The Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature, from 2024 the South Australian Literary Awards, comprise a group of biennially-granted literary awards established in 1986 by the Government of South Australia, announced during Adelaide Writers' Week, as part of the Adelaide Festival. The awards include national as well as state-based prizes, and offer three fellowships for South Australian writers. Several categories have been added to the original four.

History

The Awards were created by the South Australian government in 1986. They are administered by the State Library of South Australia and awarded during Writers' Week as part of the Adelaide Festival.[1]

From 2024, the awards are renamed the South Australian Literary Awards.[2]

Description

The Premier's Award is the richest prize, worth A$25,000 (equivalent to $27,644 in 2022), and awarded for the best overall published work which has already won an award in one of the other categories.[3] Other national awards, worth A$15,000 (equivalent to $16,853 in 2022) each as of 2018, are the Fiction Award, Children's Literature Award, Young Adult Fiction Award, John Bray Poetry Award, and the Non-Fiction Award. South Australian awards and fellowships are the Jill Blewett Playwright's Award, the Arts South Australia/Wakefield Press Unpublished Manuscript Award, the Barbara Hanrahan Fellowship, the Max Fatchen Fellowship and the Tangkanungku Pintyanthi Fellowship.[1]

National awards

Premier's Award

Winners:[1]

Fiction Award

Winners:[1]

Children's Literature Award

Winners:[1]

Young Adult Fiction Award

(Offered 2012– ) Winners:[1]

John Bray Poetry Award

Honours John Jefferson Bray (1912–1995), Chief Justice of South Australia, academic and poet for his distinguished services to Australian poetry.[9] Winners:[1]

Non-Fiction Award

Winners:[1]

South Australian awards & fellowships

Jill Blewett Playwright's Award

(Offered 1992− ) Winners:[1]

  • 1992 Bran Nue Dae by Jimmy Chi (Kuckles and Bran Nue Dae Productions)
  • 1994 Sweetown by Melissa Reeves (Red Shed)
  • 1996 Because You Are Mine by Daniel Keene (Red Shed)
  • 1998 Wolf Lullaby by Hilary Bell (Griffin Theatre Company)
  • 2000 Who's Afraid of the Working Class? by Andrew Bovell, Patricia Cornelius, Melissa Reeves & Christos Tsiolkas (Melbourne Workers Theatre)
  • 2002 Small Faith by Josh Tyler
  • 2004 Beautiful Words: A Trilogy by Sean Riley
  • 2006 This Uncharted Hour by Finegan Kruckemeyer
  • 2008 Merger – art, life and the other thing by Duncan Graham
  • 2010 This Place by Nina Pearce
  • 2012 A Cathedral by Nicki Bloom
  • 2014 Replay by Philip Kavanagh
  • 2016 Cut by Duncan Graham AND Blessed by Fleur Kilpatrick (joint winners)
  • 2018 19 weeks by Emily Steel
  • 2020 Forgiveness by Piri Eddy[4][5]
  • 2022 Calendar Days by Peter Beaglehole[6]

Arts SA/Wakefield Press Unpublished Manuscript Award

(Offered 1998– )[1]

  • 1998 Counting The Rivers by Pearlie McNeil
  • 2000 (No winner)
  • 2002 The Black Dream by Corrie Hosking
  • 2004 Goddamn Bus of Happiness by Stefan Laszczuk
  • 2006 The Quakers by Rachel Hennessy
  • 2008 The Second Fouling Mark by Stephen Orr
  • 2010 End of the Night Girl by Amy T Matthews
  • 2012 The First Week by Margaret Merrilees
  • 2014 Here Where We Live by Cassie Flanagan-Willanski
  • 2016 Mallee Boys by Charlie Archbold
  • 2018 A New Name for the Colour Blue by Annette Marner
  • 2020 In the Room with the She Wolf by Jelena Dinic[4][5]
  • 2022 The Comforting Weight of Water by Roanna McClelland[6]

Barbara Hanrahan Fellowship

(Offered 1994– ) Winners:[1]

Max Fatchen (formerly Carclew) Fellowship

(Carclew Fellowship 1988–2012;[10] renamed Max Fatchen Fellowship from 2014, in honour of children's writer Max Fatchen, who died in 2012.[11][3]) Winners:[1]

  • 1988 Geoff Goodfellow
  • 1990 Anne-Marie Mykyta
  • 1992 Anne Brookman
  • 1994 Peter McFarlane
  • 1996 Chris Tugwell
  • 1998 Phil Cummings
  • 2000 Ian Bone
  • 2002 Ruth Starke
  • 2004 Marguerite Hann-Syme
  • 2006 Christine Harris
  • 2008 Rosanne Hawke
  • 2010 Nicole Plüss
  • 2012 Janeen Brian[12]
  • 2014 Helen Dinmore (writing as Catherine Norton[11])
  • 2016 Marianne Musgrove
  • 2018 Danielle Clode
  • 2020 Sally Heinrich[4][5]
  • 2022 Poppy Nwosu[6]

Tangkanungku Pintyanthi Fellowship

(Offered 2014– ; full name Tangkanungku Pintyanthi Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Fellowship) Winners:[1]

  • 2014 Ali Cobby Eckermann for Hopes Crossing
  • 2016 Ali Cobby Eckermann for Too Afraid to Cry
  • 2018 Edoardo Crismani
  • 2022 Karen Wyld[6]

Historic awards

Innovation award

(Offered 2004–2010)
Winners:[1]

The Mayne Award for Multimedia

Formerly the Faulding Award for Multimedia (offered 1998 to 2004).
Winners:[1]

  • 1998 FlightPaths: Writing Journeys by Julie Clarke, Rob Finlayson, Tom Gibson, Denise Higgins, Bernie Jannsen, Nazid Kimmie and Adrian Marshall
  • 2000 Carrier by Melinda Rackham (www.subtle.net/carrier)
  • 2002 Poems in a Flash @ The Stalking Tongue website Jayne Fenton Keane and David Keane (www.poetinresidence.com)
  • 2004 Concatenation by Geniwate

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 "Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature". State Library of South Australia. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
  2. ↑ "2024 South Australian Literary Awards". State Library of South Australia. Retrieved 6 November 2023.
  3. 1 2 "Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature: 2020 Guidelines" (PDF).
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature winners announced". Books+Publishing. 2 March 2020. Archived from the original on 9 April 2020. Retrieved 5 March 2020.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature". State Library of South Australia. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 "Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature showcase excellence". ArtsHub Australia. 5 March 2022. Retrieved 8 March 2022.
  7. ↑ "Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature 2016 winners announced". Books and Publishing. 29 February 2016. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
  8. ↑ "Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature winners announced". Books+Publishing. 8 March 2022. Retrieved 20 March 2022.
  9. ↑ Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature: John Bray poetry award (archived page)
  10. ↑ Not to be confused with fellowships now awarded by Carclew"Fellowships". Carclew. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
  11. 1 2 Arts South Australia. "2018 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature". Issuu. p. 32. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
  12. ↑ "2012 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature". Adelaide Festival Archives. Writers Week. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
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