‘Overland’ launches ‘Fair Australia Prize’

Overland has launched a new Fair Australia Prize to encourage writers and artists ‘to be part of setting a new agenda for Australia’.

The winner of each category—short fiction, essay, poetry, and graphic or cartoon—will be awarded $5000, and entries are encouraged to engage with issues such as how ‘insecure, casual, precarious work affect a person and their community’, what ‘a fair Australia looks like’, and how we ‘can change Australia together’. Winning entries will be published in a ‘Fair Australia’ supplement in Overland 220, to be launched in Melbourne in August.

The prize is supported and funded by the National Union of Workers.

Entries are open to all Australian writers. To learn more about the prize and to enter, click here.