Free to enter, The Stanner Award for Emerging Indigenous Authors, prize: $5,000 (Australia)

Deadline: 31 January 2011

Stanner Award 2011

Emerging Indigenous authors, scholars and academics are invited to enter the 2011 Stanner Award.

The author of the winning submission will receive prize money, and mentoring and editorial support to turn their manuscript into a publication. Previously the Stanner Award was only awarded to already published works.

AIATSIS established the award in 1985 in recognition of the significant contribution of the late Emer. Professor W.E.H. (Bill) Stanner to the establishment and development of the Institute.

Aboriginal Studies Press will publish the winner and have the first option to consider all manuscripts for possible publication.

The award is open to Indigenous Australians over 18 years of age who have written a scholarly manuscript in the area of Australian Indigenous studies, as broadly understood, which does not include fiction and poetry.

The prize

* an inscribed glass statuette
* publication of the manuscript by Aboriginal Studies Press
* $5000 prize money
* mentoring and editorial support (up to 50 hours) to bring the manuscript to a publishable standard
* out-of-pocket expenses.

Timing

Entries for the 2011 Stanner Award open on Monday 1 November 2010 and close at 5.00 pm, Monday 31 January 2011 – with the winner announced during July’s NAIDOC Week 2011.

Eligibility

The Award is open to all Indigenous authors, scholars and academics, however submissions must not have been published previously, or be under consideration by other publishers, or entered in to other awards.

For the purposes of this award, an Indigenous Australian means:

* a person of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent; and
* who identifies as an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander; and
* is accepted as such by the community in which s/he lives or has lived.

Authors’ claims to Indigeneity are to be supported by supplying the name and contact details of two authorised referees.

Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) staff and visiting researchers who meet the above criteria may enter the award. AIATSIS Council and Research Advisory Committee members may not enter the award.

The Conditions of Entry and Entry Form contain the information required to enter. Those entering the award will need to read and abide by the Conditions.

A set of FAQs provides extra information.

Submissions that don’t meet the conditions will be deemed ineligible.

More information here.