The Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature comprise a group of

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ly-granted literary awards established in 1986 by the Government of South Australia, announced during

Adelaide Writers' Week Adelaide Writers' Week, known locally as Writers' Week or WW, is a large and mostly free literary festival held annually in Adelaide, the capital of South Australia. Considered one of the world's pre-eminent literary events, it forms part of the ...

, as part of the

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. The awards include national as well as state-based prizes, and offer three fellowships for South Australian writers. Several categories have been added to the original four.

History and description

The Awards were created by the South Australian government in 1986. They are currently administered by the State Library of South Australia and awarded during Writers' Week as part of the Adelaide Festival. The Premier's Award is the richest prize, worth , and awarded for the best overall published work which has already won an award in one of the other categories. Other national awards, worth each as of 2018, are the Fiction Award, Children's Literature Award, Young Adult's Fiction Award, John Bray Poetry Award, and the Non-Fiction Award. South Australian awards and fellowships are the Jill Blewett Playwright's Award, the

Arts South Australia Arts South Australia (previously Arts SA) was responsible for managing the South Australian Government's funding for the arts and cultural heritage from about 1996 until late 2018, when it was progressively dismantled, a process complete by early ...

/ Wakefield Press Unpublished Manuscript Award, the

Barbara Hanrahan Barbara Janice Hanrahan (1939–1991) was an Australian artist, printmaker and writer whose work featured relationships, women, women's issues and feminist ideology. Hanrahan was also known for her writings and short stories featuring coming ...

Fellowship, the Max Fatchen Fellowship and the Tangkanungku Pintyanthi Fellowship.

National awards

Premier's Award

Winners: * 1996 ''The Future Eaters'' by

Tim Flannery Timothy Fridtjof Flannery (born 28 January 1956) is an Australian mammalogist, palaeontologist, environmentalist, conservationist, explorer, author, science communicator, activist and public scientist. He was awarded Australian of the Yea ...

(Reed Books) * 1998 ''The Drowner'' by

Robert Drewe Robert Duncan Drewe (born 9 January 1943) is an Australian novelist, non-fiction and short story writer. Biography Robert Drewe was born on 9 January 1943 in Melbourne, Victoria. At the age of six, he moved with his family to Perth. He grew ...

(

Pan MacMillan Pan Books is a publishing imprint that first became active in the 1940s and is now part of the British-based Macmillan Publishers, owned by the Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group of Germany. Pan Books began as an independent publisher, es ...

) * 2000 '' Mr Darwin's Shooter'' by Roger McDonald (

Vintage Books Vintage Books is a trade paperback publishing imprint of Penguin Random House originally established by Alfred A. Knopf in 1954. The company was purchased by Random House in April 1960, and a British division was set up in 1990. After Random ...

) * 2002 ''

True History of the Kelly Gang ''True History of the Kelly Gang'' is a novel by Australian writer Peter Carey, based loosely on the history of the Kelly Gang. It was first published in Brisbane by the University of Queensland Press in 2000. It won the 2001 Booker Prize an ...

'' by Peter Carey (

University of Queensland Press Established in 1948, University of Queensland Press (UQP) is an Australian publishing house. Founded as a traditional university press, UQP has since branched into publishing books for general readers in the areas of fiction, non-fiction, poetr ...

) * 2004 '' Wild Surmise'' by Dorothy Porter (

Picador A ''picador'' (; pl. ''picadores'') is one of the pair of horse-mounted bullfighters in a Spanish-style bullfight that jab the bull with a lance. They perform in the ''tercio de varas'', which is the first of the three stages in a stylized bullf ...

) * 2006 ''

Sixty Lights ''Sixty Lights'' is a 2004 novel by Australian author Gail Jones. Themes The novel explores the themes of the family relationships, marriage, death and loss. Dedication "For my brothers, Peter and Kevin Jones." Awards *Booker Prize, 2004: lo ...

'' by Gail Jones (

) * 2008 ''Urban Myths: 210 Poems'' by John Tranter (

) * 2010 ''Tales from Outer Suburbia'' by

Shaun Tan Shaun Tan (born 1973) is an Australian artist, writer and film maker. He won an Academy Award for '' The Lost Thing'', a 2011 animated film adaptation of a 2000 picture book he wrote and illustrated. Other books he has written and illustrated inc ...

