Scribe would like to congratulate Scribe author Tony Kevin.

The winner of the $5000 Eureka Street/Reader’s Feast Award for Social Justice/Human Rights writing was Tony Kevin for his essay The Day the Boat Sank. The essay takes Australian artist Kate Durham’s cycle of SIEV-X (Suspected Illegal Entry vessel ‘unknown’) paintings as inspiration and revisits the sinking explored in his book A Certain Maritime Incident and its politicised aftermath. Highly commended were writers Maddy Oliver, Arnold Zable and Irfan Yusuf.