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OUSTANDING ESSAY

ENTRIES INVITED FOR THE FIFTH CALIBRE PRIZE - NEW CLOSING DATE 1 JANUARY
2011

'What a wonderful thing is the essay! All honour to Australian Book Review
and the Cultural Fund of Copyright Agency Limited for celebrating it with
the Calibre Prize.' Robert Dessaix

'A distinctively subtle, poised and refined specimen ... a pertinent
intervention in the debates over the role of historical study and
empirically-based truth-seeking in any society.' Victorian Premier's
Literary Awards judges on David Hansen's 'Seeing Truganini', winner of The
Alfred Deakin Prize for an Essay Advancing Public Debate 2010

Australian Book Review (ABR) and the Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) seek
entries for the fifth Calibre Prize for an Outstanding Essay, the nation's
premier award for an original essay and one of the world's most lucrative
essay competitions.

FIRST PRIZE: $10,000

NEW CLOSING DATE: 1 JANUARY 2011

The Calibre Prize is intended to generate brilliant new essays and to foster
new insights into culture, society and the human condition. We welcome
essays from leading authors and commentators, but also from emerging
writers. All non-fiction subjects are eligible: from life writing to
literary studies, history to politics, biography to philosophy, natural
history to popular science, travel writing to environmental studies.

PREVIOUS WINNERS
Lorna Hallahan, David Hansen* (2010)
'Seeing Truganini' - Winner of The Alfred Deakin Prize for an Essay
Advancing Public Debate, 2010 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards Kevin
Brophy, Jane Goodall (2009) Rachel Robertson, Mark Tredinnick (2008)
Elisabeth Holdsworth (2007)

HOW TO ENTER
The guidelines and entry form are attached here. They are also now available
on the ABR website:
http://www.australianbookreview.com.au/competitions/calibre-prize

MEDIA ENQUIRIES
Contact: Peter Rose, Editor
Australian Book Review
(03) 9429 6700
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