The winners of the 2023 Banjo Paterson Writing Awards have been announced, with Kaitlyn Rutledge of Woodstock and of Timothy Guy of Cowra among the prize recipients.

Barbed Wire and Cherry Blossoms centres on an attempted breakout by more than 1000 Japanese soldiers from the prisoner-of-war camp in Cowra ... In providing refuge, Banjo Williams and his family ...

In the novel, Japanese soldier Hiroshi escapes the Cowra POW camp and is discovered by a man named Banjo Williams at a nearby Indigenous mission. The people of Erambie choose to harbour Hiroshi ...