Prizes and awards

The Nature Conservancy Nature Writing Prize 2017 – now open!

Enter The Nature Conservancy Australia Nature Writing Prize today! Calling all writers! The Nature Conservancy Australia is delighted to open the fourth biennial Nature Writing Prize. $5,000 will be awarded to an essay of between 3,000 and 5,000 words in the genre of ‘Writing of Place’. The...

Film
anthropoScene short film competition

A global short film competition concerning the profoundly frightening and yet somehow incredibly optimistic landscapes of the 21st century. You have 3 minutes. The Australian Institute of Landscape Architects in partnership with the National Museum of Australia and LA+ Interdisciplinary Journal of Landscape Architecture, invites the submission of...

Successful EH ARC Applications

A collection of fascinating Environmental Humanities projects were funded in the most recent round of grant announcements from the Australian Research Council (November 2015). We have collected them here in an effort to profile some of the fascinating Australian scholarship in this area. Congratulations to...

National Library of Australia by Chris Reynolds
Creative Fellowships National Library of Australia

NLA Creative Arts Fellowships Open for applications The National Library of Australia have opened a new round of Creative Arts Fellowships, to assist creative practitioners, artists and writers to develop new work using or inspired by the Library’s rich collections. Applications for 2016 National Library of Australia...

Visualising Environmental Humanities And History: A Postgraduate Workshop (4-8 May, 2015)

Australia-Pacific Environmental Humanities Observatory, Sydney Environment Institute, University of Sydney. Centre for Environmental History, Australian National University, Canberra. 4-8 May, 2015 Are you writing a PhD or MA in environmental history or humanities, and are interested in the relationship between writing and filmmaking? The Australia-Pacific Environmental Humanities Observatory will...

University of Edinburgh – Environmental Humanities Visiting Research Fellowships

Applications are invited for IASH Environmental Humanities Visiting Research Fellowships of between two and four months. These Visiting Fellowships are intended to encourage outstanding interdisciplinary research, international scholarly collaboration, and networking activities of Visiting Research Fellows with a specific focus on the Environmental Humanities. Fellows will...

Sage environmental writing contest
Sage Magazine’s Emerging Environmental Writer’s Contest 2015

Sage magazine invites writers to submit nonfiction prose that enhances our understanding of the world, each other, and ourselves. Finalist judges David Haskell Sy Montgomery Terry Tempest Williams Prizes Publication & Cash Award 1ST $1000 2ND $300 3RD $200 Deadline February 1, 2015 Guidelines and further information...

Alison Pouliot
The Nature Conservancy Australia Nature Writing Prize 2014

Calling all nature writers!  The Nature Conservancy Australia is delighted to open the third biennial Nature Writing Prize. The $5,000 award is for an essay between 3,000 and 5,000 words in the genre of ‘Writing of Place’ and the winning essay will be published in the Australian...