UNSW Press Bragg Prize for Science Writing 2024 shortlist announced
The shortlist for this year’s UNSW Press Bragg Prize for Science Writing has been announced.
Shortlisted pieces are:
- ‘Of Moths and Marsupials’ by Kate Evans
- ‘The World’s Oldest Story Is Flaking Away. Can Scientists Protect It?’ by Dyani Lewis
- ‘In the Heart of the Forest, One Woman Built a House of Slime’ by Liam Mannix
- ‘Dog People’ by Amanda Niehaus
- ‘Predicting the Future’ by Drew Rooke
- ‘Heroes of Zero’ by Cameron Stewart.
The winner of this year’s prize will be announced on 6 November. The winner will receive $7000, and two runners-up will each receive $1500. Last year’s winner was Nicky Phillips for the essay ‘Trials of the heart’.
All shortlisted pieces will be published in the forthcoming anthology The Best Australian Science Writing 2024 (ed by Jackson Ryan and Carl Smith, NewSouth, November). The editors said: ‘Our philosophy was to include work that wowed, that awed, the surprised and that transported. We have disappeared into the worlds within these pages, and we hope readers will, too.’
The annual UNSW Press Bragg Prize for Science Writing is open to 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.
More information about the prize is available on the UNSW Press website.
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