History
Notes
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The Ian Reed Foundation Prize for Radio Drama is awarded to young writers, aged 15 to 25.
'The Ian Reed Foundation was established through a trust created by Ian Reed, a prominent radio writer in the 1970s, to encourage aspiring Australian radio drama writers. The Foundation has encouraged writers in practical ways since 1983. Assistance has been in the form of grants, fellowships, various playwriting competitions with cash prizes, seminars conducted by writers and producers and cash bonuses for new writers who deserve encouragement.'
(Source: LOUD website, http://www.loud.net.au/arenas/infopages/radiodrama.htm)
Latest Winners / Recipients
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Year: 1998
Microplay form Watermark 1998 single work drama radio play'A mother asks her daughter, "Do you remember your father being a sad man?" This question releases recollections of childhood, of the loves and tensions in the triangular relationship of child and parents. 'Watermark' explores - through differing prisms of memory - a moment of disintegration in this relationship. The judges of the Ian Reed Competition for young playwrights called this prize-winning work 'compelling and poignant - powerfully suggestive and knife-sharp.' Suneeta Peres da Costa paints a remarkable and compassionate audio picture of a pivotal event in three people's lives.'
Source: ABC website, www.abc.net.au (Sighted: 30/05/2007)
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Year: 1995
winner form y
Rita's Lullaby
Sydney
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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1998
Z860575
1998
single work
radio play
Summary: Portrait of two Manila street kids, Rita and Jay. Jay survives by picking pockets while Rita works as a child prostitute. Images of her tourist clients never seem to leave her, nor do the memories of her village life shattered forever by military evacuation. The two meet in the city park at night where they fantasise about the food they might eat and try to bury the past. (From Libraries Australia.)
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Year: 1993
Haya Husseini The Lights of Jericho -
Year: 1986
winner David Rish
