The Sydney Mail One Hundred Pound Prize
Subcategory of Awards — Australian Awards
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History

Offered by the Sydney Mail in February 1904,  the One Hundred Pound Prize was for the best story by a resident in the Commonwealth. There were no restrictions as to subject or length. Copyright reverted to the writer after publication in the newspaper. (http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article164904846)

 

Notes

  • Offerred in 1904 for 'the best original tale by an author resident in the Commonwealth'. There were no restrictions on subject or length and the winning story was to be serialised in the Mail. Entries were sunbmitted anonymously. The Mail received 261 entries and a shortlist of 12 arrived at.

Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 1904

winner Children of the State John Primrose , 1905 single work novel
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Works About this Award

The Mail's £100 Prize 1904 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser , 19 October vol. 78 no. 2241 1904; (p. 966)
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