Island Nonfiction Prize
Subcategory of Awards — Australian Awards
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History

This award is offered by Island magazine and is supported by the Copyright Agency's Cultural Fund. 

Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 2024

Judged by: Keely Jobe Erin Riley Daniel Nour
winner Fucking with Chineseness Cherry Zheng , 2024 single work essay
— Appears in: Island , no. 171 2024; (p. 4-10) 'Shaohua couldn't pronounce his own name. 'Shaohuaaa,' he said, like Ron Weasley trying to make feathers fly. It wasn't for lack of trying. He had taken to speaking at a plodding pace in order to be understood. For me, sitting beside him, this was the aural equivalent of a very slow flogging.' (Introduction)

Year: 2023

winner Rain Rain Indigo Bailey , 2023 single work essay
— Appears in: Island Online - 2023 2023; Island , 168 2023; (p. 4)

Year: 2022

winner Selfish Ghosts Heather Taylor Johnson , 2022 single work essay
— Appears in: Island , no. 165 2022; (p. 6-9) Island Online - 2022 2022; 'It's 1978-79 and in an abandoned warehouse in New York City, at a diner slightly out-of-focus, on a crowded subway pistoling through Brooklyn, seen pissing in a toilet in a dilapidated cubicle is Arthur Rimbaud. Rimbaud's in Coney Island and at the Hudson River sex piers. He's shooting up heroin. He is masturbating. He is pointing at Jesus graffitied on a wall. He is holding a gun to his head. Says multi-form visual artist David Wojnarowicz of the more than 200 photographs he took of his friends - and possibly himself - wearing a cut-out photocopied Rimbaud mask, 'I had Rimbaud come through a vague biographic& outline of what my past had been—the places I had hung out in as a kid, the places I starved in or haunted on sonic level.'

Year: 2021

inaugural winner In Quarantine Megan Clement , 2021 single work essay
— Appears in: Island , no. 162 2021; (p. 5-11) Island Online - 2021 2021;
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