The Stella Prize

The Stella Prize

I was honoured to be able to attend the announcement of the inaugural Stella Prize winner on Tuesday night,  both as an interested observer and also as a representative of the team who run the Australian Women Writers Challenge. In some ways it seems like such a long...
Stella Prize Shortlist Roundup

Stella Prize Shortlist Roundup

The inaugural Stella Prize winner will be announced tonight and in case you missed the timely discussion on Radio National about The Culture of Prize Giving, you can catch up here. Sophie Cunningham (Chair of the Stella Prize), Stuart Glover (Chair of the Queensland...
Awards Madness! Children’s Books in the shortlists

Awards Madness! Children’s Books in the shortlists

April is a busy month for award-watching: the inaugural Stella Prize is announced on April 16, longlists for the Kibble & Dobbie Awards were released, along with those for the the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards and, for those of us with a specific interest in books...
March 2013 Roundup: Classics and Literary

March 2013 Roundup: Classics and Literary

The year is hotting up and it’s starting to get serious here in Literary-and-Classics land. Not only were significantly more reviews posted in March but the awards season is well underway. The Miles Franklin Longlist was announced in March (and reported on this...
Inaugural Stella Prize Shortlist Announced

Inaugural Stella Prize Shortlist Announced

Congratulations to all those on the first ever Stella Prize shortlist which was announced yesterday! Chair of the judges Kerryn Goldsworthy said: In choosing a shortlist of six books from the longlist of twelve, the judges concentrated on picking the six we thought...