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Victorian Premier's Literary Awards close this Friday 1 May

Writers and publishers are invited to submit entries to the prestigious Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards.

A total of $195,000 will be awarded to established and emerging writers across eleven categories in one of Australia’s richest and most diverse writing prizes.

The winner of the Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript by an Emerging Victorian Writer will also receive 20 hours of professional assistance from the Victorian Writers’ Centre. This prize is offered for an unpublished fiction manuscript which may be a novel or a collection of stories. An “Emerging Writer” is defined as an author who has not previously had a fiction book published.

Entries close 1 May.

www.slv.vic.gov.au/pla

— 27.04.2009

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