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Affirm Press Mentorship Award
Subcategory of Awards — Australian Awards
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History

Inaugurated in 2017.

According to the website:

The Affirm Press Mentorship Award offers up to three writers developing exceptional new work the opportunity to work with the Affirm Press publishing team while in residence at Varuna the National Writers House.

The award is about creating new opportunities for Australian writers of literary fiction and non-fiction and forging new professional relationships between these writers and Affirm Press.

Source: Varuna (http://www.varuna.com.au/varuna/index.php/programs/residential-programs/pathways-publication/item/342-the-affirm-press-mentorship-award). (Sighted: 08/08/2017)

Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 2021

winner Maha Sidaoui for 'One Arabian Girl'.
winner Alison Whipp for 'Love on the Zigzag'.
winner Annika Herb for 'The Pieces of You'.

Year: 2017

joint winner Kathryn O’Connor

For the manuscript 'Inheritance'.
joint winner Edita Mujkic

For the manuscript 'From Here to There', a memoir of the war in Bosnia.
joint winner Kerry Littrich

For the manuscript 'The Grand Pacific'.

Year: 2015

winner Tobias McCorkell

For an extract from his novel 'Barely Anything' (part of his doctoral dissertation).
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