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Victorian Premier's Unpublished Manuscript Award
The Victorian Premier's Unpublished Manuscript Award is a literary award for an unpublished manuscript. It can be entered by any author from the Australian State of Victoria that has not published a project based on fiction. The Award was established by the State Library of Australia in 2003. In 2011 administration of the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards changed to the Wheeler Centre. As of 2017 is valued at A$15,000. Winners and shortlists {, class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible" , +Victorian Premier's Unpublished Manuscript Award winners and shortlists !Year !Author !Title !Result ! , -style=background:#cddeff !2003 , , '' Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living'' , Winner , , -style=background:#cddeff !2004 , , ''Thai Died'' , Winner , , -style=background:#cddeff !2005 , , ''I Hate Martin Amis et al.'' , Winner , , -style=background:#cddeff ! 2006 , , ''Rohypnol'' , Winner , , -style=background:#cddeff !2007 , , ''The Ghost Writer'' , Winner , , -style=backgr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards
The Victorian Premier's Literary Awards were created by the Victorian Government with the aim of raising the profile of contemporary creative writing and Australia's publishing industry. As of 2013, it is reportedly Australia's richest literary prize with the top winner receiving 125,000 and category winners 25,000 each. The awards were established in 1985 by John Cain, Premier of Victoria, to mark the centenary of the births of Vance and Nettie Palmer, two of Australia's best-known writers and critics who made significant contributions to Victorian and Australian literary culture. From 1986 till 1997, the awards were presented as part of the Melbourne Writers Festival. In 1997 their administration was transferred to the State Library of Victoria. By 2004, the total prize money was 180,000. In 2011, stewardship was taken over by the Wheeler Centre. Winners 2011–present Beginning in 2011, the awards were restructured into 5 categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Drama an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2015 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2015. Events *January 21 – The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) launches a six-part television miniseries of Hilary Mantel's Booker Prize-winning novels ''Wolf Hall'' and '' Bring Up the Bodies''. *March 8 – The BBC launches a new television series of Winston Graham's ''Poldark'' novels. *March 10 – Jacek Dukaj's cyberpunk novel ''The Old Axolotl'' is published in its original Polish version as ' as purely electronic literature including hypertext and 3D printable character models. *March 19 – Kim Thúy's novel '' Ru'' wins the 2015 edition of ''Canada Reads''. *July 7 – Jeff Lindsay releases his final novel in the "Dexter" series, writing off Dexter Morgan two years after the final episode in the television series. *c. October 14 – Start of Causeway Bay Books disappearances: Five staff of the political bookseller Causeway Bay Books in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong, go missing, appar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Guardian
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sport .... It was founded in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'', and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers ''The Observer'' and ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by the Scott Trust Limited, Scott Trust. The trust was created in 1936 to "secure the financial and editorial independence of ''The Guardian'' in perpetuity and to safeguard the journalistic freedom and liberal values of ''The Guardian'' free from commercial or political interference". The trust was converted into a limited company in 2008, with a constitution written so as to maintain for ''The Guardian'' the same protections as were built into the structure of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2023 In Literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 2023. Events Anniversaries *100th anniversary of ''Time'' *100th anniversary of ''Weird Tales'' *100th anniversary of the publication of **''Bambi, a Life in the Woods'' by Felix Salten **''The Ego and the Id'' by Sigmund Freud ** "The Good Soldier Svejk by Jaroslav Hasek(last installment) **"The Horror at Martin's Beach" by H. P. Lovecraft **"Hypnos" by H. P. Lovecraft **"The Lurking Fear" by H. P. Lovecraft **"Memory" by H. P. Lovecraft **''The Prophet'' by Kahlil Gibran **''New Hampshire'' by Robert Frost ***"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" **'' Saint Joan'' by George Bernard Shaw **''Sonnets to Orpheus'' by Rainer Maria Rilke **''Three Stories and Ten Poems'' by Ernest Hemingway **''Toward an Architecture'' by Le Corbusier **"What the Moon Brings" by H. P. Lovecraft **''Antic Hay by Aldous Huxley Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and philosopher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022 In Literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 2022. Events * 1 January – The 2022 New Year Honours List in the UK includes novelist Anthony Horowitz, cookery writer Claudia Roden and publisher Peter Usborne, all of whom receive the CBE *5 January – The Robert B. Silvers Foundation awards the inaugural Robert B. Silvers Prizes to recognize excellence in journalism, literary criticism, and arts writing *11 January – Maya Angelou becomes the first African American woman to appear on a quarter in the United States *25 January – Colm Tóibín is named the new Laureate for Irish Fiction * 22 April – The results of a survey carried out by Mayank Kejriwal and Akarsh Nagaraj at the University of Southern California's Viterbi School of Engineering, using AI, reveal evidence of gender bias in literature. * 4 May – Ram Nath Kovind becomes the first President of India to address a regional language literary event in the no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Locus Online
''Locus: The Magazine of The Science Fiction & Fantasy Field'', founded in 1968, is an American magazine published monthly in Oakland, California. It is the news organ and trade journal for the English-language science fiction and fantasy fields. It also publishes comprehensive listings of all new books published in the genres (excluding self-published). The magazine also presents the annual Locus Awards. '' Locus Online'' was launched in April 1997, as a semi-autonomous web version of ''Locus Magazine''. History Charles N. Brown, Ed Meskys, and Dave Vanderwerf founded ''Locus'' in 1968 as a news fanzine to promote the (ultimately successful) bid to host the 1971 World Science Fiction Convention in Boston, Massachusetts. Originally intended to run only until the site-selection vote was taken at St. Louiscon, the 1969 Worldcon in St. Louis, Missouri, Brown decided to continue publishing ''Locus'' as a mimeographed general science fiction and fantasy newszine. ''Locus'' succeede ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shelf Awareness
