'Sponsored by Trinity College at the University of Melbourne and supporters, this prize recognises the wonderful talent of so many young Indigenous writers across the nation, and offers an opportunity for the best of our writers to be encouraged, published and acclaimed.
The annual prize is $5000 and is open to Indigenous writers under 30 years of age.' (Source: Overland Online website)
'This year, the Nakata Brophy competition focused on the short story. Notes from the judges – author Tara June Winch, Trinity College’s Katherine Firth, and Overland fiction editor Jennifer Mills – are below, followed by the entry that placed first in this year’s competition, Evelyn Araluen’s ‘Muyum: a transgression’.' (Introduction)
