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Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize
The ''ABR'' Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize is an annual short fiction competition run by the ''Australian Book Review''. The Prize, with total prize money of AU$12,500 and "generating over a thousand new stories each year", is "hotly contested" and considered "one of Australia's most lucrative prizes for an original short story" on the Australian literary calendar. History The Prize was originally known as the ''ABR'' Short Story Competition when it was established in 2010; however, the ''ABR'' renamed the award "in honour of Elizabeth Jolley, and first awarded it under its new name, the ''ABR'' Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize, in 2011". The Prize accepts submissions from authors worldwide, however stories must be by a single author and written in English. Winners * 2010: Maria Takolander: "A Roānkin Philosophy of Poetry" * 2011: Carrie Tiffany: "Before He Left the Family", and Gregory Day: "The Neighbour's Beans" * 2012: Sue Hurley: "Patterns in Nature" * 2013: Michelle M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Book Review
''Australian Book Review'' is an Australian arts and literary review. Created in 1961, ''ABR'' is an independent non-profit organisation that publishes articles, reviews, commentaries, essays, and new writing. The aims of the magazine are 'to foster high critical standards, to provide an outlet for fine new writing, and to contribute to the preservation of literary values and a full appreciation of Australia's literary heritage'. History and profile ''Australian Book Review'' was established by Max Harris (poet), Max Harris and Rosemary Wighton as a monthly journal in Adelaide, Australia, in 1961. In 1971 production was reduced to quarterly releases, and lapsed completely in 1974. In 1978 the journal was revived by the National Book Council and, moving to Melbourne, began producing ten issues per year. ABR published the 400th issue of the second series in April 2018. An eleventh issue was added in 2021 (the magazine publishes a double issue in January–February). ''ABR'' is c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Jolley
Monica Elizabeth Jolley AO (4 June 1923 – 13 February 2007) was an English-born Australian writer who settled in Western Australia in the late 1950s and forged an illustrious literary career there. She was 53 when her first book was published, and she went on to publish fifteen novels (including an autobiographical trilogy), four short story collections and three non-fiction books, publishing well into her 70s and achieving significant critical acclaim. She was also a pioneer of creative writing teaching in Australia, counting many well-known writers such as Tim Winton among her students at Curtin University.Hacket (2007) Her novels explore "alienated characters and the nature of loneliness and entrapment." Life Jolley was born in Birmingham, England as Monica Elizabeth Knight, to an English father and Austrian-born mother who was the daughter of a high ranking Railways official. She grew up in the Black Country in the English industrial Midlands. She was educated privately ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Takolander
Maria Takolander, born in Melbourne in 1973, is an Australian writer of Finnish heritage. Biography Takolander graduated from Deakin University in 2003 with a PhD on magical realism. Since then she has continued to produce scholarly journal articles and book chapters in the field of magical realism, but she has also extended her research into the area of creativity studies, using neuroscientific findings to theorise how creativity works. Takolander is also an acclaimed creative writer. Her six authored book publications are: a collection of short stories, ''The Double'' (Text, 2013); a book of literary criticism, ''Catching Butterflies: Bringing Magical Realism to Ground'' (Peter Lang, 2007); and four collections of poems, ''Trigger Warning'' (UQP, 2021), ''The End of the World'' (Giramondo, 2014), ''Ghostly Subjects'' (Salt, 2009) and ''Narcissism'' (Whitmore Press, 2005). She is also co-editor of ''The Limits of Life Writing'' (Routledge, 2018). Takolander won the inaugural ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carrie Tiffany
Carrie Tiffany (born 1965) is an English-born Australian novelist and former park ranger. Biography Tiffany was born in Halifax, West Yorkshire and migrated to Australia with her family in the early 1970s. She grew up in Perth, Western Australia. In her early twenties she worked as a park ranger in Central Australia. She moved to Melbourne in 1988 where she began work as a writer, focusing mainly on agriculture. Tiffany took up writing fiction and completed a creative writing course. She completed a master's degree in Creative Writing at RMIT University and is working towards her doctorate at La Trobe University. Tiffany's debut novel, '' Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living'', was a remarkable success on its release in 2005, winning several awards and shortlisted for some major awards, including the Miles Franklin Award and the Orange Prize. Her second novel, ''Mateship with Birds'', was published in 2012, while her third novel, ''Exploded View'', was published in 2019 to cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gregory Day
Gregory Day is an Australian novelist, poet, and musician. Life Gregory Day is a novelist, poet, essayist and musician based in Victoria, Australia. He is well known for his Mangowak novels, which document generational, demographic, and environmental change on the 21st-century coast of southwest Victoria, Australia, and also for novels such as ''Archipelago of Souls'' and ''A Sand Archive'', which explore the possibilities of finding the right balance between nature and culture through investigating the experience of the Australian character abroad. He has been much acclaimed for his place-based nature essays, and also for his musical compositions and field recordings, notably his settings and singing of the poetry of William Butler Yeats on the albu''The Black Tower'' and his projec which narrates in song the building of the Great Ocean Road in southwest Victoria in the years following The Great War. Day is also the co-founder with artist and book designer, Sian Marlow, o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jennifer Down
Jennifer Down (born 1990) is an Australian novelist and short story writer. She won the 2022 Miles Franklin Award for her novel ''Bodies of Light''. Biography Down was in born 1990. She studied arts at Melbourne University before studying professional writing and editing at RMIT. Down has worked as a writer, editor, and a translator. Awards and recognition Down won the 2014 Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize for "Aokigahara" and received third prize in ''The Age'' Short Story Award for "A Ticket to Switzerland" in 2010. Down's first novel, ''Our Magic Hour'', was shortlisted for the 2014 Victorian Premier's Unpublished Manuscript Award. She was chosen as one of ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' Best Young Australian Novelists in 2017 for ''Pulse Points'' and 2018 for ''Bodies of Light''. She won the Steele Rudd Award at the Queensland Literary Awards and the Readings New Australian Fiction Prize in 2018 for ''Pulse Points''. Her 2021 novel, ''Bodies of Light'', won th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rob Magnuson Smith
Rob Magnuson Smith is a novelist, short story writer, journalist, and university lecturer. A dual citizen of the United States and the United Kingdom, Smith currently resides in Cornwall. He has a BA in philosophy and a BA in psychology from Pitzer College, an MA in creative writing from the University of East Anglia, where he won the David Higham Award, and a PhD in creative writing from Bath Spa University. Since September 2013, he has taught English and Creative Writing for the University of Exeter. Works Novels His first novel, ''The Gravedigger,'' is the story of painfully shy gravedigger Henry Bale, who falls in love with the bright, energetic, new schoolteacher, whose sudden arrival awakens and upsets his quiet life and his quiet town. ''The Gravedigger'' won the gold medal in the William Faulkner – William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition. Contest judge Andre Bernard said of the book, "To my mind there was one clear standout. In terms of characterization, plot, un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Awards Established In 2010
An award, sometimes called a distinction, is something given to a recipient as a token of recognition of excellence in a certain field. When the token is a medal, ribbon or other item designed for wearing, it is known as a decoration. An award may be described by three aspects: 1) who is given 2) what 3) by whom, all varying according to purpose. The recipient is often to a single person, such as a student or athlete, or a representative of a group of people, be it an organisation, a sports team or a whole country. The award item may be a decoration, that is an insignia suitable for wearing, such as a medal, badge, or rosette (award). It can also be a token object such as certificate, diploma, championship belt, trophy, or plaque. The award may also be or be accompanied by a title of honor, as well as an object of direct value such as prize money or a scholarship. Furthermore, an honorable mention is an award given, typically in education, that does not confer the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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