Advances
A cynic once remarked that an editor needs two things: good grammar and a long memory. But we all know there’s a bit more to it than that. As we prepare to send the April issue to press – the four hundredth in the magazine’s second series – it occurs to me that an editor’s main function is to be a recogniser of expertise ...
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Rainbows and bad losers
The mood outside the State Library of Victoria on 15 November 2017 was exultant – once the precarious line from Canberra had been restored and the ABS’s expatiatory chief statistician, David Kalisch, finally announced that ...
Arts Issue, Peter Corrigan, John Hawke, ABR Fortieth Birthday Fellowship, Buenos Aires, Kazuo Ishiguro, and a free ABR Gift Subscription.
... (read more)Yes we can!
Confirmation of the legality of the marriage equality postal survey by the High Court ...
In this fortnight's Update: The Coming Back Out Ball, An Octoroon giveaway, Sweet Country, Archibald returns to Geelong, Maria Callas Live, Crush Festival, You Know We Belong Together, the Abbotsford Convent, Australian Dance Awards, Oddlands, The Nettelbecks at fortyfivedownstairs, and giveaway tickets to Mountain (Madman Films).
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In this fortnight's Update: Mark Leonard Winter, Opera Australia 2018, Hamlet in Adelaide, SSO's new CEO, Windmill Pictures, Opportunities at Abbotsford Convent, St Albans Writers' Festival, The Way Out, The paper piano, giveaways from Melbourne Chamber Orchestra and Madman Entertainment ...
... (read more)Jolley Prize
At a lively ceremony at Potts Point Bookshop on August 10, David Malouf named Eliza Robertson as the winner of the 2017 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize for her story ‘
In this fortnight's Update: Angels in America, Will Yeoman curates the 2018 Perth Writers' Festival, Towards Eternity, OzPod 2017, Thaïs in Melbourne, Public art in Southbank, Adelaide International Youth Film Festival, Under Your Spell, Celebrating Studio Ghibli, Babi Yar commemorative concert, and giveaways from fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, and Transmission Films ...