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Fremantle Press and the Fogarty Foundation launched the award for an unpublished manuscript for young writers in Western Australia in 2019.
This biennial award is worth $20,000 and a publishing contract with Fremantle Press and is judged by Fremantle Press publishers
Latest Winners / Recipients
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Year: 2021
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Year: 2019
inaugural winner y The History of Mischief Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 2020 18882058 2020 single work novel'‘There is madness in it.’
'‘Yes. But magic too.’
'Following the death of their parents, Jessie and her older sister Kay move to their grandmother’s abandoned house. One night they discover The History of Mischief hidden beneath the floor: it is like no book they have ever seen.
'From Ancient Greece to war-torn China, from the Ethiopian Empire to Victorian England, the pages reveal a world of mischief and mystery, adventure and adversity – stolen bones and fiery dragons, feisty philosophers and tempestuous tyrants, shape-shifting trees and scorched scrolls.
'But not everything is as it seems, in the book or in her life, and Jessie is determined to find the truth. The History has a history of its own. Unravelling its secrets might be the biggest mischief of all. (Publication summary)'
Works About this Award
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$20k Unpublished Manuscript Award Launched for WA Young Writers 2018 single work column
— Appears in: Books + Publishing News , December 2018;'Fremantle Press is partnering with social-purpose organisation the Fogarty Foundation to launch an unpublished manuscript award for young writers in Western Australia, worth $20,000.' (Introduction)