Beyond Chernobyl: Women Respond

Beyond Chernobyl: Women Respond

Throughout 2014 AWW will occasionally invite guest authors to review books of interest to challenge participants. Today’s guest author is historical fiction writer, Isolde Martyn. According to the International Nuclear Event Scale of 1 to 7, there have been two...
2013 AWW Challenge: Poetry and Short Stories

2013 AWW Challenge: Poetry and Short Stories

Jennifer Maiden’s win of the overall prize for the Victorian Premier’s Prize for her poetry collection Liquid Nitrogen is a boon for Australia’s women poets.  As Paula notes in her roundup of these awards, author Magdalena Ball reviewed this collection, contemplating...
Poetry Roundup June-Nov 2013

Poetry Roundup June-Nov 2013

Reviews of poetry written for the Australian Women Writers Challenge are always a joy to read because their writers are so attentive to language, ideas and form, and the 12 reviews penned between June and November are no exception. Author Magdalena Ball reviewed Bread...
Sept – Nov 2013 Roundup: Diversity

Sept – Nov 2013 Roundup: Diversity

November is nearly up and we’re hurtling towards the end of the year!  This is my last monthly roundup, as the next one that I post will be an overview of the year.  This post covers September to November (as last month I was diverted by our focus on Australian Women...