( Allen and Unwin) * 2012 '' That Deadman Dance'' by

Kim Scott Kim Scott (born 18 February 1957) is an Australian novelist of Aboriginal Australian ancestry. He is a descendant of the Noongar people of Western Australia. Biography Scott was born in Perth in 1957 and is the eldest of four siblings with a ...

(Picador Australia) * 2014 ''

Cold Light ''Cold Light'' ( is, Kaldaljós) is a 2004 Icelandic film directed by Hilmar Oddsson. Cast Release ''Cold Light'' premiered in Iceland on 1 January 2004. It was released on 26 September 2005. Awards It was Iceland's submission to the 77th ...

'' by

Frank Moorhouse Frank Thomas Moorhouse (21 December 1938 – 26 June 2022) was an Australian writer. He won major Australian national prizes for the short story, the novel, the essay, and for script writing. His work has been published in the United Kingdom, ...

* 2016 ''Figgy in the World'' by Tamsin Janu * 2018 ''The Last Garden'' by

Eva Hornung Eva Sallis (also Eva HornungDog’s ...

*2020 ''Nevermoor: The trials of Morrigan Crow'' by Jessica Townsend (Lothian) *2022 ''

The Yield ''The Yield'' is a 2019 novel by Tara June Winch. She won the 2020 Miles Franklin Award for this book. The book also won the 2020 Voss Literary Prize and the 2020 Prime Minister's Literary Award for fiction. The novel follows the story of a you ...

'' by

Tara June Winch Tara June Winch (born 1983) is an Australian writer. She is the 2020 winner of the Miles Franklin Award for her book ''The Yield''. Biography Tara June Winch was born in Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia in 1983. Her father is from the Wi ...

Fiction Award

Winners: * 1986 '' The Children's Bach'' by Helen Garner (McPhee Gribble) * 1988 ''Julia Paradise'' by Rod Jones (McPhee Gribble) * 1990 ''

Oscar and Lucinda ''Oscar and Lucinda'' is a novel by Australian author Peter Carey which won the 1988 Booker Prize and the 1989 Miles Franklin Award. It was shortlisted for The Best of the Booker. Plot introduction It tells the story of Oscar Hopkins, th ...

'' by Peter Carey (

) * 1992 '' The Great World'' by

David Malouf David George Joseph Malouf AO (; born 20 March 1934) is an Australian poet, novelist, short story writer, playwright and librettist. Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2008, Malouf has lectured at both the University of Que ...

(Chatto & Windus) * 1994 ''Grand Days'' by

(William Heinemann Australia) * 1996 ''

Death of a River Guide Death is the Irreversible process, irreversible cessation of all biological process, biological functions that sustain an organism. For organisms with a brain, death can also be defined as the irreversible cessation of functioning of the whol ...

'' by Richard Flanagan (McPhee Gribble/Penguin) * 1998 ''The Drowner'' by

(

) * 2000 '' Mr Darwin's Shooter'' by Roger McDonald (

) * 2002 ''

'' by Peter Carey (

) * 2004 ''

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'' by

Kate Jennings Catherine Ruth Jennings (20 May 1948 – 1 May 2021) was an Australian poet, essayist, memoirist, and novelist. Biography Jennings grew up on a farm near Griffith, New South Wales. She attended the University of Sydney in the late 1960s, gradua ...

(

) * 2006 ''

'' by Gail Jones (

) * 2008 '' The Ballad of Desmond Kale'' by Roger McDonald (

) * 2010 '' Ransom by

(Knopf/Random House) * 2012 '' That Deadman Dance'' by

(Picador Australia) * 2014 ''

'' by

* 2016 ''To Name Those Lost'' by

Rohan Wilson Rohan Wilson is an Australian novelist who was born and raised in Launceston, Tasmania, where he currently lives. He holds degrees and diplomas from the universities of Tasmania, Southern Queensland and Melbourne. In 2003 he travelled to Jap ...

* 2018 ''The Last Garden'' by

Eva Hornung Eva Sallis (also Eva HornungDog’s ...

*2020 ''

The Death of Noah Glass ''The Death of Noah Glass'' (2018) is a novel by Australian author Gail Jones. Plot summary ''The Death of Noah Glass'' concerns three main characters: the eponymous Noah Glass and his children Evie and Martin. Noah has been found dead face do ...

