by Paula | Mar 15, 2015 | News
The shortlist for the 2015 Stella Prize has been announced. The six shortlisted titles are: Foreign Soil (Maxine Beneba Clarke, Hachette) The Strays (Emily Bitto, Affirm Press) The Invisible History of the Human Race (Christine Kenneally, Black Inc.) The Eye of the...
by Elizabeth Lhuede | Feb 12, 2015 | News
The Stella Prize longlist has been announced. Below is a list of the longlisted books, along with links to reviews submitted for the AWW Challenge. How well did we do? Foreign Soil by Maxine Beneba Clarke, reviewed by Sean Bookonaut,  Lou Heinrich, Jason...
by Elizabeth Lhuede | Dec 31, 2014 | News
In 2014, the Australian Women Writers challenge attracted 1578 reviews of books by Australian women (and there may be more to come). That’s a fantastic achievement and I want to thank you all – readers, bloggers, writers and the AWW team volunteers. As you...
by Yvonne Perkins | May 26, 2014 | Round-ups
Three awards were given to Australian women writers of histories and memoirs in the last month. The biggest news was the awarding of the Stella Prize to Clare Wright for The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka. There has been a flurry of publicity about the book since this...
by Paula | Apr 29, 2014 | News
Congratulations to historian Clare Wright who has won the 2014 Stella Prize with The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka, her second book which took ten years to research and write. The winner was announced tonight at a ceremony in Sydney which was MC’d by Caroline Baum and...
