ASAL award winners announced

The Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) has announced winners of awards, including the ALS Gold Medal.

Winners in each category are:

ALS Gold Medal
(outstanding literary work)

• Elegy, Southwest (Madeleine Watts, Ultimo Press)

Mary Gilmore Award
(best first book of poetry)

• Gravity and Gravel (Liv Moriarty, No More Poetry)

Magarey Medal
(biography)

• Elizabeth Harrower: The Woman in the Watch Tower (Susan Wyndham, NewSouth)

AD Hope Prize
(best paper delivered by a postgraduate student)

• Stacey Roberts for “The Moon over Moller Street: Poetic ‘Leavening’ of Social Realism in Dorothy Hewett’s Bobbin Up”.

More information about the awards is available on the ASAL website.

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