AustLit
Subcategory of Awards — Australian Awards
History
'Sponsored by Trinity College at the University of Melbourne and supporters, this prize recognises the wonderful talent of so many young Indigenous writers across the nation, and offers an opportunity for the best of our writers to be encouraged, published and acclaimed.
The annual prize is $5000 and is open to Indigenous writers under 30 years of age.' (Source: Overland Online website)
Latest Winners / Recipients
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Year: 2021
winner Sweet Anticipation 2022 single work short story
— Appears in: Overland , Winter no. 247 2022; (p. 51-56) -
Year: 2020
winner Superposition i "Too many blacks goin around, thinkin they own the place", 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Overland , Winter no. 239 2020; (p. 62-63) Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 10 no. 2 2021; (p. 27-29) Best of Australian Poems 2021 2021; (p. 190) -
Year: 2019
winner Running to Home 2019 single work short story
— Appears in: Overland , Spring no. 236 2019; -
Year: 2018
winner Haunted House 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Overland , Winter no. 231 2018; (p. 20) Fire Front : First Nations Poetry and Power Today 2020; (p. 158-159) -
Year: 2016
winner Muyum : A Transgression 2017 single work short story
— Appears in: Overland , Winter vol. 227 no. 2017; (p. 25-30) This All Come Back Now 2022; (p. 23-34)'When I crossed there was only little light darkly.
'This place where I have been told to find you is light and floor-stained tea tree, as my sister who dreams has described, she who sees still water when she hears my name. It is she who should be here to lay down in you and listen, but I was the one who was unravelled by silence.' (Introduction)
Works About this Award
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'The Whole Canon Is Being Reappraised': How the #MeToo Movement Upended Australian Poetry 2021 single work column
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 4 April 2021; 'Poets and publishers say a surge of new writing has followed the movement, profoundly changing Australian letters in sometimes unexpected ways' -
Judges Notes : The Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: Overland , Winter vol. 227 no. 2017; (p. 24)'This year, the Nakata Brophy competition focused on the short story. Notes from the judges – author Tara June Winch, Trinity College’s Katherine Firth, and Overland fiction editor Jennifer Mills – are below, followed by the entry that placed first in this year’s competition, Evelyn Araluen’s ‘Muyum: a transgression’.' (Introduction)
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Introducing the Nakata Brophy Short Fiction and Poetry Prize for Young Indigenous Writers 2013 single work column
— Appears in: Overland (Online) , November 2013;
