by wadholloway | May 27, 2022 | Round-ups
Louise Mack, extract from Teens (1897) As we posted in our recent Ethel Turner juvenilia post, Ethel Turner, author of Seven Little Australians, and her older sister Lillian practised their literary skills by producing a newspaper while still at school. In that post,...
by Tegan Edwards | Jan 1, 2022 | Round-ups
Hello 2021 Readers! 2021 has been a strange and often hard year for many of us. I shan’t be sad in bidding it adieu. For myself, I had to put a research project I wished to finish many months ago on hold due to ill health. I achieved only half of my reading goal and...
by Jess Fitzpatrick | Dec 30, 2021 | Round-ups
Welcome back to what will be my final romance round-up for the Australian Women Writer’s challenge. As a fellow reviewer who has participated in the AWW challenge for many years, and now as the Romance Editor for 2021, writing this final wrap post was...
by Janine Rizzetti | Dec 22, 2021 | Round-ups
The History Memoir and Biography Round Up is always published on the fourth Wednesday of the following month, which almost makes it history itself by the time the end of the month rolls around! As you already know, the Australian Women Writers Challenge is changing...
by Mic Loves Books | Dec 17, 2021 | Round-ups
The Australian Women Writer’s Challenge as we know it is coming to an end so I write this wrap up with mixed feelings. It has been a decade of highlighting Australian women writers and I am proud to have been a part of that for the last few years. This is my...
by Ashleigh Meikle | Dec 15, 2021 | Round-ups, Yearly wrap-up
Since 2011, the volunteer-led Australian Women Writers Challenge has sought to promote the writing of Australian women of all backgrounds and from all eras, as many participants read as many as they can over the course of twelve months, and several of us working in...