The Age Short Story Award

"The Age" Short Story Award is a competition that is run in conjunction with PEN, the international writers' association. It was established in 1979. From 1979 to 1984 it was run in conjunction with "Tabloid Story" [Edmunds (2004) "Tabloid Story" received a subsidy from the Australia Council and was distributed as an adjunct to newspapers and magazines such as the Bulletin, "The National Times", and local and student publications. It popularised the contemporary short story for a brief period.] and was known as "The Age"-"Tabloid Story" Awards. [AusLit Thesaurus] The inaugural award was won by Harris Smart. [Harris Smart webpage]

Entries must be unpublished, and under 3000 words. [The Age Short Story Competition Announcement 2004] Three prizes are awarded and the winning stories are published in "The Age" and online.

Note: There is often confusion in reporting the awards as the award is sometimes announced around December and sometimes around January. Consequently, some sources give the year as the year the competition closed, and some as the year the award was announced. This may account for any apparent discrepancies in the list given below. There is no official listing from "The Age" to clarify the situation.

Winners

Footnotes

References

* [http://www.theage.com.au/images/sstory/shortstory.html The Age Short Story Competition Announcement 2004]
* [http://www.austlit.edu.au/run?ex=ShowThes&tid=v)y AusLit Thesaurus "The Age Short Story"]
* [http://www.griffith.edu.au/school/art/text/april04/edmonds.htm Edmunds, Philip (April 2004) "Respectable or Risqué: Creative Writing Programs in the Marketplace" in "Text" Vol. 8 No. 1] Accessed: 2007-07-22
* [http://www.actnaturally.net/resume.html Harris Smart webpage]
* [http://www.theage.com.au/news/Books/All-Fathers-the-Father/2005/01/05/1104832174377.html Steger, Jason (2005) "All fathers the father" in "The Age" 2005-01-08 (Includes full text of story)]
*Steger, Jason (2007) "Short story of love, loss and life in space" in "The Age", 2007-12-08, p. 13
* [http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/12/13/1039656219769.html Steger, Jason (2002) "Writer's winning streak" in "The Age" 2002-12-14]
* [http://home.vicnet.net.au/~ozlit/agestory.html OzLit Page]
* [http://www.jewishaustralia.com/sergeliberman.htm Serge Liberman]
* [http://www.rmit.edu.au/browse/News%20and%20Events%2FNews%2Fby%20date%2FJan%2F;ID=av6mwz1h4syc1;STATUS=A Writers Come of Age]