The ''Sydney Review of Books'' (''SRB'') is an

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literary magazine established in 2013. According to the journal's inaugural editor James Ley it was created to address shortcomings in Australian book reviews.

Awards

In 2019 ''SRB'' contributor Fiona Kelly McGregor won the Woollahra Digital Literary Award for Non-Fiction fo
her essay
on Kathleen Mary Fallon's "Working Hot". In 2019, ''SRB'' contributor Jeff Sparrow won the Walkley-Pascall Award for Arts Criticism fo
his review essay
of Behrouz Boochani's ''No Friend But The Mountains''. In 2018, ''SRB'' contributor

Delia Falconer Delia Falconer (born 1966) is an Australian novelist best known for her novel ''The Service of Clouds''. Her works have been nominated for several literary awards. Biography Falconer is the only child of two graphic designers. She studied for ...

won this award fo
an essay on writing and extinction
entitled "The Opposite of Glamour".

Editors

James Ley was the founding editor of the ''Sydney Review of Books'' (2013–2015). He was replaced by Catriona Menzies-Pike (2015–2022), while James Jiang was appointed editor in 2023.

Funding

The journal is funded by

Western Sydney University Western Sydney University, formerly the University of Western Sydney, is an Australian multi-campus public research university in the Greater Western region of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The university in its current form was founde ...

's Writing and Society Research Centre, the

Australia Council Creative Australia, formerly known as the Australia Council for the Arts and the Australia Council, is the country's official arts council, serving as an arts funding and advisory body for the Government of Australia. The council was announ ...

Create NSW Create NSW is a government agency of the Government of New South Wales, that falls within the Enterprise, Investment and Trade cluster. The agency was created on 1 April 2017 from an amalgamation of Arts NSW (ANSW) and Screen NSW. Create NSW i ...

, the Copyright Agency, Creative Victoria, Arts Queensland, Arts Tasmania, City of Sydney and Parramatta City.

References

External links

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