'' by Gail Jones (Text) *2022 ''

'' by

Children's Literature Award

Winners: * 1986 ''The Long Night Watch'' by Ivan Southall ( Methuen) * 1988 '' Space Demons'' by Gillian Rubinstein (

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) * 1990 ''Beyond the Labyrinth'' by Gillian Rubinstein (Hyland House) * 1992 ''The House Guest'' by Eleanor Nilsson (

Viking Penguin Viking Press (formally Viking Penguin, also listed as Viking Books) is an American publishing company owned by Penguin Random House. It was founded in New York City on March 1, 1925, by Harold K. Guinzburg and George S. Oppenheim and then acquire ...

) * 1994 ''Angel's Gate'' by Gary Crew ( William Heinemann Australia) * 1996 ''The Third Day, The Frost'' by John Marsden (

) * 1998 ''The Listmaker'' by

Robin Klein Robin McMaugh Klein (born 28 February 1936) is an Australian author of books for children. She was born in Kempsey, New South Wales, Australia, and now resides near Melbourne. Early life Robin Klein is one of nine children. She had her first ...

(Viking Penguin) * 2000 ''Deadly, Unna?'' by Phillip Gwynne ( Puffin Penguin) * 2002 ''

Lirael ''Lirael'' (called ''Lirael: Daughter of the Clayr'' in some regions) is a fantasy novel by Garth Nix, first published in 2001. Named for its central female character, ''Lirael'' is the second in his Old Kingdom trilogy, preceded by ''Sabriel'' ...

'' by

Garth Nix Garth Richard Nix (born 19 July 1963) is an Australian writer who specialises in children's and young adult fantasy novels, notably the '' Old Kingdom'', '' Seventh Tower'' and '' Keys to the Kingdom'' series. He has frequently been asked if hi ...

(

HarperCollins HarperCollins Publishers LLC is one of the Big Five English-language publishing companies, alongside Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster, Hachette, and Macmillan. The company is headquartered in New York City and is a subsidiary of News ...

) * 2004 ''Abyssinia'' by

Ursula Dubosarsky Ursula Dubosarsky (born ''Ursula Coleman''; 1961 in Sydney) is an Australian writer of fiction and non-fiction for children and young adults, whose work is characterised by a child's vision and comic voice of both clarity and ambiguity. She ha ...

(

) * 2006 ''It's Not All About You, Calma!'' by Barry Jonsberg ( Allen and Unwin) * 2008 '' Don't Call Me Ishmael'' by Michael Gerard Bauer (Omnibus Scholastic) * 2010 ''Tales from Outer Suburbia'' by

( Allen and Unwin) * 2012 ''Taj and the Great Camel Trek'' by Roseanne Hawke (

) * 2014 ''A Very Unusual Pursuit'' by Catherine Jinks * 2016 ''Figgy in the World'' by Tamsin Janu * 2018 ''Dragonfly Song'' by Wendy Orr *2020 ''Nevermoor: The trials of Morrigan Crow'' by Jessica Townsend (Lothian) *2022 ''We are Wolves'' by Katrina Nannestad

Young Adult Fiction Award

(Offered 2012– ) Winners: * 2012 ''All I Ever Wanted'' by Vikki Wakefield * 2014 ''Friday Brown'' by Vikki Wakefield * 2016 ''Are You Seeing Me?'' by Darren Groth * 2018 ''My Sister Rosa'' by

Justine Larbalestier Justine Larbalestier ( )' (born 23 September 1967) is an Australian writer of young adult fiction best known for her 2009 novel, '' Liar''. Personal life Larbalestier was born and raised in Sydney. She now alternates residence between Sydney ...

*2020 ''Small Spaces'' by Sarah Epstein (Walker Books) *2022 ''The Gaps'' by Leanne Hall

John Bray Poetry Award

Honours

John Jefferson Bray John Jefferson Bray, (16 September 1912 – 26 June 1995) was an Australian lawyer, judge, academic, university administrator, Crown officer, and poet. From 1967 to 1978, he served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australi ...

(1912–1995), Chief Justice of South Australia, academic and poet for his distinguished services to Australian poetry. Winners: * 1986 ''Selected Poems – 1963–1983'' by Robert Gray (Angus & Robertson) * 1988 ''The Daylight Moon'' by Les Murray (Angus & Robertson) * 1990 ''Bone Scan'' by

Gwen Harwood Gwen Harwood (née Gwendoline Nessie Foster, 8 June 19205 December 1995) was an Australian poet and librettist. Harwood is regarded as one of Australia's finest poets, publishing over 420 works, including 386 poems and 13 librettos. She won nu ...

