The inaugural Eureka Street/Reader's Feast Awards for Social Justice/Human Rights Writing were presented at the inaugural Crime & Justice Festival on Friday night.
The inaugural Eureka Street/Reader's Feast Awards for Social Justice/Human Rights Writing were presented at the inaugural Crime & Justice Festival on Friday night.
The winner of the $5000 Eureka Street/Reader's Feast Award for Social Justice/Human Rights writing was Tony Kevin for his essay The Day the Boat Sank. The essay takes Australian artist Kate Durham's cycle of SIEV-X (Suspected Illegal Entry vessel ‘unknown') paintings as inspiration and revisits the sinking explored in his book A Certain Maritime Incident (Scribe) and its politicised aftermath. Highly commended were writers Maddy Oliver, Arnold Zable and Irfan Yusuf.
The winner of the $1500 Margaret Dooley Award for Young Writers (open to those under 35) was Ruth Limkin, a pastor and freelance journalist, for an article that lays out arguments against euthanasia. Runners up were Jonathan Hill and Cara Munro.
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