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Writing<br />
Barbara Jefferis Award<br />
The Barbara Jefferis Award comprises of an annual prize of at least $35 000. It is awarded<br />
to “the best novel written by an Australian author that depicts women and girls in a positive<br />
way or otherwise empowers the status of women and girls in society”. The novel can be in<br />
any genre and does not have to be set in Australia.<br />
— www.asauthors.org/scripts/cgiip.exe/WService=ASP0016/ccms.r?PageId=10128<br />
New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards<br />
The New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards include the Christina Stead Prize for fiction,<br />
the Kenneth Slessor Prize for poetry and the Douglas Stewart Prize for non-fiction.<br />
— www.<strong>arts</strong>.nsw.gov.au<br />
Nita Kibble Literary Award<br />
The Nita Kibble Literary Awards for recognise the works of women writers who have<br />
published fiction or non-fiction classified as ‘life writing’. This includes novels,<br />
autobiographies, biographies, literature and any writing with a strong personal element.<br />
The 2011 prize was valued at $30 000.<br />
— www.perpetual.com.au/kibble/awards.htm<br />
Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards<br />
The Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards are open to all Australian writers and authors<br />
and currently offer prize money across 14 categories.<br />
— www.premiers.qld.gov.au/awards-and-recognition/literary-awards.aspx<br />
The Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature<br />
The Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature celebrate Australia’s writing culture by<br />
offering national and state-based literary awards. Awards are on offer in children’s<br />
literature, fiction, innovation, non-fiction and poetry. The awards judge the best works<br />
published in Australia in the previous two years. The 2012 national awards offer a total prize<br />
pool of $95 000.<br />
— www.<strong>arts</strong>.sa.gov.au<br />
The Australian Prime Minister’s Literary Awards<br />
The Prime Minister’s Literary Awards recognise literary excellence in Australian fiction,<br />
non-fiction, young adult fiction and children’s fiction. The winner of each category receives<br />
$80 000 tax free and the shortlisted authors in each category receive $5 000 tax free.<br />
— www.<strong>arts</strong>.gov.au/books/pmliteraryawards<br />
The Australian/Vogel Literary Award<br />
The Australian/Vogel Literary Award is an award for an unpublished manuscript by a writer<br />
under the age of 35 years. The award offers publication by Allen & Unwin and prize money<br />
totalling $20 000.<br />
— www.allenandunwin.com/default.aspx?page=442<br />
The Children’s Book Council of Australia Awards (CBCA)<br />
The CBCA awards have five categories in the Book of the Year Awards and numerous<br />
other awards presented annually by the National Office and CBCA branches in each state<br />
and territory.<br />
— www.cbca.org.au/awards.htm<br />
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