Deadline: 31 August 2010
Eligibility: open to Australian journalists or writers
Reading Fee: $260, free for financial members of the Media Alliance
Accepts (genre): journalistic non-fiction
Prize/Payment: no mention
Entries are now open for the 2010 Walkley Book Award.
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This unique Walkley Literary Award celebrates excellence in non-fiction writing. The growing contribution Australian authors are making to literature reinforces the vital role of journalism in the publishing landscape.
The Award is open to Australian journalists or writers. Entries can encompass subject matter including true crime and biographies through to political analysis, business writing, war reporting, investigative journalism and foreign correspondence.
The winner will join the ranks of Graham Freudenberg (Churchill and Australia), Don Watson (American Journeys), Chris Masters (Jonestown), Neil Chenoweth (Packer's Lunch) and Bob Connolly (Making Black Harvest).
The Walkley Book Award
This Walkley literary award specifically recognises journalism in book form, and is open to all examples of journalistic non-fiction works by Australian writers. Entries may cover a diversity of issues, from true crime and biographies through to political analysis, business, war reportage, investigative journalism and foreign correspondence, for example. Authors must be Australian citizens or residents of Australia. Titles can be an edited collection of no more than five authors. It can be on an Australian or international subject matter and/or historical in context.
Entries now open
The 2010 Walkley Book Award is now open for second round entries.
* First round entries close Wednesday 30 June, 2010 at 5pm (For books published between September 1, 2009 and June 30, 2010) CLOSED
* Second round entries close Tuesday August 31, 2010 at 5pm (For books published between July 1, 2010 and August 31, 2010)
More information here.
Eligibility: open to Australian journalists or writers
Reading Fee: $260, free for financial members of the Media Alliance
Accepts (genre): journalistic non-fiction
Prize/Payment: no mention
Entries are now open for the 2010 Walkley Book Award.
Kudelka iPad American Journeys Jonestown Packer's Lunch
This unique Walkley Literary Award celebrates excellence in non-fiction writing. The growing contribution Australian authors are making to literature reinforces the vital role of journalism in the publishing landscape.
The Award is open to Australian journalists or writers. Entries can encompass subject matter including true crime and biographies through to political analysis, business writing, war reporting, investigative journalism and foreign correspondence.
The winner will join the ranks of Graham Freudenberg (Churchill and Australia), Don Watson (American Journeys), Chris Masters (Jonestown), Neil Chenoweth (Packer's Lunch) and Bob Connolly (Making Black Harvest).
The Walkley Book Award
This Walkley literary award specifically recognises journalism in book form, and is open to all examples of journalistic non-fiction works by Australian writers. Entries may cover a diversity of issues, from true crime and biographies through to political analysis, business, war reportage, investigative journalism and foreign correspondence, for example. Authors must be Australian citizens or residents of Australia. Titles can be an edited collection of no more than five authors. It can be on an Australian or international subject matter and/or historical in context.
Entries now open
The 2010 Walkley Book Award is now open for second round entries.
* First round entries close Wednesday 30 June, 2010 at 5pm (For books published between September 1, 2009 and June 30, 2010) CLOSED
* Second round entries close Tuesday August 31, 2010 at 5pm (For books published between July 1, 2010 and August 31, 2010)
More information here.
