The book review and author interview blog A Bigger Brighter World bucks the national literary trend by reviewing far more female authors than male authors.

The Stella Count, this week released by the Stella Prize with industry magazine Books+Publishing, found that last year in Australia more books written by men were reviewed than books written by women. And, in some publications, many more.

Notable exceptions to the trend were Books+Publishing, in which 63% of books reviewed were by female authors, and Good Reading magazine at 51%.

Since it began in May 2012, A Bigger Brighter World has reviewed 40 books, not including anthologies, 60% of which were by women.

The chairwoman of the Stella Prize, Aviva Tuffield, told Books+Publishing that the statistics show: “There is still work to be done to make literary editors and beyond more aware of their unconscious biases and to raise awareness of the disparity in the gender of the authors of the books they review.”