by Marg | May 22, 2013 | Round-ups
April was another busy month for Historical Fiction reviews for the challenge with 25 reviews being submitted. Whenever I sit down to write these round-up posts, I am not necessarily sure of which aspect I am going to focus on. Over the last couple of months I have...
by Marg | Apr 24, 2013 | Round-ups
I am not sure if you have noticed or not but it is prize giving season right now! There are longlists, shortlists and prizes being announced all over the place, and the same is true in the world of historical fiction. As an unabashed fan of historical fiction, I...
by Marg | Apr 18, 2013 | News
I was honoured to be able to attend the announcement of the inaugural Stella Prize winner on Tuesday night, Â both as an interested observer and also as a representative of the team who run the Australian Women Writers Challenge. In some ways it seems like such a long...
by Marg | Mar 27, 2013 | Round-ups
It seems that we are in the midst of prize giving season, and I am really pleased that historical fiction is featuring on so many of the lists! With books like Nine Days by Toni Jordan recently winning the Indie Award for Fiction and The Light Between Oceans by M L...
by Marg | Feb 27, 2013 | Round-ups
Today I will be talking about the reviews that have been submitted to the challenge for historical fiction. January was a good month with 17 reviews all highlighting individual books! The vast majority of them were published in the last few years and include a few new...