ACT Book of the Year Award
Each year the ACT Government offers one ACT Book of the Year Award for excellence in literature, valued at $10,000. The Award recognises quality contemporary Australian literary works including fiction, non-fiction and poetry, by ACT-based authors published in the previous calendar year.
Links to the online grant forms are available here. 
Opening and Closing Dates
The 2012 ACT Book of the Year Award will open on Tuesday 10 April 2012 and close on Monday 21 May 2012.
Eligibility
The ACT Book of the Year Award is open to nominations of books written by an author who resides in the ACT, or by an author who can strongly demonstrate an ACT-based literary practice.
The author may include an editor or translator who, in the opinion of the judges, has made a substantial and creative contribution to the original material from which the book is derived.
The ACT Book of the Year Award does not consider the following: anthologies, military studies, picture books, instruction manuals, university theses, bibliographies, dictionaries, encyclopaedias, professional reference titles, guide books, catalogues, personal growth books, lifestyle or hobby books and educational text books.
More information
You can access more information about the 2012 ACT Book of the Year Award here (PDF 126KB).
For further information on the ACT Book of the Year Award, please contact artsACT on (02) 6207 2384 or email artsACT@act.gov.au
Links
2011 ACT Book of the Year Award winner and short-listed nominations (PDF 178.7 KB)
The River: A Journey Through The Murray-Darling Basin
by Chris Hammer (winner - 2011 ACT Book of the Year Award).
Previous winning nominations to the ACT Book of the Year Award
Share this page: