by Tsana | Jan 3, 2018 | Round-ups, Yearly wrap-up
2017 has been a year of ups and downs for many of us. But happily, it was a good year for speculative fiction reading in the Australian Women Writers Challenge. We had 233 reviews submitted to the Challenge, for 147 books by 115 authors. This is a nice increase from...
by Marisa Wikramanayake | Jan 27, 2017 | Round-ups, Yearly wrap-up
As always let us start with the numbers. Non-fiction numbers soared last year. We had 83 reviews of 60 books by 64 authors. Helen Garner had the most titles reviewed with four titles. But what else did you read in 2016? 2016 seemed to bring politics right into our...
by ladyredjess | Jan 27, 2017 | Yearly wrap-up
As I put this wrap-up together yesterday (on Australia Day), I thought about the many different voices that chorus on this continent and how privileged we are to hear them. AWW’s readers were certainly listening in 2016! There were 27 reviews of books by Indigenous...
by bernadetteinoz | Jan 20, 2017 | Yearly wrap-up
The crime, mystery, thriller, detective and suspense category of the Australian Women Writers Challenge continues to attract a healthy amount of interest from Challenge participants. In 2016 the numbers of interest included: 291 discussion posts (mostly reviews but a...
by Debbie Robson | Jan 17, 2017 | Yearly wrap-up
What a great year it’s been! Thank you to all our wonderful historical fiction reviewers who participated in the 2016 Australian Women Writer’s Challenge. We have kept pace with last year’s figures which is marvellous – 239 reviews of 127 books...
by whisperinggums | Jan 13, 2017 | Yearly wrap-up
As Marisa Wikramanayake said in last year’s wrap up, let’s start with the numbers. In 2016, there were 23 reviews for 18 books by 18 authors. This is a little down on last year’s total of 26 reviews, but reflects a continuing trend to spreading our...
