AAWP/UWRF Translators’ and Writers’ Prizes 2023

The Australasian Association of Writing Programs (AAWP) and Ubud Writers and Readers Festival (UWRF) are calling for applications for the Translators’ prize and the Emerging Writers’ Prize. 

AAWP/UWRF Translators’ prize

The AAWP/UWRF Translators’ prize collective vision is to promote the work of under-represented writers to a broader ‘English-using’ audience, in order to celebrate the art of translation by building both local and global writing communities from within our broad geographical region.

This prize is open to translators at any stage of their career. 

Selected winners receive: a festival pass to Ubud Writers and Readers Festival (UWRF) and accommodation for the duration of the festival. In addition, they will receive a one-year annual membership to the AAWP and fully subsidised conference fees to attend the annual conference of the AAWP, where they will be invited to read from their work. The editors at Meniscus Literary Journal will also consider their work for publication. 

AAWP/UWRF Emerging Writers’ Prize

The Prize is intended to be a publication pathway and a networking opportunity for emerging writers. This competition is open to emerging writers who do not have a full-length, single-authored, commercially published, print publicationin poetry or prose, or a hybrid form crossing these boundaries.

Winners will receive: a festival pass to Ubud Writers and Readers Festival (UWRF) and accommodation for the duration of the festival. In addition, they will receive a one-year annual membership to the AAWP and fully subsidised conference fees to attend the annual conference of the AAWP, where they will be invited to read from their work. The editors at Meniscus will also consider their work for publication. 

AAWP/UWRF application guidelines

Deadline: 27 June 2023