The Australian Universities Heads of English (AUHE) is calling for nominations for the 2025 AUHE Prize for Literary Scholarship, which will be awarded to the best book of literary scholarship published by an Australian-based author in the last twelve months.
Works eligible for the prize in 2025 include edited collections, reference works, born-digital works equivalent to printed books, bibliographic works of substance and other forms of equivalent scholarly production. All forms of literary scholarship are acceptable, including critical, theoretical, empirical, historical, textual and so on. Interdisciplinary scholarship is not precluded though a work must engage with what is understood as books and writing in whatever form.
Nominated books need to have been published between 1 July 2023 and 30 June 2025.
The prize is decided by a panel of members nominated by the AUHE executive. This year the panel members are Claire Knowles, Margaret Henderson and Chris Danta. The winner will be announced at the time of the AUHE AGM in late November.
Please forward all nominations to the Chair of the judging panel, Chris Danta: christopher.danta@anu.edu.au by 5pm, Friday 29 August 2025.
Nominators should supply or ensure access to three copies of the nominated text. Either hard or electronic copies are acceptable, with electronic copies preferred. Authors may self-nominate. If nominating a book, you have not authored, please contact the author of the text you are nominating to avoid duplicate entries. Publishers may also nominate books.
For any queries, please email the Chair of the judging panel.
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