Awards and Sponsorship

AWARDS AND SPONSORSHIP

The Copyright Agency sponsors Educational Publishing Awards Australia NAVA Visual Artist Fellowship 2018 The Lifted Brow Prize for Experimental the following awards either directly Primary Publisher of the Year PLD Two $20,000 fellowships Non-Fiction 2018 Winner $5,000 or through our Cultural Fund. Secondary Publisher of the Year Oxford University Press Janet Burchill & Jennifer McCamley Eloise Grills, big beautiful female theory Money given to the recipient as a Griffin Award (Australian playwriting) Dr Alex Gawronski Runners up $500 each component of the award is noted. Winner $10,000 Queensland Literary Awards Cassandra Rockwood-Rice, Root Bed Mark Rogers, Superheroes David Unaipon Award For An Unpublished Indigenous Writer 2018 Joint second runner ups Australian Book Industry Awards 2019 Shortlist $1,000 each Kirstie Parker The Making of Ruby Champion Jessie Berry-Porter, To Un Fold A Body Of Small Talks Non-fiction award Olivia Clement, Heart Soul Yoga Studio Beirut Bella Klaver, we need to talk about Antarctica Behrouz Boochani trans. by Omid Tofighian, Shannon Murdoch, Dog & Boy Queensland Poetry Festival Oodgeroo No Friend But The Mountains: Writing From Manus Diane Stubbings, Night Noonuccal Indigenous Poetry Prize 2018 Walkley Mid-Year Awards 2019 Prison (PanMacmillan) Ryan Watson, The Fountain Brenda Saunders, Quondongs $5,000 each Arts Journalism Bragg UNSW Press Prizes for Best Australian John Fries Award 2019 Stanley Awards Science Writing 2018 Jane Howard, How Australian theatre rebalanced Winner $10,000 Book Illustrator Of The Year Award 2018 Dr Andrew Leigh MP, ‘From bloodletting to placebo its gender disparity (ABC) Buddy Ross surgery’, an excerpt from his book Randomistas Justine Youssef Under the table I learnt how to feed you Walkley-Pascall Award For Arts Criticism Highly Commended Stella Prize Longlist Bragg UNSW Student Prize for Science Writing Jeff Sparrow, A Place of Punishment: No Friend 2018 Betty Chimney and Raylene Walatinna Nganampa $1,000 each But the Mountains by Behrouz Boochani Ngura (Our Country) Preethika Mathan, Santa Sabina College (NSW), ‘i-Care’ Vicki Laveau-Harvie (winner), The Erratics (The Sydney Review of Books) Miles Franklin Literary Award (Fourth Estate) Carmel Bird Digital Literary Award Shortlist 2019 Jenny Ackland, Little Gods (Allen & Unwin) (Spineless Wonders) Top: Walkley Foundation Mid-Year Award winners including the ABC's Jane $5,000 each Stephanie Bishop, Man Out of Time Howard (in glasses) who won $5000 from Copyright Agency for the Arts Winner $3000 Journalism award. Photo: Adam Hollingworth. Melissa Lucashenko (winner), Too Much Lip (Hachette Australia) Tanya Vavilova, Grub (The University of Queensland Press) Belinda Castles, Bluebottle (Allen & Unwin) Finalists $1,000 each Michael Mohammed Ahmad, The Lebs Enza Gandolfo, The Bridge (Scribe Publications) Megan McGrath, All Hands (Hachette Australia) Chloe Hooper, The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire James Hughes, Understanding Almost Nothing Gregory Day, A Sand Archive (Picador Australia) (Penguin Random House) of the World Rodney Hall, A Stolen Season (Picador Australia) Gail Jones, The Death of Noah Glass (Text Publishing) Dorothy Hewett Award for an unpublished Gail Jones, The Death of Noah Glass (Text Publishing) Jamie Marina Lau, Pink Mountain on Locust Island manuscript Jennifer Mills, Dyschronia (Picador Australia) (Brow Books) Angela Rockel, Rogue Intensities: a politics Bri Lee, Eggshell Skull (Allen & Unwin) National Indigenous Story Awards of the imagination Melissa Lucashenko, Too Much Lip (UQP) Winners 2018 Daisy Utemorrah Award for an unpublished Maria Tumarkin, Axiomatic (Brow Books) Hannah Donnelly, Before the End of their World manuscript of junior or YA fiction by an Fiona Wright, The World Was Whole Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander writer Alisha Geary, Spirits of the Islands (Giramondo Publishing) Kirli Saunders, Mother Speaks Jo Allen, Spin Cycle