by Paula | Apr 26, 2015 | News
The longlists for the Nita B Kibble Literary Awards for Women Writers (the Kibble Awards) were announced on 9 April 2015. The Kibble Awards comprise the Kibble Literary Award for an established author and the Dobbie Literary Award for a first time published author....
by Paula | Apr 21, 2015 | News
Congratulations to the winner of the 2015 Stella Prize which was awarded tonight in Melbourne to author Emily Bitto for The Strays (Affirm Press). It’s a first for the Stella with a debut work taking out the $50,000 prize. Set in bohemian Melbourne in the 1930s,...
by Paula | Apr 1, 2015 | News
Ten books have been longlisted for this year’s Miles Franklin Literary Award and eight are by women writers. Two of the longlisted novels have been shortlisted for this year’s Stella prize — The Eye of the Sheep by Sofie Laguna and The Golden Age by Joan London....
by Paula | Mar 15, 2015 | News
The shortlist for the 2015 Stella Prize has been announced. The six shortlisted titles are: Foreign Soil (Maxine Beneba Clarke, Hachette) The Strays (Emily Bitto, Affirm Press) The Invisible History of the Human Race (Christine Kenneally, Black Inc.) The Eye of the...
by Paula | Dec 10, 2014 | News
You can’t be in two places at once as you don’t own a TARDIS … So, you were probably following the action on Twitter on the evening of Monday 8 December when the winners of the Queensland Literary Awards were being announced at the State Library of Queensland while...