The Daily Telegraph gets behind the Danger Prize
SYDNEY’S dark side will be on show at the 2018 BAD Festival with stories about killer cops, true crime and grisly murders all up for an inaugural prize, sponsored by the Daily Telegraph.
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THERE is a new annual prize for the best TV series, book or film about crime and Sydney.
The Danger Prize is an initiative of BAD: Sydney Crime Writers Festival, now in its second year.
The Daily Telegraph is the major sponsor of the prize which will be presented by Laurie Oakes at this year’s festival launch at the Justice & Police Museum on August 31.
Mark Morri, Daily Telegraph crime editor and chair of the judges’ panel, says, “A city with Sydney’s rich criminal history deserves a prize like this. You can’t understand the place if you don’t understand the part crime has played. It will help us make sense of ourselves.”
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The prize will be awarded for work published or first screened in the current financial year. This year’s crop of potential winners includes TV drama Blue Murder: killer cop, and true crime books The Suitcase Baby by Tanya Bretherton and My Mother, a Serial Killer by Hazel Baron and Janet Fife-Yeomans.
As well as the Danger Prize, there will be the Danger Lifetime Achievement Award, for someone such as Peter Corris, Bob Bottom or Gabrielle Lord, for their exploration of Sydney’s dark side in fiction or life.
“Laurie Oakes is the ideal person to present these distinguished awards,” said BAD director Denis Tracey. “Not only is he a serious fan of crime fiction, it would be true to say he knows where a lot of bodies are buried.”
Submissions for the Danger Prize should be made by July 13.
For more information see badsydney.com.