Entries are now invited for the 2005 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards. Full details, including entry forms, can be found at the Awards' website. Entries close 3 June 2005.
The Awards "are open to all Australians with works first published (or performed) between 1 May 2004 and 30 April 2005." Categories are:
The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction
The Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-Fiction
The prize for Young Adult Fiction
The CJ Dennis Prize for Poetry
The Louis Esson Prize for Drama
The Alfred Deakin Prize for an Essay Advancing Public Debate
The Village Roadshow Prize for Screen Writing
The Prize for Science Writing (1 May 2003 to 30 April 2005)
The Grollo Ruzzene Foundation Prize for Writing about Italians in Australia (1 May 2003 to 30 April 2005)
The Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript by an Emerging Victorian Writer
