Wildcare Tasmania Nature Writing Prize
Subcategory of Awards — Australian Awards
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History

The Wildcare Tasmania Nature Writing Prize 2003 was a major competition that offered the winner $4500 as first prize and a wilderness residency in Tasmania.

The competition - for fiction and non-fiction - was sponsored by Wildcare Inc and Hobart City Council. 

(Sunday Tasmanian 22 December 2002)

Notes

  • The Wildcare Tasmania Nature Writing Prize is awarded biennially and was first announced in March 2003. The prize is jointly administered by Tasmania's Parks & Wildlife Service and Island, and sponsored by Wildcare Tasmania.

Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 2007

winner Polyp Dael Allison , 2007 single work prose
— Appears in: Island , Winter no. 109 2007; (p. 8-17)

Year: 2005

winner Days of Christmas Mark Tredinnick , 2005 single work prose
— Appears in: Island , Spring no. 102 2005; (p. 46-58) The Best Australian Essays 2005 2005; (p. 162-176)

Year: 2003

winner Strictly for the Birds Nicholas Drayson , 2003 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Island , Winter-Spring no. 93-94 2003; (p. 56-66)
VIEW ALL LISTED RECIPIENTS (13)

Works About this Award

Words That Paint Pictures Peter Grant , 2009 single work essay
— Appears in: Island , Spring no. 118 2009; (p. 8-10)
VIEW ALL WORKS ABOUT (1)
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