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

  1. 1 2 "2006 Award winner Alice Nelson with TAG Hungerford". WritingWA. 2007-07-02. Archived from the original on 2007-02-06. Retrieved 2007-07-13.
  2. ↑ "T.A.G. Hungerford". Perth Theatre Company. Archived from the original on 2007-08-30. Retrieved 2007-07-13.
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