NEW ZEALAND YOUNG WRITER - 2014 WINNER

Casey Murray from Auckland won the Basil Sellers $1000 - 2014 New Zealand Young Writer award presented by Well-Being Australia's Russell Modlin. Casey was ahead by two points after 8 months and was up there for almost all of the marking period.

Casey's CV reads: Casey Murray works in marketing for a beauty company (L'oreal - Professionnel), where she plays with pretty things and eats too much chocolate. She writes to try and make sense of the chaos, and in the hope that she isn't the only one.