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Katharine Susannah Prichard Speculative Fiction/Fantasy Award
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History

'The Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers' Centre is run under the auspices of the Katharine Susannah Prichard Foundation Inc. It is located in the Perth Hills, in the former home of Katharine Susannah Prichard, the internationally celebrated author of Coonardoo, Working Bullocks and many other novels, stories and plays. The centre encourages and facilitates services for writers at all levels of the craft. The Katharine Susannah Prichard Speculative Fiction Awards have two sections: the Open Awards, and the Mundaring National Young Writers Awards (for entrants twenty years old and under)'. '(www.melbournebooks.com.au/awaw2011contents.html#jj)

Notes

  • This award, offered by the Katharine Susannah Prichard Foundation, is awarded in two sections: Open Award and the Mundaring National Young Writers Award (for entrants twenty years old and under.)

Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 2016

winner The Collection Agency Rebecca Lehman , 2017 single work short story science fiction
— Appears in: Award Winning Australian Writing 2017 2017; (p. 48-55)

Year: 2014

winner (Open Category) Janeen Samuel for Peace Before the Flame
winner (Mundaring National Young Writers Category) Ashleigh Mounser For The Man in the Moon

Year: 2013

winner (Open Category) Sarah Wood for The Dreaming
winner (Mundaring National Young Writers Category) Daniel Ortlepp for Pillars

Year: 2011

winner The Statues of Melbourne Jack Nicholls , 2012 single work short story fantasy
— Appears in: Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine , no. 56 2012; (p. 18-23) Award Winning Australian Writing 2012 2012; (p. 252-258)

Year: 2010

winner Wolves, Sheep and I Denis Bastion , 2011 single work prose
— Appears in: Award Winning Australian Writing 2011 2011;
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