{"id":1162,"date":"2012-03-06T00:16:31","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T13:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=1162"},"modified":"2012-03-06T00:16:31","modified_gmt":"2012-03-05T13:16:31","slug":"adelaide-literature-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=1162","title":{"rendered":"Adelaide Literature Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"

Funny thing, awards. I would be lying if I said that I didn\u2019t care whether I won the Unpublished Manuscript Award or not. I would have loved to have. Winning awards is good for the reputation and gives a writer breathing space \u2013 if it\u2019s a generous payment \u2013 to get on and write. Of course I told everyone that I didn\u2019t really expect to win but there was that little optimist in the back of my head saying what if? <\/em>And I\u2019m not being glib when I say that I was honoured to have been shortlisted and found myself in such esteemed company.<\/em><\/p>\n

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We were in the onsen town of Gero in the snow-covered Alps of Honshu for the weekend. The traditional ryokan-style hotel had wi-fi in the lobby but it wasn\u2019t easy to get info on the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature on a Saturday night. (Now had it been a footy or test match, no probs, but Literature doesn\u2019t rate highly in Australian popular culture.) \"\"<\/a>There was nothing on Adelaide Now or ABC online. The editors had put the papers to bed. Even ArtsSA and the Adelaide Festival websites weren\u2019t updated. It took facebook and comments from fellow-contenders Rachael Mead and Belinda Broughton to find out that none of us had won. Incidentally, the winner of \u201cour\u201d section (let\u2019s be honest, we live in a very small pond and we\u2019re all self-obsessed!) was Margaret Merrilees whom I\u2019m ashamed to say that I knew nothing about, but I\u2019m looking at past work on her blog<\/a> and she\u2019s a very talented writer \u2013 although I\u2019m sure she doesn\u2019t need my imprimatur. We both belong to the South Australian Writers Centre, but as far as I know we’ve never met.<\/p>\n

Anyway, in case like me you weren\u2019t up-to-speed with the race results, here they are:<\/p>\n

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Children\u2019s literature award:\u00a0<\/strong>\u2028Rosanne Hawke, Taj and the Great Camel Trek<\/em> (University of Queensland Press)<\/p>\n

Young adult fiction award:<\/strong>\u2028 Vikki Wakefield, All I Ever Wanted <\/em>(Text Publishing)<\/p>\n

Fiction award:\u00a0<\/strong>\u2028Kim Scott, That Deadman Dance<\/em> (Picador Australia)<\/p>\n

John Bray poetry award:\u00a0<\/strong>\u2028Les Murray, Taller When Prone (Black Inc.)<\/p>\n

Non-Fiction award:\u00a0<\/strong>\u2028Mark McKenna, An Eye for Eternity,<\/em> (The Miegunyah Press)<\/p>\n

Unpublished manuscript award:\u00a0<\/strong>\u2028Margaret Merrilees, The First Week<\/em><\/p>\n

Jill Blewett playwright\u2019s award:\u00a0<\/strong>\u2028Nicki Bloom, A Cathedral<\/em><\/p>\n

Barbara Hanrahan fellowship:\u00a0<\/strong>\u2028Nicki Bloom, The Sun and the Other Stars<\/em><\/p>\n

The Carlew Fellowship:\u00a0<\/strong>\u2028Janeen Brian<\/p>\n

The Premier\u2019s Award:\u00a0<\/strong>\u2028Kim Scott, That Deadman Dance<\/em> (Picador Australia)<\/p>\n

Congratulations to all the award winners. I hope that your careers are enhanced by the prizes and that the money buys you valuable writing time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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