[dbaust] Vision Australia - Literary Award Information
- From: Erika Webb <erikaweb@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Erika Webb <erikaweb@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2011 19:00:00 -0800 (PST)
Vision Australia - Literary Award Information
http://www.visionaustralia.org.au/info.aspx?page=2028
Vision Australia is proud to announce the 2012 Dickinson Literary Award for
Australians writers who are blind or have low vision.
This competition aims to highlight the creativity of the blindness community
and promote their cultural contribution. Importantly, it also enables people
who are vision-impaired to tell their own stories in their own words.
These awards date back to 1921 and we are honoured to keep them alive.
Find out more about the history of this prestigious award.
http://www.visionaustralia.org.au/info.aspx?page=1974
Today, this historic literary competition is open to all Australian writers who
are legally blind. There are seven categories, each of which has first prize of
a Vision Australia Equipment Solutions voucher to the value of $500.
Categories
Adult - 25 years and older
Fiction (no more than 1000 words)
Non-fiction (no more than 1000 words)
Young Adult - 16 to 24 years
Fiction (no more than 1000 words)
Non-fiction (no more than 1000 words)
Youth - those under 16 years
Fiction (no more than 500 words)
Non-fiction (no more than 500 words)
Open - All ages
Best autobiographical piece on living with blindness and low vision (no more
than 1000 words)
Entry criteria
Entries will be judged anonymously - please put your name on a separate cover
sheet, not on the story pages, and number the pages of your entry.
Entries longer than the word limit will not be eligible for judging. Please
allow sufficient time to edit your entry down to the word length required if
necessary and put a word count on your entry.
To enter the Vision Australia Dickinson Literary Award, you must:
be an Australian citizen be legally blind
Submitting your entry
Entries may be submitted in whichever format is suited to the entrant.
Emailed entries do not require a handwritten signature. Just type in your name.
Entries close 5pm Eastern Standard Time, 13 January 2012.
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