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The Australian/ Vogel Literary Award





Do you dream of being a published writer? Enter Australia’s most prestigious award for an unpublished manuscript.

The Australian/Vogel Literary Award is one of Australia's richest and the most prestigious award for an unpublished manuscript by a writer under the age of thirty-five. Offering publication by Allen & Unwin and prize money totalling $20,000, the Vogel Award has launched the careers of some of its most successful writers, including Tim Winton, Kate Grenville, Gillian Mears, Brian Castro, Mandy Sayer and Andrew McGahan.

Vogel-winning authors have gone on to win or be shortlisted for other major awards, such as the Miles Franklin Award, the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Booker Prize.

Entries for the 2010 Australian/Vogel Literary Award are now closed.

This year is the 30th anniversary of The Australian/Vogel Literary Award and some exciting changes are afoot. After the judges make their final decision, the winner will be contacted by Allen & Unwin and work will begin on the winning manuscript.  However, it won't be until May 2011, that the winner's name will be made public simultaneous with publication of their winning book.

Previous Winners

Lisa Lang

Lisa Lang

Lisa Lang is a Melbourne writer. She is the author of the non-fiction title E W Cole: Chasing the Rainbow, and was selected in 2007 for the Australian Society of Authors' mentorship program.
Kristel Thornell

Kristel Thornell

Born in 1975, Kristel Thornell grew up in Sydney and the Blue Mountains. She has lived in North America for much of the last ten years, in Mexico, the United States and Canada, where she completed an M.A. in English at the University of New Brunswick. She has also taught Italian language and literature, French and Spanish, and has published reviews, poetry and fiction in a range of journals, including Meanjin, Overland, Southerly and Island. Kristel is currently living in the US.
Andrew Croome

Andrew Croome

Andrew Croome was born Canberra but grew up in Hobart and Albury/Wodonga. In 1998, he moved to Melbourne to attend university and is yet to leave. He has worked as a computer programmer, creative writing tutor and copywriter, and is soon to complete a PhD in Creative Writing at The University of Melbourne. Document Z, for which he won the 2008 Australian/Vogel Literary Award, is his first novel.
Andrew McGahan

Andrew McGahan

Andrew McGahan's first novel Praise (1992) was winner of The Australian/Vogel Literary Award.  Since then he has written the prequel 1988, and his third novel Last Drinks was shortlisted for multiple awards. In 2004 The White Earth was published and went on to win the Miles Franklin Literary Award.

Recently published

Spotlight:

Utopian Man

by Lisa Lang

An exquisite historical novel about a remarkable man who chose his own path, charming and scandalising others in equal measure.

Spotlight:

Night Street

by Kristel Thornell

An intensely satisfying novel that celebrates the short richly lived life of Australian artist, Clarice Beckett.

Spotlight:

Document Z

by Andrew Croome

A masterful, taut and atmospheric novel of political espionage and intrigue, telling the story of the Petrov defection during the Cold War of the 1950s.