1961
Essay
Randolph Stow Raw Material
Ronald Taft Mateship, Success-ship and Suburbia
Creative Non-fiction
Mary Durack Plain and Prairie
Poetry
J.M.S. O’Brien The Country Girl
A.F. de Grys Mulberry Tree
Cyril E. Goode Tractor Driver in Mallee Country
John Meredith The Baker's Wife
Merv Lilley The Lost Word
Fiction
Peter Cowan Film
John Pen "I beg to report…"
Mike O’Leary The Face Behind the Whip
Review
Ross Haig A review of Cyril Pearl's Always Morning
Malcolm Levene A review of Colin Thiele's Man in a Landscape
Peter Abbott A review of A. D. Hope's Poems
Peter Abotomey A review of Price Waring's Convict Days
George Seddon A review of Overland and Southerly
P. W. Jeffery A review of The Tracks We Travel