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2011 Stanner Award: Conditions of Entry
Who may enter
The award is open to Indigenous Australians over 18 years of age who have written a scholarly manuscript in the area of Australian Indigenous studies, as broadly understood, which does not include fiction and poetry. Authors will be required to warrant the following:
- Manuscripts must be the original work of the author or authors and not infringe the rights of others.
- All authors must be Indigenous Australians; and a maximum of three authors may have collaborated on the manuscript. Collections will not be accepted.
- Authors may have been published before, but the manuscript they are submitting can not have been previously published in whole or in part (where that part constitutes over 10 per cent of the manuscript).
- For the purposes of these conditions of entry for the Stanner Award, an Indigenous Australian means:
- a person of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent; and
- who identifies as an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander; and
- is accepted as such by the community in which s/he lives or has lived.
Authors' claims to Indigeneity are to be supported by supplying the name and contact deetails of two referees who can support the author's claim against the above criteria, and who meet the criteria themselves. Referees must be contactable on these details between 31 January 2011 and 30 June 2011.
Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) staff and visiting researchers who meet the above criteria may enter the award. AIATSIS Council and Research Advisory Committee members may not enter the award.
Submitted manuscripts will be deemed ineligible if the author/s’ warranties (promises) are found to be untrue.
Manuscript
Manuscripts submitted must meet the following criteria:
- Manuscripts must not have been published previously (in whole or in part where that part constitutes more than 10 per cent of the manuscript), or be under consideration by other publishers or currently entered into other awards. Aboriginal Studies Press will have the right to consider for publication all manuscripts submitted for the award, and will advise authors of the outcome by 30 June 2011, at which point authors will be free to submit their manuscripts elsewhere.
- Authors may submit only one entry, whether as an individual author, or as one of up to three joint-authors.
- Manuscripts must be longer than 60,000 words, but not exceed 120,000.
- Manuscripts previously submitted to ASP for publication will not be eligible, however, manuscripts previously submitted to other publishers for publication will be eligible.
- A numbering system will be used to ensure judging is based on the merit of an individual manuscript. For this reason, author/s names should appear on the entry form only, and nowhere else.
Manuscripts must meet these Conditions of Entry, as failure to do so will result in the manuscript being deemed ineligible for the Award.
Judging
Three judges will assess the manuscripts on the following (in no particular order):
- scholarly merit;
- the importance of the manuscript’s contribution to the advancement of knowledge of the subject matter;
- the capacity of the manuscript to promote, and contribute to, a greater awareness, understanding and acceptance of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander intellectual traditions, cultures and identities; and
- the capacity to be read by a broad audience, when edited.
- The Award will be made every two years.
- Aboriginal Studies Press will have the first option to consider all manuscripts for possible publication. Publication of any manuscript submitted to the award is conditional on agreeing to a contract on the publisher’s normal terms.
- As part of the prize, the winner of the Award will be expected to work collaboratively with an experienced mentor/editor of Aboriginal Studies Press’s choosing.
- Winning authors will be expected to participate in media activities associated with the Award. Short-listed authors may be required to do the same. AIATSIS will meet the reasonable costs of attendance at these events.
- $5000 prize money;
- a glass statuette, inscribed with their name;
- mentoring and editorial support (up to 50 hours), in order to bring the manuscript to a publishable standard;
- out-of-pocket expenses the winner may incur in maintaining contact with their editor, up to the value of $500 (not including travel or accommodation); and
- publication of their manuscript by Aboriginal Studies Press.
All majority decisions by the judges will be final and no correspondence will be entered into.
The judges may choose not to award a prize if insufficient entries are received of appropriate standard.
Judges will be selected for their expertise and past experience. Aboriginal Studies Press staff will not be involved in the judging of any manuscripts.
Judges have the discretionary ability to assign commendations to those manuscripts they deem of exceptional quality.
The Award
The winner will be awarded the following:
ENQUIRIES
Please direct any enquiries to Lisa Fuller at Aboriginal Studies Press on (02) 6246 1192 or lisa.fuller@aiatsis.gov.au.