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The Australian/Vogel Literary Award Open For Entries
TheAustralian/Vogel Literary Awardis now open for submissions. This prize for an unpublished manuscript is one of Australia's richest, and is open only to writers under the age of 35. The winning author will be awarded $20,000 in prize money as well as ... |
15/03/2013 10:52:37 AM |
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Homelessness the Theme of New Short Story Competition
The Footpath Library and Macquarie Bankhave joined forces to launch a new short story competition. Stories of up to 2,000 words are eligible. The winning story will be awarded prize money of $1,500. The runner up will get $350 and $150 will go to the ... |
08/03/2013 8:29:04 AM |
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Stephany Steggall Wins 2013 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship
Stephany Steggall, the biographer of Colin Thiele, Ivan Southall and Bruce Dawe, and a former researcher for AustLit, has won the 2013 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship. Her win was announced yesterday at the Hazel Rowley Memorial Lecture at Adelaide ... |
07/03/2013 11:47:48 AM |
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Shortlists Announced For Tasmanian Literary Prizes 2013
The shortlists for the Tasmanian Literary Prizes 2013 have been announced, and the winners will be announced on 22 March. The top prize, the Tasmania Book Prize, worth $25,000, recognises the best book with Tasmanian content in any genre. Contenders are ... |
18/02/2013 12:27:05 PM |
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New Prize for an Emerging Poet
A two-week stay in a castle in Ireland is just one of the goodies the winner of the inaugural Jean Cecily Drake-Brockman Poetry Prize will receive. A two-week writing residency at Manning Clark House in Canberra and $1,000 in cash will round out the ... |
05/02/2013 8:57:47 AM |
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Two Fellowships on Offer, Queensland and Victoria
Writers and scholars wanting to use the combined resources of the State Library of Victoria and The University of Melbourne can apply for the 2013 Redmond Barry Fellowship. The Fellowship, applications for which close on 26 April, facilitates research ... |
01/02/2013 9:17:41 AM |
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Indie Shortlists Announced
The shortlists for the 2013 Australian Independent Bookseller Awards, commonly known as The Indie Awards, have been announced. Awards are made in four categories - Fiction, Non-fiction, Debut Fiction and Children's. The Non-fiction category has a ... |
31/01/2013 9:12:48 AM |
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Three Western Sydney Writers' Fellowships on Offer
The WestWords Western Sydney Writers’ Fellowships are offering three 3 Fellowships worth more than $7,000 each to emerging and established writers aged 16 years and over from the Greater Western Sydney region. The Fellowships aim to provide ... |
30/01/2013 9:40:28 AM |
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Deadline Approaching for Josephine Ulrick Prizes
Poets and short story writers have until 31 January to enter for the Josephine Ulrick Prizes. Two prizes are on offer - a short story prize fora story of between 1,000-3,000 words, and a poetry prize for a poem or suite of poems up to 200 lines. First ... |
17/01/2013 8:51:37 AM |
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Nothing Like a Dame
Barry Humphries was honoured with a lifetime achievement award at the Sydney Theatre Awards on Monday, 14 January. Humphries, the creator of much loved characters such as Dame Edna Everage (pictured, left), Sir Les Patterson and Sandy Stone, was presented ... |
16/01/2013 9:29:59 AM |
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Indigenous Writers - Fellowship Opportunities
Entries are open for the State Library of Queensland's national black&write! writing competition. The competition offers two fellowships to both published and unpublished Indigenous authors. Entries can be novels, short stories, poetry or books for ... |
20/12/2012 9:25:12 AM |
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Your Holiday Task?
Are you a science journalist or a scientist who can communicate in layman's terms? If so, consider putting in an entry for theBragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing. NewSouth Publishing,supported by the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund,has established ... |
19/12/2012 10:40:40 AM |
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Melbourne Press Club Launches Journalism Hall of Fame
The Melbourne Press Club has named the first 20 inductees into the Journalism Hall of Fame. The club’s president, Mark Baker, said the Hall of Fame was ‘a 40th birthday initiative of the club’, enabling it to ‘tell important parts ... |
11/12/2012 11:03:00 AM |
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Bill Gammage Wins ACT Book of the Year Award
ACT Minister for the Arts Joy Burch recently announced The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia by Bill Gammage as the winner of the 2012 ACT Book of the Year Award. The assessment panel described Gammage’s work as ... |
10/12/2012 2:43:36 PM |
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What's Love Got To Do With It?
The Australian Writers' Guildis celebrating its fiftieth anniversary with a scriptwriting competition, called 'What's Love Got To Do With It?' The script can be for a feature film, tele-movie or television mini-series, but it must have a love story as the ... |
06/12/2012 9:27:41 AM |
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Grand Slam
CJ Bowerbird is the winner of this year'sAustralian Poetry Slam, achieving two perfect scores during the first and second rounds. Bowerbird won the chance to tour Beijing, Chengdu and Souzhou in China with Bookworm International Literary Festival, ... |
05/12/2012 9:06:29 AM |
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Enter on Spec?
Are you a published writer of speculative fiction? Did your book appear within the last calendar year? If so, think about nominating for the 2012 Aurealis Awards. You have till the end of December to put your name forward. Entry is free, and works can be ... |
04/12/2012 9:53:46 AM |
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NSW Premier's Literary Awards
It's been a big year for Kim Scott - nominated for Australian of the Year and now a double winner at theNSW Premier’s Literary Awards. Scott won both theChristina Stead Prize and the Book of the Yearfor his book That Deadman Dance. Gig Ryan's New ... |
03/12/2012 11:10:15 AM |
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Blake Prize Win for WA’s Graham Kershaw
The judges for this year’s Blake Poetry Prize — Martin Langford, Peter Minter and Amelia Walker — have awarded first place to Graham Kershaw’s three-part sequence 'Altar Rock'. In their comments, the judges observed that ... |
21/11/2012 12:48:14 PM |
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Amanda Lohrey Wins Patrick White Award
Tasmanian novelist and essayist Amanda Lohrey is the winner of the 2012 Patrick White Literary Award. The award is given annually to an author who has ‘made a contribution to Australian Literature’ and deserves further recognition. The judging ... |
20/11/2012 11:57:27 AM |