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10 May

CLUNES BOOKTOWN 2012!

What a Winner!

10 May

SPUNC Announces Inaugural Independent Publishers’ Conference and New Prize for Small Publishers

November 2012 will see a new conference for publishing and a prize awarding an undervalued title…

08 May

LAUNCH! Editors Victoria

The Society of Editors Victoria Inc. has had a facelift and they’re ready to launch their new name, Editors Victoria, along with their new logo and website!

08 May

NEW RELEASE: The Unfinished Revolution: Voices from the Global Fight for Women's Rights

SPINIFEX PRESS are thrilled to announce the release of ‘Unfinished Revolution’, which tells the story of the global struggle to secure basic rights for women and girls.

08 May

Submissions now OPEN! Cordite 39 & Cordite 40!

Submit your poetry and/or poetry reviews to Cordite!

Fifth Calibre Prize seeks outstanding essay entries [25.08.2010]

THE FIFTH CALIBRE PRIZE

FIRST PRIZE: $10,000

CLOSING DATE: 10 DECEMBER

Australian Book Review (ABR) and the Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) seek entries for the fifth Calibre Prize for an Outstanding Essay, the nation’s premier award for an original essay and one of the world’s most lucrative essay competitions.

The Calibre Prize is intended to generate brilliant new essays and to foster new insights into culture, society and the human condition. We welcome essays from leading authors and commentators, but also from emerging writers. All non-fiction subjects are eligible: from life writing to literary studies, history to politics, biography to philosophy, natural history to popular science, travel writing to environmental studies.

PREVIOUS WINNERS
Elisabeth Holdsworth (2007) Rachel Robertson, Mark Tredinnick (2008) Kevin Brophy, Jane Goodall (2009) Lorna Hallahan, David Hansen (2010)

HOW TO ENTER
The guidelines and entry form are attached here. They are also now available on the ABR website: