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Wet Ink/CAL Short Story Prize
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Wet Ink Short Story Award
Subcategory of
Awards
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Australian Awards
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History
'The Wet Ink/CAL Short Story Prize, formally known as the Wet Ink Short Story Prize, was an annual literary award given by the magazine Wet Ink for Australian short fiction. Only Australians are eligible for the award. The Wet Ink Short Story Prize was first awarded in 2011 for works written during 2010. The award was discontinued following the closure of Wet Ink with 2012 being the final year the prize was awarded.' (Source : Wikipedia)
Notes
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Established in 2010. Judges for the inaugural award : Emily Stinson and Sally Breen, with the final decision to ba made by Peter Goldsworthy.
Latest Winners / Recipients
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Year: 2011
winner Sale, Victoria 2012 single work short story
— Appears in: Wet Ink , no. 26 2012; (p. 23-27)
Works About this Award
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Judges Comments : Wet Ink Short Story Prize 2012 single work column
— Appears in: Wet Ink , no. 27 2012; (p. 1) -
Overflow 2010 single work column
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 5-6 June 2010; (p. 19) Column of literary news including the establishment of the Wet Ink Short Story Award in 2010 - judges for the inaugural award : Emily Stinson and Sally Breen, with the final decision to be made by Peter Goldsworthy - and two new sections for the Prime Minister's Literary Awards in 2010. The two new awards will be for Children's fiction and Young Adult's fiction with judges for both categories to be Robyn Sheahan-Bright, Mike Shuttleworth and Mary-Ruth Mendel.
