• Source: The Australian/Vogel Literary Award

The Australian/Vogel Literary Award was an Australian literary award for unpublished manuscripts by writers under the age of 35. The prize money AUD$20,000, was the richest and most prestigious award for an unpublished manuscript in Australia. Allen & Unwin guaranteed to publish the winning work.




History


The award had been initiated in 1979 by Niels Stevns and was a collaboration between The Australian newspaper, the publisher Allen & Unwin, and Stevns & Company Pty Ltd. Stevns, founder of the company which made Vogel bread, named the award in honour of Swiss naturopath Alfred Vogel.
The Vogel was not awarded in 1985, 2013, and 2019.
The last award was presented in June 2024.




The Australian Fiction Prize


The Vogel Prize was replaced by The Australian Fiction Prize by The Australian newspaper in partnership with publisher HarperCollins. The new prize is for an unpublished manuscript–excluding science fiction, young adult, poetry, plays, works for children–of between 75,000 and 100,000 words, and the prize continues at $20,000, plus a $15,000 advance from the publisher, HarperCollins, who will publish the work; there is now no age limit on the entrant, but the entrant must an Australian resident. Submissions in the prize's first year opened on 6 May 2024 and closed on 2 August 2024. The judges are Caroline Overington, literary editor of The Australian; book critic and literary agent Samuel Bernard; and bookseller Letitia Davy of Gleebooks.




Vogel winners






References






External links


"The History of The Australian/Vogel Literary Award", Allen & Unwin
"The Australian Fiction Prize", HarperCollins

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