Articles exploring racism and national identity and the
depletion of fishing stocks have won this year's major Eureka Street
writing awards.
Eureka Street handed out awards to the winners of
the 2010 Eureka Street/Reader's Feast
Award, and the 2010 Margaret Dooley Award at the launch of the Reader's Feast
Crime and Justice Festival last Friday night.
The winner of the Margaret Dooley Award for young writers
under the age of 30 was Susie Byers, from Menora in Western Australia. Byers'
essay, ‘Being humanistic about fish', advocated for a new non-consumerist
approach to the management of global fisheries.
Award judge Fr Kevin McGovern, the Director of the Caroline
Chisholm Centre for Health Ethics, said the essay highlighted an important area
that people should know more about.
‘This
essay is outstanding for its scholarship, its extensive and thorough resource',
he said in his award comments. ‘This thoroughly researched, eloquently written
essay about a most important topic truly merits the 2010 Eureka Street Margaret
Dooley Award.'
Meanwhile,
Bronwyn Lay has won the 2010 Eureka
Street/Reader's Feast Award for her essay, ‘The Mingled Yarn'. An
Australian writer based in France, Lay's article looked at the stories we build
around ourselves that give birth to our national identity - and which also lead
to problems such as racism.
The
full list of winners is:
Eureka Street/Reader's Feast award
Winner: Bronwyn Lay
Essay title: The Mingled Yarn
Highly Commended: Nigel Pearn
Essay title: Dog School
Highly Commended: Bill Collopy
Essay title: Fear and Loathing in the Antipodes
Margaret Dooley Award
First prize: Susie Byers
Essay title: Being humanistic about fish
Second prize: Jonathan Hill
Essay title: Walawaani
Third prize: Scott Steensma
Essay title: The Culture of Cake
The
articles will be published in Eureka Street over the coming
months.
Pictured: Eureka Stree Assistant Editor Tim Kroenert awards the third prize to Scott Steensma.