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• Two Winners of Merlyn Myer Biography Stipends
  Awards of $50,000 each have been granted to Thornton McCamish and Geordie Williamson, the first recipients of the recently inaugurated Merlyn Myer Biography Stipends. Thestipends are an initiative of the Sidney Myer Fund.They were established to honour ...
• StoryArts Festival Ipswich
  Free talks, performances, exhibitions, and writing and illustration workshops for children will be on offer at this year's StoryArts Festival in Ipswich. This biennial festival, organised by the Ipswich District Teacher-Librarian Network, opens on 7 ...
• Two Winners for Environment Award for Children's Literature 2013
  The Last Dance by Sally Morgan won the pre-school category in the Wilderness Society's 2013 Environment Award for Children's Literature. Guest judge Jackie French said the 'beautifully illustrated' book was 'another in a long series of books about ...
• Environment Award for Children's Literature 2013
  The Wilderness Societyhas announced the shortlist for its 2013Environment Award for Children's Literature. Each year, the award honours books for children that promote a sense of caring and responsibility for the environment. The winners of the prize are ...
• Margo Lanagan on Writing and the Writing Process
  Writing 'is where I do my most wholehearted living', Margo Lanagan told Charlotte Wood in the latest of the bi-monthlyWriters Room Interviews(June, 2013). Lanagan is the author of the award-winning Sea Hearts, which was shortlisted for the inaugural ...
• 2013 ABIA winners announced
  The Australian Publishers' Association has announced the winners ofthe 2013 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA). For the second time, the awards were announced as part of the Sydney Writers' Festival. M. L. Stedman'sThe Light Between Oceanswas a triple ...
• In-Flight Entertainment
  Wildflower Hillby Kimberley Freeman has been chosen as one of 10books, ‘Stories for Every Journey’, timed to be read during 10 of Qantas's main flying routes. Hachette Australiapartnered with Sydney creative agencyDroga5 and Qantas to create ...
• SMH's Best Young Australian Novelists
  The Sydney Morning Herald'sBest Young Australian Novelists awardsfor 2013 have gone to Romy Ash (Floundering), Paul D. Carter (Eleven Seasons), Majok Tulba (Beneath the Darkening Sky), Emily Maguire (Fishing for Tigers), Ruby J. Murray (Running Dogs), and ...
• ACCELERATE Your Creative Career
  Applications are now open for this year’s ACCELERATE program, a career-building experience run by the British Council for Indigenous Australians working in creative industries. The program aims to empower its alumni with the recognition, skills and ...
• Kerryn Goldsworthy Wins the Pascall Prize
  Kerryn Goldsworthy has won the 2013 Pascall Prize for Critical Writing. The win was announced on 25 May at the Sydney Writers' Festival. Previous winners include James Bradley, Geordie Williamson, and Alison Croggon. The Pascall Prize is Australia's only ...
• Online Journal for Creative Writing Students
  Submissions are open for issues 13 and 14 of the postgraduate creative writing journal, SWAMP. The journal is hosted by the School of Humanities and Social Science at the University of Newcastle. Launched in June, 2008, SWAMP was created by creative ...
• The Sacred In Literature and the Arts - Conference
  Amanda Lohrey, novelist, essayist and winner of the 2012 Patrick White Literary Award, will be one of the keynote speakers at Addressing the Sacred through Literature and the Arts, a2013 conference organised by the Australian Catholic University. The ...

• Re: New Journal on the Block
  Thanks kindly for the announcement :)
• Re: Move Over, Dior: Here is AustLit's 'New Look'
  looks classy - I look forward to trying it out
• Re: Are You the Voice?
  Hi Zac I don't know - why not apply and see?