Calibre Prize For An Outstanding Essay
The Calibre Prize is an annual Australian Book Review initiative intended to generate brilliant new essays and to foster new insights into culture, society, and the human condition. The Prize, first awarded in 2007, is sponsored by Copyright Agency Limited and offers an annual prize pool of A$10,000.
Entrants to the Calibre Prize include leading Australian authors and commentators, and also emerging writers. All non-fiction subjects are eligible, from life writing to literary studies, history to politics, biography to philosophy, natural history to popular science, travel writing to environmental studies.
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