by ladyredjess | May 18, 2017 | Article, Guest Posts
Over May we’re hosting a focus on lesbian/queer women writers, and we’re very happy that Eden S. French has penned some excellent words for us. Eden is an award-winning novelist and graduate researcher. She is presently signed to Queer Pack, a new...
by Tsana | Apr 5, 2017 | Round-ups
Horror is one of those genres that often gets overlooked in Australia. When I was dividing my AWW round-ups into fantasy, science fiction and horror, horror was consistently the least reviewed genre. But we have some great horror writers in Australia, many of them...
by Tsana | Mar 1, 2017 | Article
This month, instead of moving straight onto another subgenre of speculative fiction I thought I’d shine a light on the most prestigious spec fic awards in Australia: the Aurealis Awards. The awards were first established in 1995 and, although the categories have...
by Tsana | Jan 4, 2017 | Round-ups, Yearly wrap-up
Welcome readers to 2017 and to an overview of all the speculative fiction that was reviewed as part of the Australian Women Writers Challenge in 2016. We received 202Â reviews of 134 books by 97 authors throughout the year. Good job, everyone! You can see the full list...
by Tsana | Nov 2, 2016 | Round-ups
Hello again, dear readers. The past couple of months have not been especially prolific on the AWW reviewing front, but some reading and reviewing got done, so let me tell you about the books that caught our readers these past two months. Lian Hearn was the most...