Shelf Awareness is an American publishing company that produces two electronic publications/newsletters focused on bookselling, books and book reviews. Overview With offices in Seattle, Washington, and Montclair, New Jersey, ''Shelf Awareness'' publishes an e-newsletter for the book industry and an e-newsletter for general readers. ''Shelf Awareness Pro'' is a daily trade magazine for booksellers, publishers, librarians, and literary agents with a circulation of 39,000. ''Shelf Awareness for Readers'' is a twice-weekly (Tuesdays and Fridays) book review publication for consumers with a circulation of 399,000. Approximately 130 independent bookstores send out a version of ''Shelf Awareness for Readers'' to their customers. History The company was founded by editor/journalist John Mutter (editor-in-chief) and Jenn Risko (publisher) in 2005 to produce a trade magazine for booksellers. The circulation of ''Shelf Awareness Pro'' (also called ''Shelf Awareness for the Book Trad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2021 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2021. Events *January 1 – British writer and illustrator Anthony Browne is appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2021 New Year Honours for services to literature. *September 7 – A Radio-Canada article reveals that 5,000 books from 30 French-language school libraries in Southwestern Ontario were destroyed by the Conseil scolaire catholique Providence because they included racial stereotypes relating to Indigenous peoples of the Americas. Although intended as a "gesture of reconciliation", the action meets with widespread condemnation. *October 6 – The National Assembly of France adopts new legislation mandating a minimum price on book deliveries to protect independent bookstores from e-commerce giants including Amazon and Fnac, who have circumvented a 2014 law banning the free delivery of books by offering discounted shipping at €0.01. New books Fiction ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2020 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2020. Events * April 14 – Bookshops are among the first few premises permitted to reopen on relaxation of restrictions arising from the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy. * May 26–July 10 – J. K. Rowling releases her new fairy tale ''The Ickabog'' in free online instalments during restrictions arising from the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom. * June 25 – Louisa May Alcott's unfinished "Aunt Nellie's Story" (c.1849) is first published, in '' The Strand Magazine''. * July 31 – 2020 Booker Prize longlisted (later shortlisted) author Tsitsi Dangarembga is arrested in Zimbabwe as part of a government crackdown ahead of anti-corruption protests. * August – The Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel, Germany, purchases ''Das Große Stammbuch'', an ''album amicorum'' compiled by diplomat Philipp Hainhofer, which the library's patron Augustus the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, tried but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2019. Events * February 2 – The family of the U.S. fiction writer J. D. Salinger confirm in an interview published in the U.K. newspaper ''The Guardian'' that he left a large unpublished body of work on his death in 2010, which they are preparing for publication. *April 11– 13 – Trinity College Dublin holds a three-day symposium on '' Finnegans Wake'', marking the 80th anniversary its publication. * May 10 – Simon Armitage is appointed Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom in succession to Carol Ann Duffy. * July 15 – Iris Murdoch's birthday centenary is marked in Ireland with a postage stamp based on a portrait of her. Dublin City Council unveils a plaque at Blessington Street Park, located temporarily due to renovations at her nearby birthplace, 59 Blessington Street. In the U.K., ''The Times Literary Supplement'' has her on its cover. * September 20 – Museum of Literature Ireland (M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2017 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2017. Events *March – Emulating Kerouac's '' On the Road'', Ross Goodwin drives from New York to New Orleans with an artificial intelligence device in a laptop hooked up to various sensors, whose output it turns into words printed on rolls of thermal paper; the result is published unedited as '' 1 the Road'' in 2018. *August – The Chinese crime novelist Liu Yongbiao is arrested and eventually sentenced to death for four murders committed 22 years before. * August 30 – A hard disk drive containing unfinished work by the English comic fantasy novelist Sir Terry Pratchett (died 2015) is crushed by a steamroller on his instructions. *October 5 - The Swedish Academy announce that the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to Kazuo Ishiguro. *October – Tianjin Binhai Library opens in China. *December – Kristen Roupenian's short story " Cat Person" is published in ''The New Yorker'' and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wheeler Centre
The Wheeler Centre, originally Centre of Books, Writing and Ideas, is a literary and publishing centre founded as part of Melbourne's bid to be a Unesco Creative City of Literature, which designation it earned in 2008. It is named after its patrons, Tony and Maureen Wheeler, founders of the Lonely Planet travel guides. Opened in 2010, the centre is housed in the southern wing of the State Library of Victoria. As well as programming literary events, debates and awards, the centre hosts literary organisations including Express Media, the Melbourne Writers Festival, the Melbourne City of Literature Office, Australian Poetry, the Emerging Writers' Festival, the Small Press Network and Writers Victoria. Staff and board In October 2008 the centre's board of directors was appointed including Eric Beecher (chair), Peter Biggs, Joanna Murray-Smith, Readings owner Mark Rubbo, Gabrielle Coyne and Andrew Hagger. In February 2009, Chrissy Sharp became the centre's inaugural director. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
