AustLit
History
Established in 2020, the award is for a UQP book that celebrates women’s lives and/or promotes gender equality.
Latest Winners / Recipients
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Year: 2021
winner y
The First Time I Thought I Was Dying
St Lucia
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University of Queensland Press
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2021
21280048
2021
selected work
essay
'We live in a world that expects us to be constantly in control of ourselves. Our bodies and minds, though, have other ideas.
'In this striking debut, artist and writer Sarah Walker wrestles with the awkward spaces where anatomy meets society: body image and Photoshop, phobias and religion, sex scenes and onstage violence, death and grief. Her luminous writing is at once specific and universal as she mines the limits of anxiety, intimacy and control.
'Sharp-witted and poignant, this collection of essays explores our unruly bodies and asks how we might learn to embrace our own chaos.'
Source : publisher's blurb
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Year: 2020
inaugural winner y
Throat
St Lucia
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University of Queensland Press
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2020
18673599
2020
selected work
poetry
'Throat is the explosive second poetry collection from award-winning Mununjali Yugambeh writer Ellen van Neerven. Exploring love, language and land, van Neerven flexes their distinctive muscles and shines alight on Australia’s unreconciled past and precarious present with humour and heart. Van Neerven is unsparing in the interrogation of colonial impulse, and fiercely loyal to telling the stories that make us who we are.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
