T A G Hungerford Award 2018 shortlist announced
The shortlist for the 2018 City of Fremantle T A G Hungerford Award has been announced.
The shortlisted manuscripts are:
- ‘Father of the Lost Boys’ (Yuot Alaak)
- ‘She Came to Stay’ (Zoe Deleuil)
- ‘Floaters’ (Alan Fyfe)
- ‘Invisible Boys’ (Holden Sheppard)
- ‘Chewing Porridge: Fixing Up and Breaking Down in Ethiopia’ (Julie Sprigg)
- ‘The Seventh Sister’ (Trish Versteegen).
Fremantle Press publisher and prize judge Georgia Richter said: ‘The entries were diverse, and of a very high standard, and I am certainly contemplating that more than one shortlisted manuscript will be considered for publication.’
The shortlisted titles were chosen from an pool of 63 manuscripts. Richter said that this year’s competition attracted the most entries she had seen in her 10 years on the judging panel.
Awarded for a work of unpublished fiction or narrative nonfiction by a Western Australian author, the winner receives $12,000 in prize money from the City of Fremantle and a publishing contract with Fremantle Press.
As previously reported by Books+Publishing, the City of Fremantle extended its support of the award and announced that the prize money will increase to $15,000 in 2020.
The winner will be announced on 15 November at Fremantle Arts Centre as part of the Fremantle Press Great Big Book Reads series of events. For more information about the award, click here.
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