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Amy Baillieu

Marcus Clarke

Reading Australia 11 February 2015
Marcus Clarke (1846–1881) was an Australian journalist, novelist, and poet, best known for the novel For the Term of His Natural Life (1874) which was originally serialised as His Natural Life in the Australasian Journal. Marcus Clarke, 1866 Reading Australia Brian Matthews has written on For the Term of His Natural Life (1874) for ABR as part of the Reading Australia project. Click here ... (read more)

Kim Scott

Reading Australia 11 February 2015
Professor Kim Scott (1957-) is an award-winning indigenous author. His books include True Country (1993), Benang (1999), Kayang and Me (with Hazel Brown, 2005), and That Deadman Dance (2010). He has won the Miles Franklin Literary Award twice (for Benang and That Deadman Dance) and has also been awarded the Australian Literature Society's Gold Medal (2011). Kim is the founder and chair of the Wirl ... (read more)

About Reading Australia

General 11 February 2015
Australian Book Review is pleased to contribute to Reading Australia, a visionary initiative of Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund. Reading Australia will publish online resources for the teaching and study of Australian literature in Australian schools and universities. Distinguished Australian scholars and commentators will appraise 200 major Australian books in stylish, accessible 2000-word ess ... (read more)

2014 Jolley Prize Winner: Jennifer Down

Competitions and programs 01 September 2014
Announcing the 2014 Jolley Prize winner Jennifer Down was named the winner of the 2014 Jolley Prize by Ian Dickson at The Cube, ACMI on Saturday 30 August. She received a total of $5,000 for her winning short story, ‘Aokigahara’. Faith Oxenbridge came second place with her story 'The Art of Life', winning $2,000, and Cate Kennedy came third with 'Doisneau's Kiss', winning $1,000. We would lik ... (read more)

ABR contributor list (1978-present)

About Australian Book Review 04 August 2014
Welcome to the ABR contributor list. Here you will find a list of all the contributors who have written for ABR since 1978 and the issue numbers in which they were published. 1978 (issue number 1–7) 1979 (8–17) 1980 (18–27) 1981 (28–37) 1982 (38–47) 1983(48–57) 1984 (58–67) 1985 (68–77) 1986 (78–87) 1987 (87–97) 1988 (98–107) 1989 (108–117) 1990 (118–127) 1991 (128–137 ... (read more)

2013 Porter Prize Winner: John A. Scott

Competitions and programs 30 July 2014
Four Sonnets The Drowning of Charles Kruger, Fireman(St Valentine’s Day, 1908) Comes a fire into Canal Street: its rows of clapboard tenements rotting back to marsh. He knows it too well, the ‘furniture district’. This time, a fire built on picture frames. Charles Kruger drops onto what he thought a cellar floor, finding instead his New World to be eight feet of seepage bound by stone. ... (read more)

Website news

General 12 May 2014
We last redesigned our website in March 2013, and the increase in usage and appreciation was immediate. But all websites need to evolve, and ours is no different. We realise that the current website isn’t meeting all our high standards for ABR Online (e.g. certain pages take too long to load). We have listened to feedback from subscribers, survey respondents, and those who have emailed us or con ... (read more)

Index for 2013: Nos 348–357

Indexes 16 January 2013
Reviews Index 2013 ADAMS, Michael, The Last Girl, Allen & Unwin, 357/70, Margot McGovern AITKEN, Adam, Kim Cheng Boey and Michelle Cahill (eds), Contemporary Asian Australian Poets, Puncher & Wattmann, 357/55, John Kinsella ALIZADEH, Ali, Transactions, University of Queensland Press, 353/70, Jay Daniel Thompson ALTMAN, Dennis, The End of the Homosexual?, University of Queensland Press, 35 ... (read more)

2014 Jolley Prize

Competitions and programs 20 February 2010
Jennifer Down was named the winner of the 2014 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize in front of a packed house at Melbourne Writers Festival on Saturday, 30 August. Ms Down, a Victorian writer, received $5,000 for her story entitled ‘Aokigahara’. Jennifer Down at the announcement ceremony (photograph by Torunn Momtazi) The Jolley Prize – one of Australia’s most lucrative and visible aw ... (read more)

2014 Porter Prize winner

Competitions and programs 30 August 2009
 Jessica L. Wilkinson wins 2014 Porter Prize    Australian Book Review is delighted to announce that Jessica L. Wilkinson has won the 2014 ABR Peter Porter Poetry Prize for her poem ‘Arrival Platform Humlet’. Jessica receives $4,000 for her winning poem, which was drawn from a field of just under 700 entries. Elizabeth Allen, Nathan Curnow, and Paul Kane were also shortlisted ... (read more)
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