Scribe announces fiction prize winner
Scribe Publications announced the winner of the CAL Scribe Fiction Prize on 9 January. Copyright Agency congratulates the 2012 winner, Amy Espeseth for her work Trouble Telling the Weather.
Supported by Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund, the prize is awarded for an unpublished manuscript by an Australian writer aged 35 and over, regardless of publication history. Amy receives $15,000 in prize money and a book contract from Scribe Publications.
The 2012 prize was judged by Blanche Clark, Books Editor at the Herald Sun, Jon Page, CEO of Pages & Pages Bookstore and President of the ABA; and Aviva Tuffield, Associate Publisher at Scribe Publications.
In commenting on Trouble Telling the Weather, Blanche Clark said: ‘An assured tone and vivid descriptions bring to lie the bleakness and beauty of Siren, Wisconsin, the setting for a poignant tale that compassionately, but unflinchingly, traverses the lives of five characters struggling with racial, economic and social disparity.’
Item posted on 9 January 2012.