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David Harold Tribe Fiction Award
or David Harold Tribe Fiction Prize
Subcategory of Awards Australian Awards
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History

The David Harold Tribe Fiction Award encourages fiction writing and promotes interest in Australian fiction generally. It is open to writers nationwide.

The Prize is presented for an original unpublished work of fiction, made possible by a gift to The University of Sydney by David Tribe to promote Australian fiction. 

The prize is work $12,000, and offered every five years. The next award will be in 2024.

Notes

  • The David Harold Tribe Fiction Award is a prize for short fiction administered by the Department of English, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales. The prize was awarded for the first time in 2009.

Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 2019

joint winner Claire Aman for 'If There Are Zebra Finches'.
joint winner Katherine Brabon for 'The Pool'.

Year: 2014

winner Picasso : A Shorter Life John Scott , 2014 single work short story
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 74 no. 3 2014; (p. 183-186) The Best Australian Stories 2015 2015; (p. 21-32)

Year: 2009

inaugural winner Theobald, Tailor Patrick Mountford , 2010 single work short story
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 70 no. 1 2010; (p. 91-97)

Works About this Award

Undercover Susan Wyndham , 2009 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 27-28 November 2009; (p. 26)
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