Congratulations to Ruby Ekkel, winner of the inaugural Kay Schaffer Award for best unpublished essay on storytelling (broadly defied) in Australian Studies. Ruby’s essay, “‘Friends with wild nature’: Intimacy, expertise, and women’s nature-writing in early-twentieth-century Victoria” charts the story of Alice Manfield and her work as an early conservationist in the high country of Federation-era Victoria. The Award commemorates the influential scholarship of Professor Kay Schaffer. Congratulations, Ruby!