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What makes you want to review a book? General Fiction #aww2016 wrap-up

What makes you want to review a book? General Fiction #aww2016 wrap-up

by Elizabeth Lhuede | Jan 6, 2017 | Yearly wrap-up

General Fiction is the biggest category for the AWW challenge, accounting for 40% of all reviews submitted during 2016. The total number of reviews of books written for adults was 558; there were of 250 titles by 202 individual authors. You can find the complete list...

VIDA count and Women who review: a database

by Marisa Wikramanayake | Apr 18, 2015 | Article, News

As part of our focus on writers of divese heritage this month, AWW team member, Marisa Wikramanayake, was invited to write about the VIDA Count and her new database of female reviewers.* Marisa writes: On April 4, last week, the results of the 2014 VIDA Count were...
2014 AWW challenge officially open – happy year of reading

2014 AWW challenge officially open – happy year of reading

by Elizabeth Lhuede | Jan 1, 2014 | Memes/Challenges, News

Happy new year, everyone, including veterans of AWW2012 and AWW2013, as well as new challenge participants. The AWW2014 challenge is officially open. That means, you can now sign up, and start linking reviews. The challenge will run till Dec 31 and you can sign up at...
Good books don’t have a use-by date: the real value of AWW

Good books don’t have a use-by date: the real value of AWW

by Elizabeth Lhuede | Dec 31, 2013 | Article

If you count the number of reviews generated, 2013 was a great year for the AWW challenge. Participants wrote and published nearly 1800 reviews of books by Australian women in all genres. Plenty of people found excellent books to read, among them bestselling new...
2014 Challenge – sign-up now open

2014 Challenge – sign-up now open

by Elizabeth Lhuede | Dec 27, 2013 | Memes/Challenges

What is it? The 2014 Australian Women Writers Challenge was set up to help overcome gender bias in the reviewing of books by Australian women. The challenge encourages avid readers and book bloggers, male and female, Australian and non-Australian, to read and review...
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