T.A.G. Hungerford Award
The T. A. G. Hungerford Award is a biennial Australian literary award, first established in 1998. The award is to encourage new writers from Western Australia who have not previously been published in book form.[1]
Nominations are accepted for the award. Winners receive $6,000 in cash from New Edition Bookshop and a publishing contract with Fremantle Arts Centre Press. For nominations for the award, the guidelines and entry form are found at the WritingWA website.[1]
The Award has been named in honour of Tom Hungerford (b 1915, d 2011) a prominent Western Australian writer.[2]
Award winners
- 2014: Madelaine Dickie, Troppo
- 2012: Robert Edeson, "The Weaver Fish"
- 2010: Jacqueline Wright, Australian author, "The Telling" published as Red Dirt Talking in 2012.
- 2008: Natasha Lester, What is Left Over, After
- 2006: Alice Nelson, In Arcadia
- 2004: Donna Mazza, The Albanian
- 2002: Nathan Hobby, The Fur
- 2000: Christopher Murray, A Whispering of Fish
- 1995: Bruce Russell, Jacob's Air
- 1993: Simone Lazaroo, The World Waiting to be Made
- 1991: Gail Jones, The House of Breathing
- 1990: Brenda Walker, Crush
Shortlisted authors
- 2006: Varnya Bromilow, Deb Fitzpatrick and Alice Nelson
References
- ^ a b "2006 Award winner Alice Nelson with TAG Hungerford". WritingWA. 2007-07-02. Archived from the original on 2007-02-06. Retrieved 2007-07-13.
- ^ "T.A.G. Hungerford". Perth Theatre Company. Archived from the original on 2007-08-30. Retrieved 2007-07-13.