{"id":37967,"date":"2026-02-21T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/themooraboolnews\/?p=37967"},"modified":"2026-02-18T21:56:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T10:56:41","slug":"carey-award-marks-a-decade-of-honouring-australian-writers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/themooraboolnews\/news\/carey-award-marks-a-decade-of-honouring-australian-writers\/","title":{"rendered":"Carey award marks a decade of honouring Australian writers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ENTRIES are being taken for the annual Peter Carey Short Story Award, which this year celebrates a decade of recognising Australian writers.<\/p>\n<p>Named in honour of Bacchus Marsh-born Carey, the award is for stories of between 2000 and 3000 words and carries prize money of $2000 for the winner and $1000 for the runner-up.<\/p>\n<p>The winning entry will be published in an edition of the Overland Literary Journal and the runner-up at Overland Online.<\/p>\n<p>As well as the major prizes, one entry will receive the Moorabool Shire Libraries&#8217; Best Local Entry award.<\/p>\n<p>Writers who enter the competition and who live, work or study in Moorabool Shire will be eligible to win the $500 prize.<\/p>\n<p>Award submissions will close at 6pm on Thursday 12 March and can be made on the Shire&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n<p>The competition is open to writers aged over 18 from anywhere in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Judging will be &#8216;blind&#8217;, so entries should not carry the author&#8217;s name, and writers can enter as many pieces as they wish.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30038\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30038\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-30038\" src=\"https:\/\/static.timesnewsgroup.com.au\/prod\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2026\/02\/peter-carey-640x574-_95834.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"542\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30038\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peter Carey was born in Bacchus Marsh and has long been regarded as one of Australia\u2019s best authors.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A longlist will be published in May, with the winner to be announced at the Lerderderg Library, Bacchus Marsh on Saturday 13 June.<\/p>\n<p>The longlist judges are established writers Laura Jean McKay, Adam Brannigan, Brooke Dunnell and Gillian Hagenus.<\/p>\n<p>McKay is head judge and wrote The Animals in That Country (2020), which won the prestigious Arthur C Clarke Award, the Victorian Prize for Literature and the ABIA Small Publishers Adult Book of the Year, and was co-winner of the Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (2021).<\/p>\n<p>Brannigan, who placed in the Carey award in 2024, writes across various genres and has had work published in Overland, Meanjin, Meniscus and Australian and international anthologies.<\/p>\n<p>Dunnell, of Perth, has had her short fiction widely published in journals and anthologies, while South Australian Hagenus is a writer, editor and literary festival organiser.<\/p>\n<p>The 2025 winner was Amanda Hildebrandt for The Book of Empirical Observations and Jamie Castellas won best local entry for We Won Tickets to the Waterpark in a Radio Contest.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30038\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30038\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-30038\" src=\"https:\/\/static.timesnewsgroup.com.au\/prod\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2026\/02\/PeterCareySSAWaynean_82723.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"805\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30038\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Local writers Jem Tyley-Miller and Wayne Marshall helped launch the 10th anniversary Peter Carey Short Story Award. Photo: SUPPLIED<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Andrea Pavleka won in 2024 for her entry That Golden Hour.<\/p>\n<p>The award is being run in conjunction with the Moorabool Festival of Stories program, which is spread throughout the year.<\/p>\n<p>The first event will be a writing workshop with Rijn Collins, the author of Fed to Red Birds, and a panel discussion with past Best Local Entry winners at the Ballan Library and Community Hub from 10am to 2pm tomorrow, Saturday 21 February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ENTRIES are being taken for the annual Peter Carey Short Story Award, which this year celebrates a decade of recognising Australian writers. Named in honour of Bacchus Marsh-born Carey, the award is for stories of between 2000 and 3000 words and carries prize money of $2000 for the winner and $1000 for the runner-up. 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