You're invited to the Barbara Jefferis Award online ceremony

30.10.20

The Australian Society of Authors is delighted to invite you to the:

For the first time ever, the Barbara Jefferis Award Ceremony will be streamed online, in a celebration hosted by award-winning author, Bri Lee. Bri will deliver a speech on the representation of women in literature prior to the announcement of the 2020 Award winner.

Watch the Ceremony here!

Bri Lee is an award-winning author, freelance journalist, and academic. Her books are Eggshell Skull and Beauty, and her third book Brains is scheduled for 2021. Her journalism and other writing has appeared in The Monthly, The Saturday Paper, Good Weekend, The Guardian Australia, and elsewhere. Bri is the 2020 UTS and Copyright Agency Writer-in-Residence. 

www.bri-lee.com

The Award is named for highly regarded author Barbara Jefferis, a founding member of the Australian Society of Authors, and is offered for “the best novel written by an Australian author that depicts women and girls in a positive way or otherwise empowers the status of women and girls in society.”

In 2020, the Award prize pool is valued at $55,000, with $50,000 for the winner and $5,000 to be shared among the short-listed authors, making this one of the most generous literary awards in Australia.

The ASA, which administers the Award, announced the 2020 shortlist on 1 October 2020:

• The White Girl by Tony Birch (UQP)
• Too Much Lip by Melissa Lucashenko (UQP)
• There Was Still Love by Favel Parrett (Hachette Australia)
• Wolfe Island by Lucy Treloar (Pan Macmillan Australia)
• The Yield by Tara June Winch (Penguin Random House Australia)

Read more about the award here.