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Kevin wins inaugural Eureka Street/Reader's Feast awardThe inaugural Eureka Street/Reader's Feast Awards for Social Justice/Human Rights Writing were presented at the inaugural Crime & Justice Festival on Friday night.Published 25 July, 2008 The inaugural Eureka Street/Reader's Feast Awards for Social Justice/Human Rights Writing were presented at the inaugural Crime & Justice Festival on Friday night. The winner of the $5000 Eureka Street/Reader's Feast Award for Social Justice/Human Rights writing was Tony Kevin for his essay The Day the Boat Sank. The essay takes Australian artist Kate Durham's cycle of SIEV-X (Suspected Illegal Entry vessel ‘unknown') paintings as inspiration and revisits the sinking explored in his book A Certain Maritime Incident (Scribe) and its politicised aftermath. Highly commended were writers Maddy Oliver, Arnold Zable and Irfan Yusuf. The winner of the $1500 Margaret Dooley Award for Young Writers (open to those under 35) was Ruth Limkin, a pastor and freelance journalist, for an article that lays out arguments against euthanasia. Runners up were Jonathan Hill and Cara Munro. http://www.booksellerandpublisher.com.au/articles/2008/07/08953/ This article from Thorpe Bowker's Weekly Book Newsletter and Media Extra is reproduced by kind permission of Thorpe-Bowker, a division of R R Bowker LLC. © Copyright 2008, Thorpe-Bowker More from Book News Archive
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Presented on Friday night in the Festival Club at the Melbourne Writers' Festival, the Ned Kelly Awards honour Australian crime writing.3 September, 2008
Melbourne Writers' Festival attendances up by 40%
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Indigenous Literacy Day takes place around Australia today, with many booksellers and publishers donating a percentage of their day's earnings to the Indigenous Literacy Project.3 September, 2008
Victorian Prem's awards announced
The winners of the 2008 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards were announced at an awards dinner at Melbourne's Federation Square on Monday night.3 September, 2008 
The events and book features at this year's Melbourne Writer's Festival were peppered throughout the media this week.3 September, 2008 |
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