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History
The Wildcare Tasmania Nature Writing Prize 2003 was a major competition that offered the winner $4500 as first prize and a wilderness residency in Tasmania.
The competition - for fiction and non-fiction - was sponsored by Wildcare Inc and Hobart City Council.
(Sunday Tasmanian 22 December 2002)
Notes
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The Wildcare Tasmania Nature Writing Prize is awarded biennially and was first announced in March 2003. The prize is jointly administered by Tasmania's Parks & Wildlife Service and Island, and sponsored by Wildcare Tasmania.
Latest Winners / Recipients
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Year: 2007
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Year: 2005
winner Days of Christmas 2005 single work prose
— Appears in: Island , Spring no. 102 2005; (p. 46-58) The Best Australian Essays 2005 2005; (p. 162-176) -
Year: 2003
winner Strictly for the Birds 2003 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Island , Winter-Spring no. 93-94 2003; (p. 56-66)
Works About this Award
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Words That Paint Pictures 2009 single work essay
— Appears in: Island , Spring no. 118 2009; (p. 8-10)