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* Contents derived from the 2016 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
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Canberra Novelist Sally Thorne's Rocket Ride,
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— Review of The Hating Game 2016 single work novel ;'Sally Thorne remembers with shining clarity the moment she realised her life was about to change in a huge way. "I remember going in to my desk at work [in the public service] and sitting down and just feeling like suddenly an escape hatch had opened in what was a pretty dry, corporate world," she says. "And I spoke to the guy next to me and I just said, 'I was given a book deal.'" ...' -
Alec Patric Wins Miles Franklin Award for Novel about Bosnian Refugees,
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'Alec Patric was only six or seven when he realised that writing was important. His mother was involved in a poetry competition between Australia and Yugoslavia and he sat holding her hand in a university lecture theatre. ...'
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The 2016 ACT Book of the Year Shortlist Has a Wide Variety of Subjects,
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'The shortlist for the 2016 ACT Book of the Year was announced on Friday at the National Library of Australia by ACT Arts Minister Chris Bourke on the first day of the inaugural Canberra Writers Festival. ...'
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Australian Writers' Festival Season in Full Bloom,
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'Writers' festival season is well underway wherever you may be in the country with the inaugural Canberra Writers Festival on this weekend ...'
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Australian Poetry for American Readers: What's New and Distinctive?,
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'Poetry is one of the pre-eminent poetry magazines in the Anglosphere. The Chicago-based magazine was founded in 1912 and in 2003 received a $100 million bequest which has consolidated its position. To have a whole issue devoted to contemporary Australian poetry is, in principle, something to celebrate. ...'
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