NAWE NEWS AAWP/UWRF Translators’ Prize This is our newest prize, offered in partnership with Ubud Writers and Readers Festival (UWRF). The prize is open to translators at any stage of their career. The winner receives a ticket to UWRF, accommodation for the duration of the festival, and up to $1000 towards economy airfares. In addition, the winner receives a one-year membership to the AAWP, as well as fullysubsidised conference fees to attend our annual conference. The winning entry will be considered for publication in Meniscus Literary Journal. Entries must be no more than 30 lines (poetry) or 3000 words (prose). Entrants can translate their own work or the work of others, into English. Entries must be accompanied by a ‘Translator’s Statement of Intention’ (up to 400 words). The aim of this prize is to promote the work of under-represented writers to a broader “English-using” audience—to celebrate the art of translation by building both local and global writing communities from within our broad geographical region. AAWP / UWRF Emerging Writers’ Prize This prize is offered in partnership with Ubud Writers and Readers Festival (UWRF). The prize is open to emerging writers of fiction or poetry. The prize includes a ticket to UWRF, accommodation for the duration of the festival, and $500 towards economy airfares. The winner receives a one-year membership to the AAWP, as well as fully-subsidised conference fees to attend our annual conference. The winning entry will be considered for publication in Meniscus Literary Journal. Entries should not exceed 30 lines (poetry) or 3000 words (prose). AAWP/ASSF Emerging Writers’ Short Story Prize This prize is offered in partnership with the Australian Short Story Festival (ASSF). The prize is aimed at emerging writers. The winner receives a ticket to the Australian Short Story Festival (held annually in October), as well as economy airfares, to and from
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the festival, and accommodation, for the duration of the festival. The winner also receives fully-subsidised conference fees to attend the AAWP’s annual conference. The winning entry will be considered for publication in Meniscus Literary Journal. Entries can be in any style or genre but should not exceed 3000 words. Full details of all of our prizes are available at: https:// www.aawp.org.au/news/opportunities/ The AAWP community wishes our NAWE friends good health and positive energy. We warmly welcome submissions to our suite of prizes from the NAWE community. Julia Prendergast Julia Prendergast is a writer of short and long-form fiction. She lives and works in Melbourne, Australia, on unceded Wurundjeri land. Julia’s novel, The Earth Does Not Get Fat, was published in 2018 and longlisted for the Indie Book Awards for debut fiction. Her short stories have been recognised and published: Lightship Anthology International Short Story Competition (UK), Ink Tears International Short Story Competition (UK), Glimmer Train International Short Story Competition (US), Séan Ó Faoláin International Short Story Competition (IE), TEXT, Elizabeth Jolley Prize, Josephine Ulrick Prize (AU). Julia’s short story collection is forthcoming (October 2022). Julia is Chair of the Australasian Association of Writing Programs (AAWP), the peak academic body representing the discipline of Creative Writing in Australasia. She is Senior Lecturer and Discipline Coordinator at Swinburne University. Julia is a practice-led researcher—an enthusiastic supporter of transdisciplinary, open and collaborative research practices, with a particular interest in neuropsychoanalytic approaches to writing and creativity. Her research has appeared in various publications including New Writing (UK), TEXT (AU), Testimony Witness Authority: The Politics and Poetics of Experience (UK).
