HarperCollins Fiction Prize
Subcategory of Awards Australian Awards
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History

Offered by HarperCollins publishers, the conditions for entry included : no entrant age limit, the writer must not have had a novel published before, and the winning work is published at the time of the announcement.  

Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 2000

winner y separately published work icon Striking It Poor Tom Quinn , Pymble : HarperCollins Australia , 2000 Z668636 2000 single work novel

Year: 1997

winner y separately published work icon Past Secrets M. A. Innes , Pymble : HarperCollins Australia , 1997 Z181017 1997 single work novel

Year: 1996

winner y separately published work icon Revelations of a Spanish Infanta Sallie Muirden , North Ryde : HarperCollins Australia , 1996 Z98457 1996 single work novel historical fiction

Year: 1995

winner First fiction. y separately published work icon Drift Street Clare Mendes , Pymble : HarperCollins Australia , 1995 Z69902 1995 single work novel

Works About this Award

Prize Was Just a Cynical Exercise Gwen Robinson , 1998 single work correspondence
— Appears in: Australian Author , April-July vol. 30 no. 1 1998; (p. 6)
'Surprised' Novelist Win [dollar] 10,000 Prize Robert Hefner , 1997 single work column
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 27 August 1997; (p. 4)
Local Authors Win Praise for Outstanding Fiction Louise Nunn , 1997 single work column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 17 June 1997; (p. 26)
Keneally Recalls His First Time D. D. McNicoll , 1997 single work column biography
— Appears in: The Australian , 28 August 1997; (p. 5)
1996 Harper Collins Fiction Prize: Sallie Muirden Thornton McCamish , 1996 single work biography
— Appears in: The Big Issue , 23 September-6 October no. 7 1996; (p. 35)
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