Hungerford Award is given biennially to a full-length manuscript of fiction or narrative non-fiction by a Western Australian author previously unpublished in book form.
First established in 1988, the award was set up to discover and develop new writers from Western Australia who have not previously been published in book form.
[2] As of 2018, the City of Fremantle pledged to support the award for a further six years.
The winner receives a cash prize and a publishing contract with Fremantle Press.
The Award is named in honour of Tom Hungerford, a prominent Western Australian writer.