- Theme: Australian Life in all its diversity
- Length: Not more than 5,000 words
- Reward: Prize Money: 1st Prize – $15,000, 2nd Prize – $3,000, 3rd Prize – $2,000
LaTrobe University Shepparton Residency, Publication of selected works in annual publication - Competition commences: February 1st 2023
- Closing date for entries: April 30th 2023
Everyone can write at least one good story. That was the belief of J. F. Archibald, the editor and founder of the famous nineteenth-century weekly, The Bulletin, who invited his readers to become contributors. It was this encouragement that led Joseph Furphy, working in his brother’s foundry at Shepparton, to write his ‘offensively Australian’ novel, Such is Life, using the pseudonym of ‘Tom Collins’. The book, full of stories derived from Joseph’s experience in the Riverina and told in a voice uniquely his own, is now acknowledged to be a classic of Australian literature
In the spirit of Archibald and honouring the author of Such is Life, the Furphy Literary Award has been established to promote and extend the tradition of story telling, both factual and fictional, that is so much part of Australian life.
There will be an annual award for a prose work, which may be fiction or non-fiction, by a writer aged 18 years or more at the date of closing of entries.
To enquire about the Furphy Literary Award email [email protected]
For more information and to enter, visit the Furphy website here.