Judges Report – Fogarty Literary Award 2019
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Fogarty Literary Award winner says her manuscript was 12 years in the making and completed just before giving birth to her first child
Como resident Rebecca Higgie won the inaugural Fogarty Literary Award for her manuscript The History of Mischief at a special ceremony at the ECU Spiegeltent on Wednesday 22 May 2019. Chosen from a field of 64 manuscripts by Western Australian writers aged 18 to 35, Higgie won a $20,000 cash prize from the Fogarty Foundation and secured a publishing contract with Fremantle Press.
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The Fogarty Literary Award shortlist has been announced with three young Western Australian authors making it to the next round
Michael Burrows, Rebecca Higgie and Emma Young are still in the running for one of Australia’s newest and richest literary awards for young writers.
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2019 Fogarty Literary Award shortlist: Michael Burrows
Michael Burrows is an author and poet from Perth. Here, he reads from his first novel, Where the Line Breaks, and talks about how it was inspired by an Anzac Day experience in Gallipoli, the search for Australian war poetry and his love for Western Australia.
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2019 Fogarty Literary Award shortlist: writer Emma Young talks bookshop crazies and library delivery services
With the 2019 Fogarty Literary Award announcement looming, we thought it’d be a good idea to bring in one of our shortlisted authors, Emma Young, for a chat about her manuscript The Last Bookshop.
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2019 Fogarty Literary Award shortlist: writer Rebecca Higgie talks books, magic and play
The shortlist has been announced for the 2019 Fogarty Literary Award and Western Australian author Rebecca Higgie is on the list. In this podcast she chats to Marketing and Communications Manager Claire Miller about her manuscript The History of Mischief and what it took to create the story.
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2019 Fogarty Literary Award longlist: Will Jacobs
Will Jacobs is a writer, engineer and Sydney Swans supporter from Perth. Here he talks about how his manuscript, Jeffrey, first started life as a song, and the important lessons he’s learned from storytelling.
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2019 Fogarty Literary Award longlist: author Mel Hall on how whole foods and swimming inspired a whole manuscript
The only Freo resident to make the Fogarty Literary Award, Mel Hall, came in to talk to Marketing and Communications Manager Claire Miller about her manuscript The Shapes.
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2019 Fogarty Literary Award longlist: YA novelist Nanci Nott talks philosophy, experimentation and more
Young adult novelist Nanci Nott talks to Marketing and Communications Manager Claire Miller about being longlisted for the 2019 Fogarty Literary Award.
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2019 Fogarty Literary Award longlist: Joshua Kemp
Joshua Kemp is longlisted for the Fogarty Literary Award for his novel In the Shadow of Burringurrah, an Australian gothic story. Here, he talks about what inspired him to write it, male and female relationships, and why novel writing is his true love.
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