New Literary Award - Finch Memoir Prize

Sydney publisher Finch Publishing is pleased to announce a new literary award for Australian writers. The Finch Memoir Prize will be awarded to an unpublished nonfiction manuscript in the form of a memoir. The winning author will receive prize money of $10,000 and publication of their book on the Finch list. An impressive trio of judges will select the winner: Jacqueline Kent (former journalist and book editor and now prize-winning author); Malcolm Knox (award-winning journalist, novelist and former Literary Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald) and Angelo Loukakis (prize-winning author, editor, scriptwriter and former publisher). Entries are now open and an entry form can be downloaded from the Finch Publishing website www.finch.com.au The winner of the Finch Memoir Prize will be announced in April 2010.