Submissions for the 2022 City of Fremantle Hungerford Award are open.

Western Australian writers have two months to enter the state's longest running and most prestigious award for an unpublished manuscript, which offers a cash prize of $15,000 from the City of Fremantle and a publishing contract with Fremantle Press.

Mayor Hannah Fitzhardinge will announce the winner at a special ceremony at Fremantle Arts Centre in October. Since the City of Fremantle began sponsoring the award, three quarters of all manuscripts shortlisted have been published.
The City of Fremantle Hungerford Award is given for a full-length manuscript of fiction or narrative non-fiction by a Western Australian author previously unpublished in book form. Past recipients of the award are Brenda Walker, Gail Jones, Simone Lazaroo, Bruce Russell, Christopher Murray, Nathan Hobby, Donna Mazza, Alice Nelson, Natasha Lester, Jacqueline Wright, Robert Edeson, Madelaine Dickie, Jay Martin, Holden Sheppard and Maria Papas.
This year's judging panel is Hungerford-winner Natasha Lester, alongside authors and mentors Rashida Murphy, Richard Rossiter, and Fremantle Press publisher Georgia Richter.
Entry is online and the full terms and conditions are available from the Fremantle Press Submittable page, fremantlepress.submittable.com. Entries close at midnight WST on Sunday 20 March 2022. https://fremantlepress.com.au/submissions/hungerford/