So now I’m judging a writing competition
With some trepidation, I recently said yes to judging a writing competition. The Grace Marion Wilson Emerging Writers Competition for short stories and creative non-fiction. Sian Prior is judging the non-fiction and Mark Brandi and I are judging the fiction. Yes, there are a lot of entries to read. Yes, the stories vary widely. And…
Interview with Bill Wilkie, author of The Daintree Blockade
Last week I reviewed The Daintree Blockade: The Battle for Australia’s Tropical Rainforests. This week Bill Wilkie, the author of that excellent book, kindly took the time to answer some questions for me. He’s also generously made a special offer to readers of this blog, Adventures in Biography. Details at the bottom of this post……
Australian National Biography Award – Shortlist Announced Today
The State Library of New South Wales (SLNSW) has announced the shortlist for the $25,000 National Biography Award. The award is administered and presented by the State Library of NSW on behalf of the award’s benefactor Mr Michael Crouch AO. The Award was established in 1996 by Dr Geoffrey Cains to encourage the highest standards…
Hilary Mantel talks about history, facts and fictions
Hilary Mantel, a novelist rightly famous for twice winning the Man Booker prize with her historical novels about Thomas Cromwell, yesterday gave the first of her three BBC Reith Lectures. In the first lecture (published here in this weekend’s The Guardian), Mantel explores the complicated relationship between history, fact and fiction. You should really go…