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News from the Editor's Desk - December 2016
Wednesday, 23 November 2016CALIBRE ESSAY PRIZE
For the eleventh year in a row, we seek entries in the Calibre Essay Prize – the country’s premier prize for an unpublished non-fiction essay. Calibre is now worth a total of $7,500. The winner will receive $5,000; the runner-up, $2,500. Both essays will appear in
2016 Calibre Essay Prize winner
Wednesday, 25 May 2016
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News from the Editor's Desk - June–July 2016
Wednesday, 25 May 2016News from the Editor's Desk in the June–July issue of Australian Book Review.
... (read more)The history of my onomastic apprehension and misapprehension about the big thing in the middle of Australia: It is called Ayers Rock. No, it is ...
... (read more)2017 Calibre Essay Prize Judges
Tuesday, 26 August 2014
Sheila Fitzpatrick, a professor at the University of Sydney specialising in the history of modern Russia, is one of the world’s most influential Soviet historians. She is the author of two memoirs, My Father’s Daughter (2010) and A Spy ...
2018 Calibre Essay Prize Judges
Tuesday, 26 August 2014
Andrea Goldsmith is a Melbourne-based novelist, reviewer and essayist. Her literary essays have appeared in Heat, Meanjin, Australian Book Review, Best Australian Essays, as well as numerou ...
2019 Calibre Essay Prize Judges
Tuesday, 26 August 2014
J.M. Coetzee was born in South Africa and educated in South Africa and the United States. ...
Enter the $7,500 Calibre Essay Prize, judged this year by Sheila Fitzpatrick, Billy Griffiths and Peter Rose.
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