Submissions are now open for Moorabool’s tenth annual Peter Carey short story award.
Moorabool Libraries and local writers Jem Tyler-Miller and Wayne Marshall will be celebrating the award for its tenth year, which has honoured Bacchus Marsh’s own Peter Carey as Australia’s greatest living writer for a decade.
Born and raised in the Bacchus Marsh community, Carey is the author of fourteen critically acclaimed novels and four works of non-fiction, winning the Miles Franklin three times and the Man Booker twice.
This year’s longlisted entries will be judged by critically-acclaimed writer Laura Jean McKay, author of The Animals in That Country and winner of the prestigious Arthur C Clarke Award, the Victorian Prize for Literature, the ABIA Small Publishers Adult Book of the Year and co-winner of the Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Novel in 2021.
Longlisted judging will be made alongside accomplished authors and writers Adam Brannigan, Brooke Dunnell, and Gillian Hagenus,
The award is for short stories between 2000-3000 words, and is open to all Australian residents aged over 18, with cash prizes and publication in Overland Literary Journal are up for grabs.
In order to be eligible for the Best Local Entry Award, entrants must live, work or study in the Moorabool Shire, with an entry fee of $15, and simultaneous submissions welcomed.
For information, visit: https://tinyurl.com/5n6uknv3.
To make a submission, visit: https://tinyurl.com/mukfshxy.
