Dimensions
152 x 216 x 20mm
Finch Publishing is proud to support Australian writers through an annual prize for an unpublished memoir manuscript. The prize is $10,000 and publication. The 2014 title will be launched (with simultaneous publication) at the Sydney Writers Festival, 19 - 25 May 2014. The prize attacts entries nationally and results in requests for the author to do additional publicity and events after the announcement. Last year's winner, Green Vanilla Tea, was reprinted immediately after publication. Foreign rights for this title have been sold in North America (New Harbinger) and Korea (Ulysses).
Leaping into a nature conservation project in the Simpson Desert with your new husband is one thing; coping with the reality of 45-degree heat, drought and isolation in the face of an unplanned and difficult pregnancy is quite another. Fortunately, Karen Harrland survived to tell her tale and to reflect on both the beauties and the hardships of outback living in her book Spinifex Baby.
