by Yvonne Perkins | Mar 18, 2013 | Round-ups
Each month the Australian Women Writers’ Challenge reveals the depth of writing and the wide range of topics and themes covered by Australian women writing histories, biographies and memoirs. This field is vast, a world within the larger world of Australian women’s...
by Paula | Feb 21, 2013 | News
There is great excitement today with the announcement of the longlist for the inaugural Stella Prize. After receiving a huge number of entries, the Stella Prize judges—writer and critic Kerryn Goldsworthy, author Kate Grenville, actor and creator Claudia Karvan,...
by Paula | Jan 24, 2013 | Round-ups
This is a wrap-up of literary awards (with a focus on Miles Franklin Award titles) and Classics reviewed in 2012. In May 2011 I attended Celebrating Varuna: Disturbing the Status Quo, a session at the Varuna component of the Sydney Writers Festival in which feminist...
by Elizabeth Lhuede | Dec 10, 2012 | Article, Guest Posts, News
I declare 2012 the year of Australian women writers. And I’m thanking the Stella Prize and the Australian Women Writers Challenge. And the happy chance that two novels by Australian women published this year have dominated the literary prizes: Anna Funder’s All that I...
by Elizabeth Lhuede | Nov 20, 2012 | Article
We live in a meritocracy – a merits-based world untainted by biases and personal prejudices. To celebrate the shift to a new website, AWW revisits the question of gender bias with Tara Moss, the author whose original stoush with literary reviewer Cameron Woodhead...
