Parergon Prize

Anne M. Scott Parergon Prize

The Anne M. Scott Parergon Prize is awarded to an emerging scholar for the best article-length scholarly work accepted to be published in Parergon during the three calendar years previous to the year in which the prize is offered. The Prize is offered biennially, with the submission and adjudication process timed so that the announcement of the winner can be made at an ANZAMEMS Biennial International Conference.

The Prize will be offered in 2025, with the winner announced at the ANZAMEMS conference to be held in Melbourne in December 2025.

Entry for the 2025 Prize is now open and closes on 1 August 2025.

For more details and eligibility requirements, please visit: https://www.anzamems.org/?page_id=8#PP

Please direct all queries regarding the Prize to info@anzamems.org

List of past Parergon Prize holders

• 2023: Dr Kirk Essary (The University of Western Australia), ''The Bloody Sweat of Our Minds’: (Dis)embodied Emotions in Erasmus, More, and Calvin’. Parergon 38.1 (2021), 41–64. https://doi.org/10.1353/pgn.2021.0003.
• 2021: Dr Keagan Brewer (Macquarie University), ‘Talking Wolves, Golden Fish, and Lion Sex: The Alterations to Gerald of Wales’s Topographia Hibernic as Evidence of Audience Disbelief?’. Parergon 37.1 (2020), 27–53. https://doi.org/10.1353/pgn.2020.0057.