Winner "Goodaye Old Mate" by Jim Kent, runner-up The Storyteller by Shelley Hansen, Highly Commendeds: Giving Something Back by Geof Grundy,The Girl from Mataranka by Hugh Allen, Swampy by Chris Taylor, Pappinburra Burning by Tom McIlveen, Billy Mateer by Tim Borthwick; Ghosts of Gold by Brenda Joy.

Other poets included: Patricia Coy,Darcy Lloyd, Tony Hammill, Yvonne Harper, Hugh Allen, Terry Piggott, John Roberts, Steve McGinnis, Peter Rich, Jet Jones, Derek Bland, Keith Lethbridge, Leonie Parker,Mrs Jill Mary Gold, Chris Taylor, Donald Crane, Donald Adams, Peter White, Marco Gliori,Robyn Sykes, Elizabeth Tobal,Lyle Arnold, Jack Drake, Peter O'Shaughnessy, Peg Vickers,Jan Craig, Patricia Russell, Helen Harvey, Valerie P Read, Mr Graeme Johnson, Val Wallace, Helen Harvey