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Nominations are now open for the 2024 Mona Brand Award for Stage and Screen Writers – Early Career Writer Award valued at $10,000.
The total prize money in 2024 is $40,000, which is awarded over the following two categories:
- the Mona Brand Award ($30,000) is awarded to a women or non-binary writer for a body of outstanding work displaying broad array and which has been widely performed or screened to critical acclaim. The winner is determined by the judges. There is no application process.
- the Early Career Writer Award ($10,000) is open to women and non-binary writers who are in the early stages of their career and have had a compelling, professional work first produced, broadcast or screened between 1 January 2019 and 31 December 2023. It is free to nominate yourself, or another writer for this award.
Nominations close 5pm AEST, Monday 5 February 2024.
Please read the 
Guidelines prior to entering.
ABOUT THE AWARD
Established in 2016, the $30,000 Mona Brand Award is presented every two years to a woman or non-binary writer for a body of outstanding work displaying broad array, which has been widely performed or screened to critical acclaim.
As well as this major prize for a body of work, the Early Career Writer Award, valued at $10,000, is presented to a woman or non-binary writer who is in the early stages of their career for their first professionally produced, screened or broadcast work.
This is the only award of its kind in Australia and was made possible through a bequest to the State Library of NSW Foundation by the late Mona Fox nee Brand (1915–2007) a trailblazing Australian poet, author and a prolific playwright of nearly 30 plays. Her work, which often addressed socially relevant and controversial topics has been performed on stage, radio and television in Australia and overseas.
In 2002 the Library acquired her papers, including correspondence, diaries, manuscripts photographs, recordings and many other records of her remarkable life and career. As the custodian of this important collection it is fitting that the State Library administers and presents this Award, which not only honours the rich legacy Mona Brand imparted but celebrates the best of contemporary writing by Australian women.
For more information please refer to the Guidelines
Senior Project Officer, Awards
(02) 9273 1582 or awards@sl.nsw.gov.au
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