by whisperinggums | Nov 13, 2019 | Round-ups
October was an exciting month for awards with the winners for the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards being announced, along with other significant awards news. All this will be at the end of the post, as usual. Orsome October! We had 43 reviews posted this month,...
by whisperinggums | Oct 15, 2019 | Round-ups
September saw the announcement of one of the last major shortlists for the year, the Queensland Literary Awards, so look at for those at the end of this post. Springing into September Another decent month for reviews, with 42 being posted. Here are some highlights:...
by whisperinggums | Sep 11, 2019 | Round-ups
In August we saw shortlists for some smaller, but nonetheless interesting awards announced. We also had the Canberra and Melbourne festivals (albeit Melbourne’s continued into September.) And, we clearly had a lot of reading, if the number of reviews are any...
by whisperinggums | Aug 14, 2019 | Round-ups
July was an exciting month because we had both the shortlist and the winner of the Miles Franklin Award announced – such riches for us lin Liteary Fiction land. I will share the news in the last section of this post. Meanwhile, I hope you all enjoyed the middle...
by whisperinggums | Jul 10, 2019 | Round-ups
And so we reach the middle of another year at the challenge, and things are progressing well here in Literary and Classics land, tracking, I’d say, pretty much around last year’s rate. June is a less dramatic month, awards-wise, but we did have a couple of...