It's the time of year that publisher Allen & Unwin run the The Australian/Vogel's Literary Award, which is an exciting time of the year if you happen to be an unpublished author living in Australia under the age of thirty-five. As I happen to fit into that narrow corridor of eligibility, colour me excited!
Honestly, it's a good award run as a joint venture between two publishing giants, has a minimal entry fee, and results in a prize payout of $20,000 and a publishing contract with Allen and Unwin. I'll post the submission guidelines below.
The deadline is the 31st of May this year, so if you've got a manuscript you're ready to submit you might want to consider entering. This has been a public service announcement by me.
Submission Guidelines
• Entrants must be aged under 35 years of age on 31 May 2013 (that is born after 31 May 1978).
• Entries must be lodged by 31 May 2013.
• Entrants must normally be residents of Australia.
• The manuscript submitted with the entry form should be a work of fiction, Australian history or biography.
• It must be a minimum length of 30,000 words and a maximum of 100,000 words.
• The manuscript must be an original work, entirely by the entrant and it must be written in English.
• It cannot be under consideration to any other publisher or entered into any other award.
• No more than 10% of the manuscript can have been previously published in print form, or in electronic form, on a commercial basis.
• Allen & Unwin will publish the winning entry, and will have exclusive worldwide publishing rights to it, and to any other entry they feel is of sufficient merit.
• Entry fee of $25 is applicable to each manuscript entered.
• The judges’ decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
• The judges shall have the discretion to divide the prize equally between authors of entries they consider to be of equal merit. If, in their opinion, no entry is worthy of the prize, no winner shall be chosen. No entrant may win the prize in successive years.
• The winner will be told in strict confidence during September 2013, at which time the winner must agree to keep this news absolutely confidential until the simultaneous announcement and publication of the winning entry in 2014.
• Each entrant is required to agree to the above conditions of entry.
• Breach of any conditions of entry will render an entry invalid.
Honestly, it's a good award run as a joint venture between two publishing giants, has a minimal entry fee, and results in a prize payout of $20,000 and a publishing contract with Allen and Unwin. I'll post the submission guidelines below.
The deadline is the 31st of May this year, so if you've got a manuscript you're ready to submit you might want to consider entering. This has been a public service announcement by me.
Submission Guidelines
• Entrants must be aged under 35 years of age on 31 May 2013 (that is born after 31 May 1978).
• Entries must be lodged by 31 May 2013.
• Entrants must normally be residents of Australia.
• The manuscript submitted with the entry form should be a work of fiction, Australian history or biography.
• It must be a minimum length of 30,000 words and a maximum of 100,000 words.
• The manuscript must be an original work, entirely by the entrant and it must be written in English.
• It cannot be under consideration to any other publisher or entered into any other award.
• No more than 10% of the manuscript can have been previously published in print form, or in electronic form, on a commercial basis.
• Allen & Unwin will publish the winning entry, and will have exclusive worldwide publishing rights to it, and to any other entry they feel is of sufficient merit.
• Entry fee of $25 is applicable to each manuscript entered.
• The judges’ decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
• The judges shall have the discretion to divide the prize equally between authors of entries they consider to be of equal merit. If, in their opinion, no entry is worthy of the prize, no winner shall be chosen. No entrant may win the prize in successive years.
• The winner will be told in strict confidence during September 2013, at which time the winner must agree to keep this news absolutely confidential until the simultaneous announcement and publication of the winning entry in 2014.
• Each entrant is required to agree to the above conditions of entry.
• Breach of any conditions of entry will render an entry invalid.
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