Jo Chandler won the 2017 Feature Writing Quill for 'The Totten Hots Up', published in The Monthly.

Read 'The Totten Hots Up': https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2017/march/1488286800/jo-chandler/totten-hots

Highly Commended

Michael Bachelard & Kate Geraghty (Fairfax Media) for 'Surviving Islamic State: Stories from Mosul'

Other finalists

Margaret Burin (ABC) for 'Walking in two worlds'
Emily Woods (The Sunday Age) for 'The young Moomba rioters: Restoring faith in justice'