'The NSW Writers' Centre proudly supports Australian authors by offering an annual award for the best work of fiction, non-fiction and children's/young adult self-puyblished by an individual author or by an Australian publishing company which does not have a distribution arrangement for its authors. '
Prizes are offered in fiction, non-fiction and marketing categories.
Source: NSW Writer's Centre website, http://www.nswwriterscentre.org.au
Sighted: 30/04/3008
'When an Australian girl meets a young Italian immigrant in isolated farming country in 1956, mutual attraction quickly deteriorates into misunderstanding, hurt and rejection.
'In an attempt to regain lost love, Ruth deliberately falls pregnant. Antonio reluctantly agrees to marry her, but a clash of cultures and personalities gradually unfolds into something more sinister...' (Publisher's blurb)