It continues to raise funds by hosting literary lunches featuring authors such as Richard Flanagan, Thomas Keneally, Hannah Kent, Kate Grenville, and many others,[1] and also relies on several corporate sponsors as well as the subscriptions of its members, who pay A$500 person per year.
[3] A session entitled "MUD Literary Club: The 10th Anniversary", chaired by David Sly, was scheduled for the 2022 edition of Writers' Week,[2] featuring Thomas Keneally, Hannah Kent, and Christos Tsiolkas.
[4] The MUD Literary Prize is awarded at Adelaide Writers' Week in March each year,[1] and is worth A$5,000 in cash as of 2021[update] (up from A$3,000 in 2020[5]) and the prestige, exposure and recognition that comes with being presented at a major literary festival.
[7] The inaugural prize was presented to Sarah Schmidt on March 5, 2018 at the Adelaide Writer's Week.
Her work, a crime novel based on the notorious suspected murderer Lizzie Borden, reimagined the homicide of her parents and aftermath in 1892, and described the events from her and her sister's perspective.