‘Currowan’ wins Walkley Book Award

Friday, 18 November 2022 Books+Publishing

Bronwyn Adcock has won the 2022 Walkley Book Award for Currowan: The story of a fire and a community during Australia’s worst summer, published by Black Inc.

Chosen from a shortlist of three, Adcock’s book is a firsthand account of the Currowan fire, which burnt for 74 days and consumed nearly 5000 square kilometres in New South Wales during the Black Summer bushfires.

A journalist and writer, Adcock has worked as a radio current-affairs reporter and documentary maker for the ABC, as a video journalist for SBS’s Dateline and as a freelance writer. Currowan is her first book.

Presented as part of the annual Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism, the Walkley Book Award ‘celebrates Australian writers who take enduring subjects from news, eyewitness accounts, investigations and history’ and whose books ‘bring readers immersive detail, clear analysis and new revelations’.

This is the second year running a Black Inc. title has won the award, with The Winter Road by Kate Holden taking out last year’s prize.

To see the full list of Walkley Award winners, see the Walkleys website.

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