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NEWSFLASH
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Miles Franklin Award Announced
Tim Winton has been awarded The Miles Franklin Award for a record-breaking fourth time, for his novel Breath. -
Kibble and Dobbie Winners Announced
This year's winner of the Nita B. Kibble Literary Award is Jacqueline Kent for An Exacting Heart: The Story of Hephzibah Menuhin. The Dobbie winner is Claire Thomas for Fugitive Blue. The two awards recognise female writers who have published fiction or nonfiction classified as 'life writing'. The Kibble is awarded to an established writer while the Dobbie is for a first publication by a woman writer.
Ditmar Winners
The Ditmar Awards for Australian speculative fiction were announced in Adelaide last week at Conjecture, the annual Australian SF Convention. Winners included Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan (Best Novel) and Dreaming Again, edited by Jack Dann (Best Collected Work). Also honoured were Rosaleen Love, who received the A. Bertram Chandler Award for her contribution to Australian science fiction, and Sean Williams, this year's winner of the Peter McNamara Convenors' Award for Excellence.
UPCOMING EVENTS/PRIZES/LAUNCHES
- Young Writers Bootcamp with Cate Kennedy, Brisbane 29 Jun 2009
- Market Development and Funding Information Sessions 30 Jun 2009
- Consultations: 2009 Arts Queensland Poet-in-Residence, Hinemoana Baker 27 Jun 2009
- Launch: 'Dear Rose' by Nicola Scholes 05 Jul 2009
- Val Vallis Award for Unpublished Poetry 22 Apr 2009
- More events...
HOT OFF THE PRESSES
- Pelletier : The Forgotten Castaway of Cape York - Stephanie Anderson
- Clem Always Could - Sarah Watt ...
- Your Mother Would Be Proud : True Tales of Mayhem and Misadventure - Tamara Sheward ...
- The Outsider : A Portrait of Ursula Hoff - Colin Holden
- Jatta - Jenny Hale
- More - 1520 works added in the last 14 days
ON THIS DAY, 3 JULY...
- William Strutt born 1825, 2 works
- Edward A. Austin born 1875, 1 works
- Emily Anne Facey born 1926, 29 works
- Gary Floyd born 1951, 1 works
- Mary E. Richmond died 1949, 6 works
- Sydney Jephcott died 1951, 40 works
- Renie Riano died 1971, 1 works
- Lee Gold died 1985, 1 works
- Ron Nethercote died 1995, 1 works
- Barry Crump died 1996, 21 works
- Elizabeth Riddell died 1998, 277 works
- Nancy Cato died 2000, 237 works
- 'Lapun' died 2002, 1 works
- Wenten Rubuntja died 2005, 2 works
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