Liam and Frankie Davison Award
Senior secondary students resident in Australia or New Zealand can apply for the $1,000 Liam and Frankie Davison award for outstanding achievement in literary writing on women’s health. ApplyContact UsEligibility
Applications are open to students in their final three years of secondary school (Years 10, 11 or 12 in Australia and Years 11, 12 or 13 in New Zealand).
All applications must include a completed application form and an original literary piece of not more than 1000 words on any topic of interest in women’s health (examples might include an opinion piece on a social issue, a short story or a report).
Apply
Applications not currently being accepted.
Winning entries
We continue to be impressed the high standard of entries we receive for this award and the knowledge of young people, and their interest in writing about, women’s health topics. Difficult topics such as breast cancer, pregnancy loss, mental health difficulties, the gender health gap, violence, societal expectations, threats to reproductive rights and menstrual taboo are addressed. However, the authors themselves provide hope and inspiration through their thoughtful, creative, informative, passionate submissions.
Congratulations to all those who submitted in 2025, and the literary pieces of the two prize recipients are below:
- Amber Lee, a Year 13 student from Carmel College, Auckland. Amber’s entry is ‘The Crab at Our Door’.
- Juliet Gwizdek-Faulkner, a Year 10 student from Toorak College, Mount Eliza, Victoria. Juliet’s entry is ‘Something Like Home.’
