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The South Australian Literary Awards, until 2024 known as the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature, comprise a group of biennially-granted literary awards established in 1986 by the Government of South Australia. Formerly announced during Adelaide Writers' Week in March, as part of the Adelaide Festival, from 2024 the awards are announced in a dedicated ceremony in October. 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

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The Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature were created by the Government of South Australia in 1986 and awarded during Writers' Week as part of the Adelaide Festival.[1][2]

In 2020, the State Library of South Australia (SLSA) took over administration of the awards from Arts South Australia, and library director Geoff Strempel felt that the awards being presented in the late afternoon right at the end of a busy Writers' Week meant that they did not get the attention they deserved, especially compared with its interstate equivalents.[3][4]

From 2024, the awards are renamed the South Australian Literary Awards[5] (a name in line with its interstate equivalents),and the awards ceremony takes place in the Mortlock Chamber of the SLSA towards the end of the year, away from the festival season.[3] The first of the rebranded awards takes place in October 2024. The shortlist was announced on 9 August 2024.[2]

Description

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The Premier's Award is the richest prize, worth A$25,000, and awarded for the best overall published work which has already won an award in one of the other categories.[6][2] There is a total prize pool of A$167,500, which is distributed 11 categories, including the Premier's Award. There are six national and five South Australian categories.[3]

Other national awards, worth A$15,000 (equivalent to $16,853 in 2022) each as of 2024, are the Fiction Award, Children's Literature Award, Young Adult 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Australian awards and fellowships are the Jill Blewett Playwright's Award, the Arts South Australia/Wakefield Press Unpublished Manuscript Award, the Barbara Hanrahan Fellowship, the Max Fatchen Fellowship (in honour of Adelaide author and journalist Max Fatchen), and the Tangkanungku Pintyanthi Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Fellowship.[2][1] Applications for each year's awards are open until mid-December of the preceding year.[3]

The awards are jointly funded by the SA government and the Libraries Board of South Australia.[3]

National awards

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Premier's Award

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Winners:[1]

Fiction Award

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Winners:[1]

Children's Literature Award

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Winners:[1]

Young Adult Fiction Award

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(Offered 2012– ) Winners:[1]

John Bray Poetry Award

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Honours John Jefferson Bray (1912–1995), Chief Justice of South Australia, academic and poet for his distinguished services to Australian poetry.[13] Winners:[1]

Non-Fiction Award

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Winners:[1]

South Australian awards & fellowships

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Jill Blewett Playwright's Award

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(Offered 1992− ) Winners:[1]

  • 1992 Bran Nue Dae by Jimmy Chi (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, Patricia Cornelius, Melissa Reeves & Christos Tsiolkas (Melbourne Workers Theatre)
  • 2002 Small Faith by Josh Tyler
  • 2004 Beautiful Words: A Trilogy by Sean Riley
  • 2006 This Uncharted Hour by Finegan Kruckemeyer
  • 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[7][8]
  • 2022 Calendar Days by Peter Beaglehole[9]
  • 2024 Paradise lost by Melissa-Kelly Franklin[10]

Arts SA/Wakefield Press Unpublished Manuscript Award

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(Offered 1998– )[1]

  • 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[7][8]
  • 2022 The Comforting Weight of Water by Roanna McClelland[9]
  • 2024 Salt Upon the Water by Lyn Dickens[10]

Barbara Hanrahan Fellowship

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(Offered 1994– ) Winners:[1]

  • 1994 Barry Westburg
  • 1996 Moya Costello
  • 1998 Cath Kenneally
  • 2000 Jan Owen
  • 2002 Graham Rowlands
  • 2004 Kirsty Brooks
  • 2006 Mike Ladd
  • 2008 Steve Evans
  • 2010 Patrick Allington
  • 2012 Nicki Bloom
  • 2014 Jennifer Mills
  • 2016 Carol Lefevre
  • 2018 Jude Aquilina
  • 2020 Aidan Coleman[7][8]
  • 2022 Rachel Mead[9]
  • 2024 Radiance: a state of being by Molly Murn[10]

Max Fatchen (formerly Carclew) Fellowship

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(Carclew Fellowship 1988–2012;[14] renamed Max Fatchen Fellowship from 2014, in honour of children's writer Max Fatchen, who died in 2012.[15][6]) Winners:[1]

  • 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[16]
  • 2014 Helen Dinmore (writing as Catherine Norton[15])
  • 2016 Marianne Musgrove
  • 2018 Danielle Clode
  • 2020 Sally Heinrich[7][8]
  • 2022 Poppy Nwosu[9]
  • 2024 The children of Elphinstone, by James A Cooper[10]

Tangkanungku Pintyanthi Fellowship

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(Offered 2014– ; full name Tangkanungku Pintyanthi Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Fellowship) Winners:[1]

Historic awards

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Innovation award

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(Offered 2004–2010)
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The Mayne Award for Multimedia

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Formerly the Faulding Award for Multimedia (offered 1998 to 2004).
Winners:[1]

  • 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 (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

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o "Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature – Past Literary Award Winners". State Library of South Australia. Retrieved 18 April 2024.
  2. ^ a b c d "2024 South Australian Literary Awards". Stories from the stacks. 9 August 2024. Retrieved 15 September 2024.
  3. ^ a b c d e Keen, Suzie (6 November 2023). "SA's top literary awards to be uncoupled from Writers Week". InDaily. Retrieved 15 September 2024.
  4. ^ "New look and feel for state's highest literary awards". WE ARE.SA. 4 December 2023. Retrieved 15 September 2024.
  5. ^ "2024 South Australian Literary Awards". State Library of South Australia. Retrieved 6 November 2023.
  6. ^ a b "Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature: 2020 Guidelines" (PDF).
  7. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature winners announced". Books+Publishing. 2 March 2020. Archived from the original on 9 April 2020. Retrieved 5 March 2020.
  8. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature". State Library of South Australia. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
  9. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature showcase excellence". ArtsHub Australia. 5 March 2022. Retrieved 8 March 2022.
  10. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "2024 South Australian Literary Awards". State Library of South Australia. Retrieved 17 October 2024.
  11. ^ "Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature 2016 winners announced". Books and Publishing. 29 February 2016. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
  12. ^ "Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature winners announced". Books+Publishing. 8 March 2022. Retrieved 20 March 2022.
  13. ^ Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature: John Bray poetry award (archived page)
  14. ^ Not to be confused with fellowships now awarded by Carclew"Fellowships". Carclew. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
  15. ^ a b Arts South Australia (21 March 2018). "2018 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature". Issuu. p. 32. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
  16. ^ "2012 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature". Adelaide Festival Archives. Writers Week. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
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