The Jennifer Burbidge Short Story Award

The Jennifer Burbidge Short Story Award

New to the Williamstown Literary Festival in 2021 is the Jennifer Burbidge Short Story Award. The Burbidge Prize was established in 2001 by Mary and Andrew Burbidge to honour the life of their eldest daughter, Jennifer, who died aged 21. The prize is funded by royalties from Mary Burbidge’s memoir Forever Baby, published by HarperCollins in 1999, and welcomes short stories of fiction or non-fiction up to 3000 words on the theme of disability.

Jenny Burbidge

From 2021, the Burbidge Prize will be offered as part of the Williamstown Literary Festival suite of writing awards.

Entries to the Burbidge Prize are now closed and the winners will be announced online Saturday, 19 June 2021.

To register your interest to attend the online Zoom session, please email Dr Chris Ringrose at: c.ringrose@willylitfest.org.au