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AAWP Report (Australasia) Dear NAWE readers.
My name is Julia Prendergast. I am the current Chair of the Australasian Association of Writing Programs (AAWP). I oversee the Prizes and Partnerships portfolio. I am inordinately passionate about this portfolio, not only because of the opportunities we provide for writers and translators, but also for the partnerships we have forged with publishers and writing communities in Australia, and beyond. I am supported in managing the activities of this portfolio by the AAWP executive body, broadly, but in particular by the prizes team: Dr Katrina Finlayson and Dr Daniel Juckes. As we have just launched our 2022 suite of prizes, I thought I’d take this opportunity to share some of our Prizes and Partnerships initiatives. This portfolio abounds in positive energy generated by outreach and engagement. We provide publication pathways and networking avenues for writers and translators, with a particular focus on facilitating opportunities for emerging writers and under-represented voices. AAWP / WESTERLY Life Writing Prize
Chapter One Prize
This prize has just been launched and will run for the first time in 2022. The prize is offered in partnership with Westerly Magazine. We welcome submissions of autobiography, biography, memoir, and essays. We celebrate Life Writing as a rumination upon memory and experience and encourage creative and hybrid approaches. The prize is open to writers at all stages of their journey; emerging and established writers are welcome to enter. The prize recognises excellence in nonfiction, creative nonfiction and hybrid modes of storytelling. Hybrid storytelling is broadly conceived as storytelling that crosses traditional boundaries of nonfiction and creative nonfiction and/or is experimental in form. The winner will receive a $500 cash prize, a oneyear subscription to Westerly,
This was the very first prize we established. This opportunity is offered in partnership with the University of Western Australia Publishing (UWAP), a highly respected Australian Go8 publisher. The prize is aimed at emerging writers. It is open to authors who have written a poetry collection, a literary novel, a short story collection, or a hybrid work, crossing genre boundaries. The winner receives a $500 cash prize, as well as fullysubsidised fees to attend the AAWP’s annual conference (held in November, each year). The AAWP judge’s report is sent to UWAP, together with the winner’s manuscript, and UWAP agree to assess the manuscript as a matter of priority. Entries should not exceed 50 lines (poetry) or 5000 words (prose).
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