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Katharine Susannah Prichard Award
Subcategory of Awards Australian Awards
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History

The Katharine Susannah Prichard Poetry Awards are open to all Australian residents. There are two categories: Open, and the Youth Awards for writers aged 10-18. The awards are run by the Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers' Centre.

Latest Winners / Recipients (also see subcategories)13897697

Year: 2016

winner Seven Dreams Round i "out, one mile out off Goode Beach", Kevin Gillam , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Award Winning Australian Writing 2016 2016; (p. 38-39)
winner (Poetry) Facts and Fantasies i "The crocodile can't believe his luck, one last chance at his dream", Damen O'Brien , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Award Winning Australian Writing 2017 2017; (p. 292-293)

Year: 1991

winner Babyhead Deborah Robertson , 1993 single work short story
— Appears in: Summer Shorts 1993; (p. 155-161) Proudflesh 1997; (p. 79-89)

Year: 1990

winner (Short Fiction) To Reach Me Terri-Ann White , 1994 single work short story
— Appears in: Night and Day 1994; (p. 107-114)

Year: 1987

winner (short story) Snakes and Ladders Phillip Hewitt , 1991 single work short story
— Appears in: Aversion : Poetry and Prose from the West and Beyond , Spring no. 1 1991; (p. 35-43)

Year: 1963

winner The Boy from Coomb's Creek E. J. Grant , 1964 single work short story
— Appears in: The Realist , Summer no. 17 1964; (p. 4-7)

Works About this Award

Local Scribes Shine 2000 single work column
— Appears in: The West Australian , 25 November 2000; (p. 8)
Racism, the Realist Writers' Movement and the Katharine Susannah Prichard Award Nathan Hollier , 1999 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , October vol. 19 no. 2 1999; (p. 213-223)
Fiction Award to White 1991 single work criticism
— Appears in: The West Australian , 18 January 1991; (p. 30)
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