Life Writing Award for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Writers
Subcategory of Lord Mayor’s Creative Writing Awards
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Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 2022

winner Bebe Backhouse for 'If This Is the End: Stories of Perpetual Echoes in a Corridor'.

Year: 2020

winner Declan Fry for 'The Song Exists in Your Heart: Walking Wurundjeri Country'.

Year: 2017

winner Monique Grbec for the Secret Darkness

Works About this Award

Writer 'Blown Away' by Her Work's Success Keira Jenkins , 2018 single work column
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 24 January no. 668 2018; (p. 26)

'Monique Grbec has been named inaugural winner of the Life Writing Award in the Melbourne Lord Mayor's Writing Awards.'

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