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Writing
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA)
The ASA is the peak professional association for Australia’s literary creators.
— www.asauthors.org
The Australian Writers’ Guild
The Australian Writers’ Guild provides professional development and support for
performance writers and acts as an advocate on their behalf to ensure work is properly
valued, protected and remunerated.
— www.awg.com.au
The Fellowship of Australian Writers
The Fellowship of Australian Writers is an Australia-wide body with branches in each state,
the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory. Non-political and non-sectarian, it
caters for both established writers and those interested in writing.
— www.fawtas.org.au
The Poets Union
The Poets Union is a not-for-profit, member-based organisation which encourages and
develops opportunities for poets and contemporary poetry in Australia.
— www.poetsunion.com/node
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Tasmanian awards
and prizes
Tasmania Book Prizes
The Tasmania Book Prizes is a biennial suite of prizes, delivered by Arts Tasmania in
partnership with the University of Tasmania. The prizes recognise, promote and encourage
the increasingly active and popular Tasmanian literary sector and publishing industry. As a
guide, the value of the 2011 Tasmania Book Prizes was $35 000.
— www.arts.tas.gov.au
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National awards
and prizes
Australian Book Review Calibre Award
The Calibre Prize is intended to generate brilliant new essays and to foster new insights
into culture, society and the human condition. They welcome essays from leading authors
and commentators, but also from emerging writers. All non-fiction subjects are eligible,
from life writing to literary studies, history to politics, biography to philosophy, natural
history to popular science, travel writing to environmental studies.
— www.australianbookreview.com.au/competitions/calibre-prize
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