![]() ![]() The Awards provide an opportunity to highlight the importance of literacy and to encourage everyone to enjoy and learn from the work of our writers. They are the richest and longest running state-based literary awards in Australia and cover all genres of writing. ![]() The NSW Premier’s Literary Awards are held annually. The NSW Government is committed to increasing public engagement with the arts. It is the entrant’s responsibility to determine which prize is most suitable for their work. Works that blend fiction and non-fiction may be entered in either the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction or the Douglas Stewart Prize for non-fiction but not both. In such cases, no part of the prize money will be paid to the photographer or illustrator. ![]() An award will not be given for a work consisting principally of photographs or illustrations unless the text is of substantial length and of sufficient merit in its own right. Books compiled by an editor and/or consisting of contributions of more than four writers are not eligible for the Douglas Stewart Prize. Oral histories are ineligible unless the author claims artistic responsibility for the majority of the text. The Douglas Stewart Prize ($40,000) is for a prose work other than a work of fiction.īooks including biographies, autobiographies and works of history, philosophy and literary criticism may be nominated provided they display literary qualities. ![]()
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