(Angus & Robertson) * 1992 ''Last Poems'' by

Vincent Buckley Vincent Thomas Buckley (8 July 1925 – 12 November 1988) was an Australian poet, teacher, editor, essayist and critic. Life Buckley was born in 1925 in Romsey, Victoria to Patrick Buckley, a carter and sometime farm labourer, and his wife Fr ...

(McPhee Gribble) * 1994 ''Between Glances'' by Andrew Lansdown (Fremantle Arts Centre Press) * 1996 ''The Silo: A Pastoral Symphony'' by John Kinsella (Fremantle Arts Centre Press) * 1998 ''The Blue Cloud of Crying'' by Peter Boyle (Hale & Ironmonger) * 2000 ''The Harbour'' by Dimitris Tsaloumas (

) * 2002 ''Around Here'' by Cath Kenneally ( Wakefield Press) * 2004 '' Wild Surmise'' by Dorothy Porter (

) * 2006 ''Totem'' by Luke Davies ( Allen and Unwin) * 2008 ''Urban Myths: 210 Poems'' by John Tranter (

) * 2010 ''The Other Way Out'' by Bronwyn Lea (Giramondo poets) * 2012 ''Taller When Prone'' by Les Murray (Black Inc) * 2014 ''The Sunlit Zone'' by Lisa Jacobson (Five Islands Press) * 2016 ''Waiting for the Past'' by Les Murray * 2018 ''Missing up'' by

Pam Brown Pamela Jane Barclay Brown (born 1948) is an Australian poet. Career Pam Brown was born in Seymour, Victoria. Most of her childhood was spent on military bases in Toowoomba and Brisbane. Since her early twenties, she has lived in Melbourne a ...

*2020 ''Archival-Poetics'' by Natalie Harkin (Vagabond) *2022 ''Fifteeners'' by

Jordie Albiston Jordie Albiston (30 September 1961 – 28 February 2022) was an Australian poet. Early life Jordie Albiston grew up in Melbourne, the second of four children. She studied music at the Victorian College of the Arts before completing a doct ...

Non-Fiction Award

Winners: * 1986 ''A History of Prince Alfred College'' by R M Gibbs (Peacock Publications) * 1988 ''The Myriad Faces of War'' by Trevor Wilson (Polity/Blackwells) * 1990 ''Satura'' by John Bray ( Wakefield Press) * 1992 ''Patrick White – A Life'' by David Marr ( Random House Australia) * 1994 ''Sort of a Place Like Home: Remembering the Moore River Native Settlement'' by Susan Maushart (Fremantle Arts Centre Press) * 1996 ''The Future Eaters'' by

(Reed Books) * 1998 ''Claiming a Continent: A History of Australia'' by David Day (

) * 2000 ''Throw'im Way Leg: An Adventure'' by

(

Text Publishing Text Publishing is an independent Australian publisher of fiction and non-fiction, based in Melbourne, Victoria. Company background Text Media was founded in Melbourne in 1990 by Diana Gribble and Eric Beecher, along with designer Chong Weng ...

) * 2002 ''Leviathan: the unauthorised biography of Sydney'' by

John Birmingham John Birmingham (born 7 August 1964) is a British-born Australian author, known for the 1994 memoir ''He Died with a Felafel in His Hand'', and his ''Axis of Time'' trilogy. Early life and education Birmingham was born in Liverpool, United ...

( Random House Australia) * 2004 ''Unearthed: The Aboriginal Tasmanians of Kangaroo Island'' by

Rebe Taylor Rebe Taylor is an English-born Australian historian and author specialising in southeast Australian indigenous peoples and European settlement. Early life Taylor was born in London and came to live in Adelaide, South Australia with her family a ...

( Wakefield Press) * 2006 ''Velocity'' by Mandy Sayer (

) * 2008 ''Sunrise West'' by Jacob G Rosenberg ( Brandl & Schlesinger) * 2010 ''Stella

Miles Franklin Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin (14 October 187919 September 1954), known as Miles Franklin, was an Australian writer and feminist who is best known for her novel ''My Brilliant Career'', published by Blackwoods of Edinburgh in 1901. While ...

