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Cape Connection
Lauren Burns was highly commended in the 2020 Bass Coast Prize for Non-Fiction for her memoir Cape Connection.

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On the Shore of the Wide World
February 13, 2021 - A wry account of growing up in Bass, on the edge of Western Port, Fiona Power’s essay was highly commended in the 2020 Bass Coast Prize for Non-Fiction. 

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​No Place Like Home
January 28, 2021 - Karen Bateman was highly commended in the Bass Coast Prize for Non-Fiction for her essay No Place Like Home. Can we ever know a place that we didn’t grow up in? The author is caught between gratitude for the beauty of her adopted home in Bass Coast and longing for another place where she has deeper roots.  

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​Sometimes nothing can happen but fire
Dec 11, 2020 - Max Hayward has won third equal prize in the 2020 Bass Coast Prize for Non-Fiction with his essay, written in the wake of the summer bush fires, contrasting Aboriginal notions of custodianship of land with European concept of ownership. 

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​Paper Thin
Nov 27, 2020 - Lucinda Bain has won third equal prize in the 2020 Bass Coast Prize for Non-Fiction with Paper Thin. a parallel memoir of a grandfather’s death and a daughter’s birth. 

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Who speaks for the trees and creeks?
Nov 13, 2020 - Drouin writer Jeannie Haughton won second prize in the Bass Coast Prize for Non-Fiction with her powerful essay, part memoir, part polemic.

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​At Screw Creek
Oct 31, 2020 - Bass Coast writer Linda Cuttriss’s prize winning essay: part local history, part family history, part true detective story.

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​History with a twist wins non-fiction prize
Oct 16, 2020 – Bass Coast writer Linda Cuttriss has won the 2020 Bass Coast Prize for Non-Fiction with At Screw Creek, part true detective story, part local history, part family history.

Literary flame still burns in Bass Coast
May 1, 2020 - The second Bass Coast Prize for Non-Fiction has been brought forward to take advantage of the lockdown when many writers have more time for writing. ​
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Phillip Island writer takes top prize
Feb 10, 2020 - Phillip Island writer and historian Christine Grayden has won first prize in the inaugural Bass Coast Prize for Non-Fiction with Jobs that no longer exist. ​

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Jobs that no longer exist
Feb 10, 2020 - Chicory drying, kelp harvesting and cuttlefish collecting … Christine Grayden’s prize-winning memoir is a fascinating insight into a world of work that once existed on Phillip Island. 

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Pittosporum Flowering
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Feb 21, 2020 - Julie Constable’s memoir of an environmental awakening won second prize in the inaugural Bass Coast prize for Non-Fiction. ​

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Alzheimer Sufferer/Carer Suite
​March 6, 2020 - Cape Woolamai poet Malcolm Brodie won third prize in the inaugural Bass Coast Prize for Non-Fiction for a cycle of 56 poems celebrating his mother Florence.

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Ed and the Birds
March 20, 2020 - Karen Bateman was highly commended in the Bass Coast Prize for Non-fiction for her essay Ed and the Birds, a very local response to environmental issues. 

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Beyond the view
April 3, 2020 - Linda Cuttriss was highly commended in the Bass Coast Prize for Non-fiction for her essay Beyond the view: Phillip Island’s landscape of labour and love.