The Memoir and Autobiography Books category presents stories written in in free-verse poetry that reflect across the span of a lifetime.

Small Town Kid presents Frank Prem’s poems about growing up in the 1960s and 70s in rural Australia. Childhood and youth spent in rustic isolation within an insular community, finally becoming young manhood experienced in the metropolis.

Devil in the Wind describes the experience of victims and survivors of the 2009 Black Saturday wildfires in Australia. The voices are drawn from first hand experience, conversation with survivors, and stories told in newspaper and on air.

The New Asylum takes the reader on a unique journey into a lifetime in public psychiatry. Beginning with childhood exploration , then goes on into contemporary psychiatry with all its challenges and confrontations.