On A Bigger Brighter World’s Facebook page this week we’ve seen cool bookstores and amazing libraries, the Man Booker longlist, the WA Premier’s shortlist and some Pen Literary Award winners. There were one hundred novels to consider and nine to recommend. There was literary Lego and literary tattoos (twice) and items about Murnane and Bolano.
I reread On Chesil Beach last weekend and it’s still one of the saddest and most beautiful books I know. Ian McEwan’s work has great soul; such a gift to our world. Other books I’ve happily revisited in the last two months include: Looking for Alibrandi (Melina Marchetta) I was given a pretty presentation copy
My story “Pelts” is being published in Spineless Wonders’ poem/micro-fiction anthology Writing To The Edge later in June. I’m in great company as the anthology includes invited authors and finalists from the 2013 joanne burns Award, judged by novelist and creative writing lecturer Shady Cosgrove. Ms Cosgrove said the anthology contains “tight, thoughtful writing that
Next Tuesday, May 20, I’m pleased to be taking part in the inaugural Penguin Random House National Book Bloggers Forum at the Random House Australia offices in North Sydney. It’s an interesting and informative program and I’m particularly looking forward to meeting the winner of the 2013 Best Australian Blog Competition blogger and author Sneh Roy.
The Stella Prize, a major literary award celebrating Australian women’s writing, this week announced the 2014 Stella Prize longlist: Letter to George Clooney by Debra Adelaide Moving Among Strangers by Gabrielle Carey Burial Rites by Hannah Kent Night Games by Anna Krien Mullumbimby by Melissa Lucashenko The Night Guest by Fiona McFarlane Boy, Lost by
Mark Smith has won the joanne burns Award for “10.42 to Sydenham”, a short-short story, told from the perspective of an African migrant, about a girl being bullied on a train. The joanne burns Award is a micro-fiction and prose poem competition for works of up to 800 words. joanne burns is one of Australia’s
My story “Walk Beside Me” has been shortlisted for the 2013 Overland Victoria University Short Story Prize for New and Emerging Writers. The four judges from Victoria University and Overland magazine — Enza Gandalfo, Jennifer Mills, Jeff Sparrow and Jacinda Woodhead — “read blind” and chose from 830 entries what they believed to be “12
Friends are urging me to see the movie The Turning this October long weekend and, if my time-poor dips into popular Australian Tim Winton’s book (on which the film is based) are anything to go by, it should be both challenging and fun. Even without the cinematic drawcards of Cate Blanchett, Richard Roxburgh, Hugo Weaving
Today Spineless Wonders released “Shooting Star” by Marjorie Lewis-Jones, the fifth in its series of twelve women’s long eStories selected by Amanda Lohrey. “Marjorie Lewis-Jones’ insightful characterisation of Orley as well as her earthy narrative, connects the reader to a uniquely personal experience with a most recognisable and universal theme.” Take a look at the
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
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