The Prize is administered by the State Library of New South Wales on behalf of Ashurst with the winner receiving prize money of A$30,000.
Eligible works
The works must have primary reference to business or financial affairs, business or financial institutions, or people directly associated with business and financial affairs, and must aim to better inform the general reader about commercial life and its participants. Works will be written in the English language and published in book or ebook form.
The 2018 Prize will consider works first published between 1 September 2017 and 31 December 2018 that were commercially available in Australia within this period. Please note that the eligibility deadline has been extended this year to 31 December 2018.
Works eligible for nomination for a previous Ashurst Business Literature Prize are not eligible.
Eligible authors
The author(s) must be a living Australian citizen or hold permanent resident status, and the author, or one of the two joint authors, must be living at the time of nomination.
General
Works may be entered by a publisher, agent or author.
It is essential that those nominating works on behalf of others obtain permission from them and provide direct contact details for the author.
All nominations must be submitted with five copies of the nominated work. A separate form must be completed for each nomination. In some cases additional copies of the work may be requested by the judges. Regretfully, as a condition of entry, books cannot be returned.
All nominations must be made on the appropriate form and be accompanied by an entry fee of A$66 (incl GST) per title to be eligible for consideration. Please make cheque payable to the State Library of New South Wales.
The State Library of New South Wales will acknowledge receipt of nominations.
The Prize will be judged by an independent committee whose decision will be final. No correspondence or discussion will be entered into concerning the decision.
The judges may determine that the Prize not be made if the nominated works are not considered to be of sufficient merit. The judges may divide the Prize.
Judges may admit or reject certain books under extraordinary conditions and the judges' report will reflect this process.
A shortlist of no more than six books will be announced from which the winner of the Prize will be chosen.
The provision of prize money may be subject to GST.
A full copy of the guidelines and the nomination form are available on the State Library of NSW website.
