by Paula | May 6, 2015 | News
The shortlist for the 2015 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal has been announced and four of the five titles are by women writers. The shortlist was chosen from a longlist of 10; seven of those were written by women. The shortlisted titles are: The Golden...
by Paula | May 3, 2015 | News
Awards season is in full swing and there have been oodles of announcements during the past few weeks. These include the longlist for the 2015 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal and the shortlists for the eleven categories of the NSW Premier’s Literary...
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 Tsana | Apr 23, 2015 | Article, News
After Paula’s comprehensive announcement of the Stella Award winner for 2015 — it was Emily Bitto for The Strays, if you missed it — I thought I’d do a quick post about the awards ceremony itself. This year the ceremony was held in the Spiegeltent,...
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 Tsana | Apr 19, 2015 | News
You may know me as your regular speculative fiction rounder-up, but today I’m going to talk to you about something different, albeit still speculative fiction. Along with Holly Kench, one of our behind-the-scenes AWWers, I am co-editing an anthology which is...
