Exciting news! The HNSA, in partnership with our generous sponsor, ARA Group, is expanding the ARA Historical Novel Prize to include a category for outstanding Children and Young Adult (CYA) literature.
Open to Australian and New Zealand novelists
The submission process will be administered by the HNSA’s partner, the New England Writers’ Centre.
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What does this mean? The ARA Historical Novel Prize is now worth a total of $100,000 in prize monies. Only in its’s second year of operation, it’s now the richest genre based literary award. The winner of the Adult category Prize will be awarded $50,000, with an additional $5,000 to be awarded to each of the two shortlisted authors. In the CYA category, the winner will receive $30,000, while the two short listers will receive $5,000 each.
Designed to give historical novelists the opportunity to be recognised in a class of their own, the ARA Historical Novel Prize is a true celebration of historical fiction, and a real opportunity to foster it on a grander scale, and encourage younger readers to embrace the genre.
Last year, we received nearly 200 entries for the inaugural prize. These novels provided not only entertainment and escapism, but also enlightened readers on the richness of history. I am looking forward to exploring the bygone eras illuminated in the 2021 entries, particularly those submitted for our new CYA category.
ARA Group Founder, Executive Chair and Managing Director — and patron of the arts — Edward Federman said he is hopeful the launch of the new CYA category and additional funding for the ARA Historical Novel Prize will not only make a considerable difference to the lives of the winning authors, but also ensure the telling of history lives on.
Once again our thanks go to the New England Writers’ Centre for administering the submission process.
Entries open for both categories of the prize on 14 April 2021.
We’ll announce the winners at the 2021 HNSA virtual conference on 22 October.
So make sure you save those dates in your diary!
For more information on the contest, please visit the ARA Historical Novel Prize page. You can catch up on our last year’s winners there, too.
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