This will probably be my last post on specialised literary awards, but it is an important one to cover, not least because while I was away a non-fiction work, Clare Wright's The forgotten rebels of Eureka, won the Stella Prize in its second year. This is notable because while most awards seem to be specially … Continue reading Monday musings on Australian literature: Non-fiction literary awards
Monday musings
Monday musings on Australian literature: If I were going to the Sydney Writers Festival
I'm afraid I don't have a real Monday musings today. I'm in the process of packing up to leave Toronto later today, so thought I'd just share with you the program from this year's Sydney Writers Festival. Once again, I don't expect that I'll manage to attend. Its timing is always slap-bang in the middle … Continue reading Monday musings on Australian literature: If I were going to the Sydney Writers Festival
Monday musings on Australian literature: Short story awards
You all know by now that I really enjoy short stories. I have not, though, paid much attention here to short story awards, partly because, despite a few recent posts on awards, awards are not a major focus on my blog. However, I was down at New South Wales' beautiful south coast a few weekends … Continue reading Monday musings on Australian literature: Short story awards
Monday musings on Australian literature: Emerging or debut writer awards
Almost as important for emerging writers as the unpublished manuscript awards, about which I wrote recently, are the awards devoted to new, mostly defined as debut, writers. That is, these awards are for writers lucky enough to have been published - and who knows, some may have won an unpublished manuscript award to get published - … Continue reading Monday musings on Australian literature: Emerging or debut writer awards
Monday musings on Australian literature: Juvenilia Press
Literature enthusiasts are often not happy to just read their favourite authors' novels. They (we) want to read everything written by our favourites. This can include letters, diaries and juvenilia. I have written before about Jane Austen's Juvenilia, including a review of her story Love and freindship (sic). Her early works provide a wonderful insight … Continue reading Monday musings on Australian literature: Juvenilia Press
Monday musings on Australian literature : University of Canberra Book of the Year, 2014
Last year I wrote about the University of Canberra's Book of the Year initiative in which they required each new student to read and be prepared to discuss the chosen book for the year. The book was provided gratis to all beginning students, and teaching staff was expected to incorporate the book somewhere in their … Continue reading Monday musings on Australian literature : University of Canberra Book of the Year, 2014
Monday musings on Australian literature: Unpublished manuscript awards
I've recently reviewed a couple of books which have won unpublished manuscript awards: Hannah Kent won the inaugural Writing Australia Unpublished Manuscript Award in 2011 for Burial rites (my review), and Margaret Merrilees won the Unpublished Manuscript Award at the Adelaide Writer's Week in 2012 for The first week (my review). Now, I've discussed awards a few … Continue reading Monday musings on Australian literature: Unpublished manuscript awards
Monday musings on Australian literature: Pascall Prize
The Pascall Prize is one of those under-the-radar sorts of awards, that is, one that tends not to get much general press. However, that doesn't mean it's not significant. In fact, I've had it in my list of topics for a couple of years but, having mentioned in my David Malouf birthday post last week … Continue reading Monday musings on Australian literature: Pascall Prize
Monday musings on Australian literature: More on nurturing Australian literary classics
In early 2012, I wrote a post on nurturing Australian classics in which I mentioned, among other things, some publishing initiatives such as Text Classics and Sydney University's Australian Classics Library. Text Publishing has continued since then to publish more and more titles, with over 70 titles now being available. Presumably this means that sales are … Continue reading Monday musings on Australian literature: More on nurturing Australian literary classics
Monday musings on Australian literature: Capital women novelists
Hmmm ... it's taken me a while to get back to my so-called series on Canberra's writers. Over a year ago I wrote posts on Capital women and Capital men poets, and fully intended to write about the fiction writers last year too, but somehow the year got away from me. However, today is Canberra … Continue reading Monday musings on Australian literature: Capital women novelists
