Announcing the Erica Bell Foundation Literature Award
Tasmanian Writers’ Centre
The Tasmanian Writers’ Centre is very proud to be associated with this new award, offering $10,000 for an unpublished manuscript by a Tasmanian writer, in memory of Dr Erica Bell.
The Erica Bell Foundation was unveiled today, comprising of Tasmania’s largest annual cash prizes of $10,000 to be awarded to the winners of the Erica Bell Foundation Medical Research Award and the Erica Bell Foundation Literature Award.
Erica Bell Foundation founder and Erica’s husband, Dr Bastian Seidel, said the Foundation was established to celebrate excellence in literature and medical research in Tasmania and to honour the outstanding achievements of Erica Bell, by awarding annual cash prizes to an emerging novelist and an emerging medical researcher.
“The two awards represent the highest annual awards of their kind in Tasmania, with each winner receiving $10,000, each runner-up receiving $1,000, and the second runners-up receiving $500,” Dr Seidel said.
Tasmanian Writers’ Centre Director Chris Gallagher said she was thrilled to support the Erica Bell Foundation in announcing this new annual unpublished manuscript award for Tasmanian writers.
“The Writers’ Centre will oversee the judging process, awarding the prize to the most promising work and the one which will benefit most from this opportunity,’ Ms Gallagher said.
“I am also pleased to announce the judges for the 2014 Erica Bell Foundation Literature Award, Tasmanian writers Lian Tanner and Rohan Wilson.
“I would encourage Tasmania’s writers to be bold and ambitious….we look forward to receiving your manuscript.”
Applications for the Erica Bell Foundation Medical Research Award and the Erica Bell Foundation Literature Award open on 1 October and close on 31 October 2014.
See here for the full press release: http://www.tasmanianwriters.org/news/announcing-erica-bell-foundation-literature-award
Full details on how to enter your manuscript will appear on the foundation’s website – http://ericabellfoundation.org/ – soon.