Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing 2023 shortlist announced

The shortlist for this year’s Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing has been announced.

The shortlisted pieces are:

• ‘Buried treasure’ by Jo Chandler
• ‘Point of view’ by Lauren Fuge
• ‘Noiseless messengers’ by Rebecca Giggs
• ‘Model or monster’ by Amalyah Hart
• ‘Trials of the heart’ by Nicky Phillips
• ‘A city of islands’ by Helen Sullivan.

The winner of this year’s prize will be announced on 9 November. The winner will receive $7000 and the two runners-up will each receive $1500. The shortlisted pieces will be published in the forthcoming anthology The Best Australian Science Writing 2023 (ed by Donna Lu, NewSouth, November).

The Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing is for short nonfiction pieces of science writing that have been written for a general audience. It is named in honour of Australia’s first Nobel laureates, William Henry Bragg and his son William Lawrence Bragg.

For more information about the prize, visit the UNSW Press website.

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