Calibre Prize
Australian essay award
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The Calibre Essay Prize is an annual Australian Book Review essay-writing award. The prize, first awarded in 2007, is worth AU$7,500 and is deemed 'the nation's premier essay-writing competition'[1] and 'Australia's leading award for an original essay'.[2]
The prize is 'intended to generate brilliant new essays and to foster new insights into culture, society, and the human condition'[3] and welcomes entries from published authors and commentators, as well as from emerging writers. All non-fiction subjects are eligible for submission.
History
The Prize was established in 2007. It is presented annually by the ABR and 'awards the most outstanding original essay contributed by a leading Australian author or commentator'.[4] The Prize was previously co-funded by the Australian Copyright Agency. It is currently supported by Colin Golvan QC.
Winners
- 2007 – Elisabeth Elisabeth Holdsworth: "An die Nachgenborenen: For Those Who Come After"[5]
- 2008 – Rachel Robertson: "Reaching One Thousand"[6] and Mark Tredinnick: "A Storm and a Teacup"[7]
- 2009 – Kevin Brophy: "What're yer looking at yer fuckin' dog: Violence and Fear in Žižek's Post-political Neighbourhood"[8] and Jane Goodall: "Footprints"[9]
- 2010 – Lorna Hallahan: "On Being Odd"[10] and David Hansen: "Seeing Truganini"[11]
- 2011 – Dean Biron: "The Death of the Writer"[12] and Moira McKinnon: "Who Killed Matilda?"[13]
- 2012 – Matt Rubinstein: "Body and Soul: Copyright and Law Enforcement in the Age of the Electronic Book"[14]
- 2013 – Martin Thomas: "Because it's your country: Bringing Back the Bones to West Arnhem Land"[15]
- 2014 – Christine Piper: "Unearthing the past"[16]
- 2015 – Sophie Cunningham: "Staying with the trouble"[17]
- 2016 – Michael Winkler: "The Great Red Whale"[18]
- 2017 – Michael Adams: "Salt Blood"[19]
- 2018 – Lucas Grainger-Brown: "We Three Hundred"[20]
- 2019 – Grace Karskens: "Nah Doongh's Song"[21]
- 2020 – Yves Rees: "Reading the Mess Backwards"[22]
- 2021 – Theodore Ell: "Façades of Lebanon"[23]
- 2022 – Simon Tedeschi: "This Woman My Grandmother"[24]
- 2023 – Tracy Ellis: "Flow States"[25]
- 2024 – Tracey Slaughter: "why your hair is long & your stories short"[26]
- 2025 – Jeanette Mrozinski: "Eucharist"[27]