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| | TEXT Vol 6 No 2 Tess Brady |
 | | The award, with a prize money of $20,000 (before royalties) and a guarantee of publication, is for an unpublished manuscript of more than 30,000 words by an Australian writer who is at the time of entry, not more than 35 years old. |
 | | For the first award three judges were appointed, all of them coming from the literary establishment, a tradition that has survived over the years of the award. |
 | | Mandy Sayer won the award in 1989 but at the time was living in the US, married to a US citizen and, as residency was a condition of the award, had to be coached into saying that she was a resident of Australia and was only in the US temporarily "studying". |
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