1959
Essay
Dymphna Cusack The Big Leap Forward
Jeana Bradley The Stamp of Greatness
N. H. Brittan 100 Years of Darwinism
Creative Nonfiction
Katharine Susannah Prichard Wyburn
Poetry
Dorothy Hewett Once I Rode With Clancy…
Francis King The Cats
Griffith Watkins As Young As I Was
John O’Brien I pity the virgin Phyllis
Hugh Laing From the Love Songs of William Ross
John O’Brien "Ballad"
Fiction
Max Brown Cutting Plug
A. E. Sturges The Lie
Review
Alec King A review of the Penguin Anthology of Australian Verse
Peter Abotomey A review of Xavier Herbert's Seven Emus
David Bradley A review of Geoffrey Dutton's Antipodes in Shoes
David Hutchison A review of Span
Gaye Tennent A review of Verse in Australia, 1958