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Prime Minister's Literary Awards open for entries, plus Paris 2024 Olympics artwork revealed, finalists of inaugural play competition for seniors, and more!
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Prime Minister’s Literary Awards 2024

Entries are open now for the richest literary prize in the nation, in six categories: fiction, non-fiction, young adult literature, children’s literature, poetry and Australian history. Books published in the previous calendar year are accepted and the prize boasts a tax-free prize pool of $600,000. Works may be entered by publishers, literary agents, authors or, in the case of the Australian History category only, producers or broadcasters.
Applications close 19 March; learn more and apply.

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Celina Lei is an arts writer and editor at ArtsHub. She acquired her M.A in Art, Law and Business in New York with a B.A. in Art History and Philosophy from the University of Melbourne. She has previously worked across global art hubs in Beijing, Hong Kong and New York in both the commercial art sector and art criticism. She took part in drafting NAVA’s revised Code of Practice - Art Fairs and was the project manager of ArtsHub’s diverse writers initiative, Amplify Collective. Celina is based in Naarm/Melbourne.