T. A. G. Hungerford Award

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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) a prominent Western Australian writer.[2]

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[edit] Award Winners

  • 2006: Alice Nelson, In Arcadia
  • 2004: Donna Mazza, The Albanian
  • 2002: Nathan Hobby, The Fur
  • 2000: Christopher Murray, A Whispering 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

[edit] Shortlisted authors

  • 2006: Varnya Bromilow, Deb Fitzpatrick and Alice Nelson

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b 2006 Award winner Alice Nelson with TAG Hungerford. WritingWA (2007-07-02). Retrieved on 2007-07-13.
  2. ^ "T.A.G. Hungerford". Retrieved on 2007-07-13. 

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