'' by Jill Roe (Fourth Estate /

) * 2012 ''An Eye for Eternity: The Life of Manning Clark'' by Mark McKenna * 2014 ''Madness: A Memoir'' by Kate Richards * 2016 ''What Days Are For'' by Robert Dessaix * 2018 ''The Boy Behind the Curtain'' by

Tim Winton Timothy John Winton (born 4 August 1960) is an Australian writer. He has written novels, children's books, non-fiction books, and short stories. In 1997, he was named a Living Treasure by the National Trust of Australia, and has won the Miles Fr ...

*2020 ''The Bible in Australia'' by

Meredith Lake Meredith Lake (born 1980) is an Australian author, historian of religion and broadcaster. Early life and education Lake grew up in Sydney in a devout Anglican household. She has a PhD from the University of Sydney, exploring religious narra ...

(NewSouth) *2022 ''Olive Cotton: A Life in Photography'' by Helen Ennis

South Australian awards & fellowships

Jill Blewett Playwright's Award

(Offered 1992− ) Winners: * 1992 ''

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'' by

Jimmy Chi James Ronald Chi (1948 – 26 June 2017) was an Australian composer, musician and playwright. His best known work is the 1990 musical ''Bran Nue Dae'' which was adapted for film in 2009. Early life Chi was born in Broome, Western Australia in ...

(Kuckles and Bran Nue Dae Productions) * 1994 ''Sweetown'' by Melissa Reeves (Red Shed) * 1996 ''Because You Are Mine'' by Daniel Keene (Red Shed) * 1998 ''Wolf Lullaby'' by Hilary Bell (Griffin Theatre Company) * 2000 ''Who's Afraid of the Working Class?'' by

Andrew Bovell Andrew Bovell (born 23 November 1962) is an Australian writer for theatre, film and television. Life Bovell was born on 23 November 1962 in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia and completed his secondary school education in Perth. He graduated from t ...

, Patricia Cornelius, Melissa Reeves &

Christos Tsiolkas Christos Tsiolkas is an Australian author, playwright, and screenwriter. He is especially known for '' The Slap'', which was both well-received critically and highly successful commercially. Several of his books have been adapted for film and t ...

(Melbourne Workers Theatre) * 2002 ''Small Faith'' by Josh Tyler * 2004 '' Beautiful Words: A Trilogy'' by Sean Riley * 2006 ''This Uncharted Hour'' by

Finegan Kruckemeyer Finegan Kruckemeyer (born 1981) is an Australian playwright. Early life Kruckemeyer was born in 1981 in Cork, Ireland, of a German father and Irish mother. The family moved to Adelaide, South Australia when Finegan was eight years old, and he ...

* 2008 ''Merger – art, life and the other thing'' by Duncan Graham * 2010 ''This Place'' by Nina Pearce * 2012 ''A Cathedral'' by Nicki Bloom * 2014 ''Replay'' by Philip Kavanagh * 2016 ''Cut'' by Duncan Graham AND ''Blessed'' by Fleur Kilpatrick (joint winners) * 2018 ''19 weeks'' by Emily Steel *2020 ''Forgiveness'' by Piri Eddy *2022 ''Calendar Days'' by Peter Beaglehole

Arts SA/Wakefield Press Unpublished Manuscript Award

(Offered 1998– ) * 1998 ''Counting The Rivers'' by Pearlie McNeil * 2000 (No winner) * 2002 ''The Black Dream'' by Corrie Hosking * 2004 ''Goddamn Bus of Happiness'' by Stefan Laszczuk * 2006 ''The Quakers'' by Rachel Hennessy * 2008 ''The Second Fouling Mark'' by Stephen Orr * 2010 ''End of the Night Girl'' by Amy T Matthews * 2012 ''The First Week'' by Margaret Merrilees * 2014 ''Here Where We Live'' by Cassie Flanagan-Willanski * 2016 ''Mallee Boys'' by Charlie Archbold * 2018 ''A New Name for the Colour Blue'' by Annette Marner *2020 ''In the Room with the She Wolf'' by Jelena Dinic *2022 ''The Comforting Weight of Water'' by Roanna McClelland

Barbara Hanrahan Fellowship

(Offered 1994– ) Winners: * 1994 Barry Westburg * 1996 Moya Costello * 1998 Cath Kenneally * 2000 Jan Owen * 2002 Graham Rowlands * 2004 Kirsty Brooks * 2006

Mike Ladd (poet) Mike Ladd (born 1959) is an Australian poet and radio presenter. Mike Ladd was born in Berkeley, California while his Australian parents were living and working in the United States, but he returned to Australia when he was one year old, and gr ...

