Comments on: Fun with Friends—Helen Lowe Talks with Fellow Authors from Australia and New Zealand: Today’s Guest Is Jane Higgins

By: Jan

Jan — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 21:58:12 +0000

Love how your subconscious played a part in coming up with the opening sentence!
It’s amazing how often it happens, your mind expects to see something and fills in the blanks.

By: Paul Weimer

Paul Weimer — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 20:30:59 +0000

Aha! Thank you!

By: Helen Lowe

Helen Lowe — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 19:53:38 +0000

Paul,

The competition is specifically for unpublished ms, with publication part of the prize for the winner. I think there may be similar prizes in other parts of the world, particularly for poetry, eg the UK Templar Prize and NZ’s Kathleen Grattan Award, but NZ also has a range of similar award for Kids/YA lit, all aimed at emerging writers: the Joy Cowley and Tessa Duder Awards for example.

By: Paul Weimer

Paul Weimer — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 19:04:33 +0000

Hi Jane, Hi Helen.

I don’t understand this Text Prize. How does an unpublished manuscript win? Is that particularly common?