After a few years on the scene the The Australian PM's Literary Awards award are starting to find thier feet and are inviting entries between 10 January and Feb 2 for year number three.
Tragic hopes all the publishers are back from their Christmas holidays in the Bahama's, or more likely Batemans Bay, given the challenges the industry is facing, to ensure that entries are in on time.
The biggest change this year is that shortlisted authors will get a slice of the pie receiving AU$5000 of the $100,000 on offer for each of the four categories and the winner, assuming there isn't a joint award that is, getting the remaining $80,000. For the last couple of years the winner took the lot home with the shortlistees enjoying a brief moment in the sun and a cucumber sandwich at the reception before getting the bus home.
An annual timetable is also being implemented with entries to be opened in January each year, shortlists revealed in May and winners announced the first week of July.
Mentionting timetabling might be considered trite until we recall that last years award went missing in the schedule completely with the winners eventually emerging in November if Tragic recalls correctly! Good to know that the Feds are now fully across the use of calendars in the early part of the 21st century.
Mentionting timetabling might be considered trite until we recall that last years award went missing in the schedule completely with the winners eventually emerging in November if Tragic recalls correctly! Good to know that the Feds are now fully across the use of calendars in the early part of the 21st century.
In 2011, the shortlists will be announced in the week of 23 to 27 May and the Prime Minister will announce the winners in the week of 4 to 8 July.
The same judging panels are back for another turn of duty now it has been established that none of them have anything to do with the Australian Cricket team. They get to read the books and then make their recommendations to the 27th PM , Julia Gillard, who will then make the final decision.
Tragic is not too sure if in the event of controversy or a totally hung parliament whether the Govenor-General gets called in to adjudicate!
Rumours that the judging panel are required to sing an amended version of the club song of the PM's AFL team the Western Bulldogs before each committee meeting are yet to be confirmed.
2010 Prime Minister's Literary Award Winners. Each of the winners receives $100,000 - Fiction Eva Hornung for her novel Dog Boy; Non-fiction is Grace Karskens'The Colony: A History of Early Sydney .
2010 saw the introduction of two new categories the Young adult fiction category won byBill Condon's Confessions of a Liar, Thief and Failed Sex God, and the Children's fiction winner Star Jumps by Lorraine Marwood
For further information on the Awards visit www.arts.gov.au/pmliteraryawards. The guidelines and entry form are available on the website now.
Tragic covers the award over at Literary Awards Australia and and |Literary Awards UK
note:,CanlitAwards covering the Canadian Book Award scene is back on line and updated and rejoins the sisters below
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