LUCINDA Bain has won the 2022 Bass Coast Prize for Non-Fiction with The Prom, a personal interrogation of her own place in nature in the midst of a climate emergency.
Lucinda, who wins $5000 for her essay, showed the value of perseverance after a third equal placing in the 2020 prize and an unsuccessful entry last year.
The judges said of The Prom: “Lyrical writing, tying past, present and fut...