Congratulations to the joint winners of this year's Calibre essay prize,
DR LORNA HALLAHAN - ‘ON BEING ODD’
DR DAVID HANSEN - ‘SEEING TRUGANINI’
Dr Lorna Hallahan is a social worker and theologian working as an academic in the School of Social and Policy Studies at Flinders University. She is a contributor to national and state disability policy debates who also writes and speaks regularly on ethics in human and health services.
Dr David Hansen is Senior Researcher and Specialist in the Art Department of Sotheby’s Australia. He spent twenty-five years as a public art gallery director and curator, in Warrnambool, Mt Gambier, Melbourne and Hobart.
The judges – James Ley and Peter Rose – longlisted twenty essays and shortlisted seven essays, all of which are listed on the ABR website.
My shortlisted essay, 'Retreat to the Castle', will be published in ABR in June. It is a chapter of the creative nonfiction book manuscript I am writing for my PhD, about people's experiences of caring for someone with a terminal illness at home.
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