* 2008 Steve Evans * 2010

Patrick Allington Patrick may refer to: *Patrick (given name), list of people and fictional characters with this name * Patrick (surname), list of people with this name People *Saint Patrick (c. 385–c. 461), Christian saint * Gilla Pátraic (died 1084), Patrick ...

* 2012 Nicki Bloom * 2014

Jennifer Mills Jennifer Mills (born 1977) is an Australian novelist, short story writer and poet. Career Mills lived in Alice Springs. She was the winner of the 2008 Marian Eldridge Award for Young Emerging Women Writers, the Pacific Region of the 2008-9 Comm ...

* 2016 Carol Lefevre * 2018 Jude Aquilina *2020 Aidan Coleman *2022 Rachel Mead

Max Fatchen (formerly Carclew) Fellowship

(Carclew Fellowship 1988–2012; renamed Max Fatchen Fellowship from 2014, in honour of children's writer Max Fatchen, who died in 2012.) Winners: * 1988 Geoff Goodfellow * 1990 Anne-Marie Mykyta * 1992 Anne Brookman * 1994 Peter McFarlane * 1996 Chris Tugwell * 1998 Phil Cummings * 2000 Ian Bone * 2002 Ruth Starke * 2004 Marguerite Hann-Syme * 2006 Christine Harris * 2008 Rosanne Hawke * 2010 Nicole Plüss * 2012

Janeen Brian Janeen Brian (born 1948), is a South Australian writer of children's books. A primary school teacher prior to 1990, when she started writing full time, she published her 100th book in September, 2016. Brian's work for middle school children ''Y ...

* 2014 Helen Dinmore (writing as Catherine Norton) * 2016 Marianne Musgrove * 2018 Danielle Clode *2020 Sally Heinrich *2022 Poppy Nwosu

Tangkanungku Pintyanthi Fellowship

(Offered 2014– ; full name Tangkanungku Pintyanthi Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Fellowship) Winners: * 2014 Ali Cobby Eckermann for ''Hopes Crossing'' * 2016 Ali Cobby Eckermann for ''Too Afraid to Cry'' * 2018 Edoardo Crismani * 2022 Karen Wyld

Historic awards

Innovation award

(Offered 2004–2010)
Winners: * 2004 ''The Eastern Slope Chronicle'' by Ouyang Yu (Brandl and Schlesinger) * 2006 by MTC Cronin (Shearsman Books) * 2008 ''Someone Else: Fictional Essays'' by John Hughes (

Giramondo Publishing Giramondo Publishing (Giramondo Publishing Company) is an independent Australian literary small press founded in 1995. It is a publisher of poetry, fiction and non-fiction by Australian and overseas writers, and works in translation from Chinese, ...

) * 2010 ''Barley Patch'' by

Gerald Murnane Gerald Murnane (born 25 February 1939) is an Australian writer, perhaps best known for his novel ''The Plains'' (1982). ''The New York Times'', in a big feature published on 27 March 2018, called him "the greatest living English-language writer ...

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The Mayne Award for Multimedia

Formerly the Faulding Award for Multimedia (offered 1998 to 2004).
Winners: * 1998 FlightPaths: Writing Journeys by Julie Clarke, Rob Finlayson, Tom Gibson, Denise Higgins, Bernie Jannsen, Nazid Kimmie and Adrian Marshall * 2000 Carrier by

Melinda Rackham Melinda Rackham is an Australian artist, writer and curator. Education and early art Rackham studied sculpture and performance at the College of Fine Arts in Sydney, graduating in 1989 with the Sculpture and Alumni prizes. It was here she was ...

(www.subtle.net/carrier) * 2002 Poems in a Flash @ The Stalking Tongue website Jayne Fenton Keane and David Keane (www.poetinresidence.com) * 2004 Concatenation by Geniwate

References

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History and description

National awards

Premier's Award

Fiction Award

Children's Literature Award

Young Adult Fiction Award

John Bray Poetry Award

Non-Fiction Award

South Australian awards & fellowships

Jill Blewett Playwright's Award

Arts SA/Wakefield Press Unpublished Manuscript Award

Barbara Hanrahan Fellowship

Max Fatchen (formerly Carclew) Fellowship

Tangkanungku Pintyanthi Fellowship

Historic awards

Innovation award

The Mayne Award for Multimedia

See also

References