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ACT Writing and Publishing Awards
or Australian Capital Territory Writing and Publishing Awards
Subcategory of Awards Australian Awards
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History

The aim of the ACT Publishing Awards is to recognise, reward and promote writing by ACT region authors that has either been self-published or published by small publishers. The Awards are administered by the ACT Writers Centre, in recognition of the excellent writing published locally.

There are four categories:

— fiction

— non–fiction

— poetry

— children's books

The awards will be judged on the excellence of the writing/content of the titles entered in each category.

Source: http://www.actwriters.org.au/awards/ Sighted: 10/12/2013.

Latest Winners / Recipients (also see subcategories)8199739

Year: 2013

winner (Poetry) y separately published work icon First... Then... : Poems from Planet Autism Melinda Smith , Port Adelaide : Ginninderra Press , 2012 Z1855063 2012 selected work poetry

'First...Then... is a short collection of 24 poems, mostly dramatic monlogues in various voices. The poems focus on the experience of living with autism, but you do not need to know or be an autistic person to enjoy this book. The poems are by turns moving, harrowing and laugh-out-loud funny, and provide a unique window into a much misunderstood facet of the human experience.'

Source: CircleQuirk website, http://circlequirk.wordpress.com/

Sighted: 14/10/2016

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