Year of Reading Writing Competition Winners

"It's never too late ... to learn to read" - a short story competition for unpublished, new, emerging and established Australian writers in Adult Learners Week winners have been announced. The National Year of Reading 2012, in partnership with the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) and Writing Australia, supported by the NT Writers Centre, Queensland Writers Centre and writingWA, was given a grant by the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR), to run a writing competition as part of Adult Learners' Week 2011 (ALW). The aim was for the creation of exciting, inspiring and challenging stories to support and encourage adult learning, and to highlight the fact that "It's never too late ... to learn to read".

You will find the names of the 21 winners, who share a prize pool of $45,000, and the six highly commended entrants, on the Lovetoread website. Some of the stories are sad, some are funny, all are inspirational. Why not download them and find out what made them the judges' top choices? Go to http://www.love2read.org.au/never-too-late.cfm