphabetical order)
Sai Hansika Chenna – ‘Young Love’
Taylor Navarro – ‘The Precipice’
COMMENDED (in alphabetical order)
Harguan Kaur – ‘Akhila’
Siya Gauri Singh – ‘Curse or Blessing?’
SHORTLISTED (in alphabetical order)
Talisha Galea – ‘Somewhere Only We Know’
Aleena Kayani – ‘Nirin River’
Melany Nguyen – ‘Lightshow’
Yahia Zoubiri – ‘The Only Man’